Error starting camunda fox in community version

[zeon]

Hi activiti community,

I am urgently needing camunda fox running for studies purposes. I have a rather basic problem with the tool, I hope you let me get away posting in this forum, since I didn't find an user support specifically for camunda fox in the community edition.

So, first question, does someone know of a fox-specific user support forum/FB group or something like this? If there is, I will put my problem there.

My problem concerns the installation of camunda fox. I try to get camunda fox version 1.26.0 running on a Win Server 2008 R2. After having extracted the zip file on the server, I switch to the prompt console (Win-> Start -> in prompt console) and switch to the directory where I extracted the zip file. Further navigating to the "\fox-platform[…]\server\jboss-as[…]\bin".There, I start the standalone.bat. At this point, I receive different reactions on three Windows systems.

On the aforementioned Win Server, in the Power Shell, there appears a message stating that "the command standalone.bat was not found, yet it is exisiting in the current place". I am recommended to try ".\standalone.bat" instead. Doing this, the system tells me that BOSS_HOME (referring to the JBoss-Server) may point to a different location and problems may occur. Nothing happens then.

On Windows 7 and Win XP, always the "standalone.conf.bat" instead of the standalone.bat ist supposedly called, again with no reaction.

I suspect that this problem may be based on a Java error, because without Java installed, the prompt windows tells me after the "standalone" excution that the JAVA variables are not set but a lot of initialation infos are there in the prompt console.

I reinstalled Java on all three machines in different versions and I think I'm setting the OS variables right, but the problem still persists.

Can anyone at least tell me where (Windows configuration, Java installation…) the problem may supposedly lie?

Thanks in advance

[bernd_ruecker]

Hi Jens.

Actually you are right, there is no separate forum for fox (yet). But I am glad to answer here 🙂

You for sure need Java installed. Afterwards starting the standalone.bat should be exactly right and work without problem. Sometimes if you install it in a sub directory with a too long name you might get an exception when extracting the zip file (for too long file names), but if the extraction works without erros there should be no show stopper at all.

Could you just double click on "standalone.bat"? Could you paste the exact output here?

You can as well search the JBoss AS 7 forum if you want (or post there), as we ship the community edition with a default JBoss AS 7.1.0.

Cheers
Bernd

[zeon]

First of all, thanks for your answer.

I still have the problem, after double- and triple-checking the installation paths of Java and camunda. There still might be an error, after all.

So I made a screenshot demonstrating the Windows Power Shell with the error and all the important OS system variables fitting in one screenshot. If needed, I'll give more details on the systems configuration.

[img]http://img833.imageshack.us/img833/7427/camundafoxinstallatione.th.png[/img]

I guess all non-german speakers could see into the problem as well, despite my german Win Server installation..

I will now look into the possibility of a problem with JBoss, thanks for pointing to that.

Regards

[bernd_ruecker]

Can you remove the "JBOSS_HOME" variable? Actually it should not be necessary (and personally I do not have that on my machine).

Could you try to start up a vanilla JBoss from here and try to startup this one: http://www.jboss.org/jbossas/downloads/. Does that work or do you have the same problem?

Ah, and I tried with the Powershell, there I get a comparable error if I just do:
  C:\fox\demopoint\fox-platform-jboss7\bin> standalone.bat
I have to do:
  C:\fox\demopoint\fox-platform-jboss7\bin> .\standalone.bat

So the leading ".\" seems to be important there but not in the normal Windows shell. Learned something new today 😉

[ronald_van_kuij]

Can you remove the "JBOSS_HOME" variable? Actually it should not be necessary (and personally I do not have that on my machine).

It could even screw things up if by accident it points to a wrong server

[zeon]

I removed the JBOSS_Home OS variable and downloaded JBoss as a standalone download. But I have the same problem with JBoss as with fox. You can see it in this screenshot:

http://img864.imageshack.us/img864/5687/jbossstandaloneerror.png

(Thumnail wouldn't work this time…)

Thanks for helping already, I will now dig deeper into JBoss to find out the error.

Regards

Jens

[bernd_ruecker]

Hi Jens.

THis is strange. This must be a pretty low level configuration problem, I guess related more to windows / Java as to JBoss or fox. Sorry that I cannot be a bigger help.

Good luck and cheers
Bernd