Activiti 5.9 and Tomcat already installed

[castelnau1]

Hi all,

I introduce myself, I'm French and I apologize for my bad English.
I am new user of Activiti, I use a distribution KUbuntu 10.04 with a LAMP server installed.
My server is Tomcat version 6.0.29 and is installed under / var/lib/tomcat6

I have a small technical issue regarding the installation of Activiti 5.9.

I can well launch Activiti Activiti from the directory, except that what bothers me is that it requires its own server Tomcat!
Besides the first launch, there is a download Tomcat …

What I want is to use my existing Tomcat instance.
I have an Apache / Tomcat for running Alfresco, vtiger, Phpmyadmin, and I want to kick you can use it to launch Activiti.

Problem I can not find the solution!
How to qu'Activiti his spear with my tomcat server 6.0.29

Do you have an idea on this?

I hope I was clear enough

Thank you for your help

[trademak]

Hi,

I don't really get your question.
You can run the Activiti Engine in every environment. It's even really easy to get it started in a unit test for example.
To get the Activiti Engine running on your own Tomcat instance, you can just copy the activiti-explorer.war for example.

Best regards,

[castelnau1]

Hello and thank you for your reply,

I stopped my Tomcat server and copied the directories:

- Activiti-explorer.war
- Activiti-rest.war

in my directory / var/lib/tomcat6/webapps.

I renamed the two directories:

- Activiti-explorer.war  in : Activiti-explorer
- Activiti rest.war in : Activiti-rest

I restart my Tomcat server but when I connect from my browser at:

http://localhost:8080/activiti-explorer/

I have the following message: HTTP Status 404 - requested resource is not available.

Have I missed a step?

greetings

[mahmut]

Hi,
I guess you get a 404 because startup of the applications fail. Activiti needs a connection to a database, so just have a look e.g. for activiti-explorer
to /activiti-explorer/WEB-INF/classes/db.properties and enter valid connection parameters.

Regards

[castelnau1]

Hello,

I succeeded in setting Activiti deploying Tomcat in my own instance.
The setup of the connection file to MYSQL database posaitn problem actually.

Thank you again for your help.

cordially

[benkunz]

Hi castelnau,
I'm having the exact same problem as you, except I dont use mysql but h2. Could you explain in details how you managed to deploy activiti explorer to your already existing install of tomact ?
Thanks