Install problems

[rowan_bradley]

I've run the Activiti setup process using ant demo.start, and it said it had completed successfully, but none of the web pages that it tried to open worked. They all gave "cannot display the web page". I know next to nothing about the technology behind this stuff, so I don't know where to start in debugging this. Can someone suggest how to set about getting this working?

Here's the output of the Ant script:

C:\Users\Rowan2\Downloads\activiti-5.2\setup>ant demo.start
Buildfile: C:\Users\Rowan2\Downloads\activiti-5.2\setup\build.xml

demo.install:

internal.classpath.libs:

internal.taskdef.launch:

h2.start:
   [launch] launching cmd 'C:\Users\Rowan2\Downloads\activiti-5.2\apps\h2\h2.sta
rt.bat ' in dir 'C:\Users\Rowan2\Downloads\activiti-5.2\apps\h2'
   [launch] waiting for launch completion msg 'TCP server running on'…
   [launch]   TCP server running on tcp://192.168.0.67:9092 (others can connect)


tomcat.start:
   [launch] launching cmd 'C:\Users\Rowan2\Downloads\activiti-5.2\apps\apache-to
mcat-6.0.29\bin\startup.bat ' in dir 'C:\Users\Rowan2\Downloads\activiti-5.2\app
s\apache-tomcat-6.0.29\bin'
   [launch] waiting for launch completion msg 'Using CLASSPATH:'…
   [launch]   Using CATALINA_BASE:   "C:\Users\Rowan2\Downloads\activiti-5.2\app
s\apache-tomcat-6.0.29"
   [launch]   Using CATALINA_HOME:   "C:\Users\Rowan2\Downloads\activiti-5.2\app
s\apache-tomcat-6.0.29"
   [launch]   Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: "C:\Users\Rowan2\Downloads\activiti-5.2\app
s\apache-tomcat-6.0.29\temp"
   [launch]   Using JRE_HOME:        "C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_07"
   [launch]   Using CLASSPATH:       "C:\Users\Rowan2\Downloads\activiti-5.2\app
s\apache-tomcat-6.0.29\bin\bootstrap.jar"

explorer.browser.open:

demo.start:

BUILD SUCCESSFUL
Total time: 26 seconds

C:\Users\Rowan2\Downloads\activiti-5.2\setup>

I would have attached the output of the Tomcat window except that I couldn't find an extension that the forum would accept - it rejected .log, .txt, .xxx and no extension.

I'm using Windows 7 and IE8.

Thanks - Rowan

[jbarrez]

Then I'm practically out of ideas I'm afraid ….

Its very bizarre that it worked one time and now it doesnt. Something surely must have changed. I would try to backup your process files, and reinstall the demo setup, and copy back your process files.

[rowan_bradley]

It was me being stupid. I'd forgotten that it won't work with IE. In Firefox it's fine.

Sorry to have asked a stupid question!

Rowan

[jbarrez]

lol. No prob, rather that then a real bug 🙂

[lemairea1]

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to install activity but I can't find this demo.start file…
It looks like it should be in the setup folder of the activity package but there are just a fiew build.* files, is there something I missunderstood ? Where is this damn file !! ^^

thanks,
Antoine

[alvinbush]

hi,

there is no file called demo.start

demo.start is the name of the ant target.

where ant is the building tool used by activiti and the target demo.start is configured in the bild.xml configuratio file

all you need is install ant and call ant demo.start

HTH,

Alvin

[#7]

i'm having a same problem that rowan.bradley
but isn't working on any browser..

someone help me?

greetings

[ronald_van_kuij]

So you are *not* having the same problem, since for him it worked on firefox 😉 what version are you using?

[#9]

i'm using the version 5.5

greetings