[Building Sakai] Binary install of 2.9

[Gregory Guthrie]

Thanks.

I think the “binary” is to drop-in with an existing tomcat, whereas the “demo” has its own embedded tomcat.

I was mislead by the confused documentation, and then also because it does seem to run fine with the older tomcat (with the exception of what I noted below)!

Upgrading Tomcat now. Thanks again.

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From: David Adams [mailto:da1 at vt.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2013 7:35 AM
To: Gregory Guthrie
Cc: sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org
Subject: Re: [Building Sakai] Binary install of 2.9

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 Any time I'm trying to look up something there I find three or four outdated or incomplete pages but almost never the right answer.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<mailto: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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