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Signavio Modeler does not start / Problems with Demo Setup

frauke — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 10:03:37 GMT

Hello everybody,with Activity 5.0 the Modeler does not start. I am a Windows user with Firefox.The Modeler displays a white page with the Tab-Title 'Explore|Signavio' and thats it.I started the Tomcat using the demo setup.Activiti Explorer and Activiti Probe start correctly, but I am not able to log

Re: Signavio Modeler does not start / Problems with Demo Setup

frederikherema1 — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 10:05:12 GMT

Looks like something went wrong when starting tomcat.

Can you check your catalina.out log for errors while starting spring-context in webapp-rest?

Re: Signavio Modeler does not start / Problems with Demo Setup

unknown-user — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 16:04:08 GMT

Hi,

I've got exactly the same problem.

The catalina log file does not show any exception.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Markus

Re: Signavio Modeler does not start / Problems with Demo Setup

unknown-user — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 16:19:44 GMT

Hi,

It works however with Activiti 5.0 RC1…

Thanks,
Markus

Re: Signavio Modeler does not start / Problems with Demo Setup

pault — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 16:59:42 GMT

I am using Windows and Firefox and mine does work.

I notice in the screen shot in the original post you are using port 8180. I'm using the default 8080, could it be a configuration issue related to that ?

Re: Signavio Modeler does not start / Problems with Demo Setup

frauke — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 07:25:22 GMT

No, its not a configuration problem of the port.
Then you would not get a Signavio titled page at all.
And with RC1 it worked - like Markus stated - and there I was using port 8180 too.

Thanks anyway for your hints!

Frauke

Re: Signavio Modeler does not start / Problems with Demo Setup

pault — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 08:56:08 GMT

Yes, very much a hint as I am new to the system.

But I did notice that there had been fixes/changes relating to URL handling and authentication (ACT 255 & 274). So just wondered if that might change the configuration requirements when switching from 8080.

Or might give some other clue.

Paul.

Re: Signavio Modeler does not start / Problems with Demo Setup

saatsch — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 14:59:16 GMT

Maybe you should take a look at

activiti\apps\apache-tomcat-6.0.29\webapps\activiti-modeler\WEB-INF\classes\configuration.properties

I had to adjust that, when I started tomcat on a port other than 8080.

Greets
Saatsch

Re: Signavio Modeler does not start / Problems with Demo Setup

unknown-user — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 14:47:45 GMT

Hi all,

it has nothing to do with the port.

Doesn't work even on port 8080… :cry:

Regards,
Markus

Re: Signavio Modeler does not start / Problems with Demo Setup

unknown-user — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 11:15:39 GMT

Hi all,

Has been resolved in Activiti 5.1. Thanks guys!

Markus

Re: Signavio Modeler does not start / Problems with Demo Setup

frauke — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 12:51:28 GMT

Hi everybody,

with my new Activiti 5.1 installation I still had the same problem.
But I finally managed to solve it:

The activiti-modeler-5.1.war was not unpacked completely by the demo setup and many files were just missing. After I unpacked it manually into the webapps directory, it worked.

Frauke

Re: Signavio Modeler does not start / Problems with Demo Setup

jbarrez — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 08:56:44 GMT

That's very strange, since the unpacking is done by just calling the ant 'unzip' action.
Do you happen to have a trace of running the bad demo setup?

Re: Signavio Modeler does not start / Problems with Demo Setup

frauke — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 10:11:43 GMT

I tried to reproduce it with tracing, but today it worked fine!
The unpacking of the activiti-modeler-5.1.war is done by Tomcat. I don't understand this either.

Re: Signavio Modeler does not start / Problems with Demo Setup

jbarrez — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 08:56:38 GMT

Let's blame cosmic radition on your hard disk … until we find out what really went wrong 😉

Re: Signavio Modeler does not start / Problems with Demo Setup

frauke — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 10:06:50 GMT

It MUST be that!
I am VERY experienced in deploying web applications with Tomcat, there can't be any other reason! :lol:

Re: Signavio Modeler does not start / Problems with Demo Setup

tschernonoll — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 16:14:15 GMT

Hi all have the same Problem.
May be my description helps to solve it:

i use a mysql database,
on a ubuntu 10.10
with the activiti 5.1 version
After running ant demo.start the explorer.browser.start opens successive all the applications.
Also the modeler and its working.
But when i quit the browser and finish the ant script, the modeler is blank from now on.

Frauke can you please give a manual to your workaround ?

kind regards

Re: Signavio Modeler does not start / Problems with Demo Setup

frauke — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 16:26:19 GMT

1) Shutdown Tomcat

2) Find activiti-modeler.war.
It should be located it your Tomcat webapps directory, were the demo setup copied it to:
<Your Activiti Installation>\apps\apache-tomcat-6.0.29\webapps

3) Open the war file with WinZip (or any similar tool and) extract the content into the webapps\activiti-modeler directory of your Tomcat.

4) Confirm overwrite with 'yes to all' … or whatever

5) Restart Tomcat

Re: Signavio Modeler does not start / Problems with Demo Setup

tschernonoll — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 16:49:58 GMT

thanks for the fast answer, but found something out.
I think its not the problem with the installation it has something to do with the url

if i use localhost its not working but when i use 127.0.0.1 its working fine.

also with manuel unpacked war arcive its not working with localhost.

Re: Signavio Modeler does not start / Problems with Demo Setup

tschernonoll — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 14:51:49 GMT

Found out that also the activiti explorer has problems here.
it seems there are some problems with the localhost url. if i use the loopback or direct ip adress it works fine also on an external server.

btw. i'm using a mysql db and phpmyadmin to access the db. may be the localhost problem comes from the second webserver ?

Re: Signavio Modeler does not start / Problems with Demo Setup

frauke — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 07:19:45 GMT

May be, but in my installation it really was the unpacking problem!
I've never had any problems with 'localhost' in the URL.