[Building Sakai] Binary install of 2.9

[David Adams]

Hey Gregory,
Tomcat 7 is what you should be using. Luckily the switchover is relatively
simple. However, the documentation you linked to is incomplete. There's one
additional change you must make to the conf/catalina.properties file, which
is documented as Step 9 on this page:
https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/BOOT/Install+Tomcat+7. I would
recommend running Step 10 as well just to avoid the warnings you'll get
otherwise.

As for the messy state of Confluence, and why there are two complete sets
of 2.9 documentation, I sympathize. Any time I'm trying to look up
something there I find three or four outdated or incomplete pages but
almost never the right answer.

What I'm most surprised about is that the "binary" distribution of Sakai
isn't runnable as-is. Shouldn't it come with a pre-configured Tomcat, like
demo does?

David Adams
Director, Systems Integration and Support
Virginia Tech Learning Technologies


On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 7:02 AM, Gregory Guthrie <guthrie at mum.edu> wrote:

> The binary install instructions from:
>    Install Guide - Binary Install (2.9)
>
> https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=81756281
>    last edited by Margaret Wagner on May 23, 2012
> say: Install Tomcat 5.5.33
>
> But the instructions at:
>    Sakai CLE 2.9 install guide (binary)
>
> https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=82249313
>     last edited by Neal Caidin on Dec 31, 2012
> Say:
>  Install Tomcat 7.0: we recommend Tomcat 7
>  Tomcat 5.5. and earlier is no longer supported
>
> I see that although the Neal version saying T7 is newer it is filed under
> "archive/Sakai CLE 2.9 install guide (binary)" on Confluence, and the older
> one saying T5.5 is under "Release Documentation/Binary Install 2.9".
>
> We installed a 2.9 over a 2.8 which was using a tomcat 5.5, it seems to
> work in most cases, but we are getting some errors on a new webapp in
> development and wonder if it is because of this tomcat versioning.
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