[Deploying Sakai] tomcat not working properly

Matthew De Leon smidwap at gmail.com
Wed Jan 13 10:51:34 PST 2010


Thanks Kevin. I ran netstat -an and I got

: : : 9090

where the IP address should be. No IP address was displayed. Is this a
non-issue?

Matt

On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 1:30 PM, Kevin P. Foote <kpfoote at iup.edu> wrote:

>
> Matthew -
>
> If accessing in that manor (from your desktop) you will need to verify
> that the server is accepting traffic to that port and thus the
> apache/tomcat instance you have up.
>
> You can run netstat -an on the CLI to view whats accepting. Look at the
> first table. Should be something like below where nnn is your servers
> IP.
>
> tcp        0      0 ::ffff:nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn:8080  :::* LISTEN
>
> You can also use lsof -Pni to reveal open ports on this (assuming linux)
> which would show something like this
>
> java    28468    sak  104u  IPv6 1821684       TCP *:8443 (LISTEN)
>
>
> If you don't have stuff like that displayed with your port in question
> (9090) then check your iptables config
>
>
> ------
> thanks
>  kevin.foote
>
> On Wed, 13 Jan 2010, Matthew De Leon wrote:
>
> -> Quick update: I might be slightly misleading everyone :p. I'm not
> accessing
> -> the pages via localhost but the VM's IP. In other word's, the page is
> timing
> -> out when I attempt to access http://ip_address:9090/portal. This is
> -> necessary because I only have access to the VM via shell. But, I thought
> it
> -> would be interesting to see what the VM itself sees when accessing via
> -> localhost, so I ran
> ->
> -> wget http://localhost:9090/portal
> ->
> -> and it retrieved the appropriate file. So now it looks as though tomcat
> is
> -> inaccessible only remotely. Any thoughts on what might be causing this?
> I'm
> -> now uncertain if this is a tomcat issue or a server issue that is
> -> independent of sakai/tomcat.
> ->
> -> Thanks,
> -> Matt
> ->
> -> On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Matthew De Leon <smidwap at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> ->
> -> > Thanks for the quick response, Steve. I've been working with the log
> file
> -> > for some time now trying to find the root of the problem, and after
> fixing a
> -> > couple issues (including changing the port from 8080 to 9090 and
> increasing
> -> > memory usage for java through JAVA_OPTS), I am once again stuck. I've
> -> > attached my log file.
> -> >
> -> > I've perused the log files and examined any WARN and ERROR messages
> that
> -> > appeared. None of them point to anything obviously wrong with my
> -> > installation and configuration. The only symptom I'm finding now is
> that
> -> > http://localhost:9090 isn't loading. In fact, the last few lines in
> the
> -> > log file are:
> -> >
> -> > 2010-01-13 10:38:59,603  INFO main
> org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina -
> -> > Server startup in 227976 ms
> -> > 2010-01-13 10:42:18,774  INFO Timer-2
> -> > org.sakaiproject.email.impl.BasicEmailService - Preparing to send the
> mail
> -> > digests for 20100113060000000]20100114060000000
> -> > 2010-01-13 10:43:48,710  WARN SakaiClusterService.Maintenance
> -> > org.sakaiproject.cluster.impl.SakaiClusterService - run():
> ghost-busting
> -> > server: localhost-1263399544288 from : localhost-1263400536809
> -> >
> -> > which look promising. I was able to successfully install the demo on
> my
> -> > local windows machine and this is similar to the messages I received
> before
> -> > tomcat began to operate properly.
> -> >
> -> > Thoughts? Any help is appreciated.
> -> >
> -> > Matt
> -> >
> -> >
> -> > On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 9:51 PM, Steve Swinsburg <
> -> > steve.swinsburg at gmail.com> wrote:
> -> >
> -> >> Hi Matthew,
> -> >>
> -> >> When you startup, the log should be available in
> -> >> /opt/tomcat/logs/catalina.out
> -> >>
> -> >> In a separate terminal window/tab, if you issue 'tail
> -> >> -f opt/tomcat/logs/catalina.out' as a command (without the ') then
> you'll
> -> >> see the log messages fly past. Check this for any exceptions or error
> -> >> messages, or just attach it here and we can take a look. However,
> delete the
> -> >> old one, then start Sakai again and send a fresh one so it doesn't
> contain
> -> >> multiple startups.
> -> >>
> -> >> Also, make sure you aren't running anything on port 8080 already? Run
> -> >> 'netstat' and check the first table for the ports that are up, see if
> 8080
> -> >> is amongst them.
> -> >>
> -> >> cheers,
> -> >> Steve
> -> >>
> -> >>
> -> >>
> -> >> On 13/01/2010, at 1:27 PM, Matthew De Leon wrote:
> -> >>
> -> >> Hi all,
> -> >>
> -> >> I am new to Sakai and I'm in the process of trying to install it for
> the
> -> >> first time (from the binary). I'm not an even a mildly experienced
> system
> -> >> administrator but nevertheless I've been charged with bringing this
> baby to
> -> >> fruition.
> -> >>
> -> >> I followed the iinstallation nstructions very closely each step of
> the
> -> >> way, but I've now encountered a roadblock: http://localhost:8080isn't
> -> >> loading. Furthermore, http://localhost:4848 isn't loading either,
> which
> -> >> supposedly is an online console for java? (Not sure if this matters
> or not.)
> -> >> Anyways, my only lead so far is an error I am receiving when running
> -> >> shutdown.sh in tomcat/bin. Here's a brief excerpt of the error I get:
> -> >>
> -> >> Error main org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina - Catalina.stop:
> -> >> java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused
> -> >>
> -> >> ......followed by a series of similar messages, like:
> -> >>
> -> >> at java.net.PlainSocketImp1.socketConnect(Native Method)
> -> >>
> -> >> The error is proceeded by this output:
> -> >>
> -> >> Using CATALINA_BASE: /opt/tomcat
> -> >> Using CATALINA_HOME: /opt/tomcat
> -> >> Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /opt/tomcat/temp
> -> >> Using JRE_HOME: /usr/java/jre1.5.0_22
> -> >> Using CLASSPATH: /opt/tomcat/bin/bootstrap.jar
> -> >>
> -> >> Any thoughts on where I should look for mistakes in installations?
> This is
> -> >> the only evidence I have so far of things going awry; besides that
> error
> -> >> everything seems ok (including tomcat on startup). But, again, 8080
> is not
> -> >> loading.
> -> >>
> -> >> Thank you in advance. Let me know if more information is needed.
> -> >>
> -> >> Matt
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