[sakai-core-team] Documentation - Tomcat 7

[Steve Swinsburg]

I'm happy to do some of this for Sakai 11, but in github. I have some ideas
around simplifying this.


On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 12:11 AM, Neal Caidin <neal.caidin at apereo.org>
wrote:

> I've removed  - "If you're running the tag of Sakai 2.9.1 or earlier you
> need to be running Tomcat 7.0.21 or earlier. If you go any higher Webdav
> and Sitestats will have errors and not work."
>
>
> I'm afraid if I try and simplify so close to the release, I could easily
> make editing areas and miss the configuration issues which are important. I
> can give it a shot after the release or if you want to make the
> simplifications yourself, please feel free.
>
> Thanks,
> Neal
>
>
>
>   Steve Swinsburg <steve.swinsburg at gmail.com>
>  June 13, 2014 at 4:48 PM
> No longer true, the issue were fixed 15-18 months ago. They are linked
> from that page.
>
> Also, as discussed at the PMC meeting, the instructions are far too wordy.
> We do not need to explain to people how to install other bits of software,
> unless we require specific configuration.
>
> System requirements:
> Tomcat 7 (the latest version)
> Maven 3
> Subversion 1.6
>
> A note about setting JAVA_OPTS
> A note about setting up server.xml
> A note about the catalina.properties
>
> Checkout source
> Build it via this command...
> Start Tomcat.
>
> Done.
>
> Flesh out where needed.
>
> We then have HOWTO pages about configuring Sakai for a different database,
> setting up LDAP). I am looking forward to the git move where the above can
> be in the readme.MD and we have a docs directory full of versioned HOWTO
> pages about certain things. At least that is the dream.
>
> This is for the overall install guide. I do note that that particular page
> that you link to is a page on installing tomcat, which is fine, but can be
> trimmed considerably.
>
> cheers,
> Steve
>
>
>
>
>   Neal Caidin <neal.caidin at apereo.org>
>  June 13, 2014 at 1:18 PM
> This page about Tomcat 7 needs review with respect to Sakai 10
>
> https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/BOOT/Install+Tomcat+7
>
> It is called by
> https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/DOC/Sakai+10+and+later+System+Requirements
>
> Examples:
>
> "If you're running the tag of Sakai 2.9.1 or earlier you need to be
> running Tomcat 7.0.21 or earlier. If you go any higher Webdav and Sitestats
> will have errors and not work."
>
> Is that still true?
>
> Is UTF-8 still the right encoding?
>
> Configure tomcat 7 to use the old tomcat 5.5 classloader dirs?
>
> That sort of thing.
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
> --
> Neal Caidin
> Sakai Community Coordinator
> Apereo Foundation
> neal.caidin at apereo.org
> Skype me! (but let me know in advance for the first interaction) - nealkdin
>
>
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