[Building Sakai] Newbee need help with Sakai

[Steve Swinsburg]

Hi Pierre,

Assuming version 2.9+ of Sakai then the versions of those tools is fine.
For the URL, try adding /portal, you need that to access the UI of Sakai. If that does not work, can you post the catalina.out log file? I am not 100% sure if that is created on windows though. Is it a requirement that you use Windows?

Regards,
Steve

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On 13/06/2013, at 18:32, "Pierre Kellerman" <PKellerman at realpeople.co.za> wrote:

> Good day all.
> I am Pierre Kellerman and am totally new to Sakai.
>  
> The company I am working for is considering using Sakai as their Student portal. And I was tasked to get the site up and running to run a pilot server.
> We will be using a Windows Server, Apache Tomcat and a MySQL database.
> I am new to Java and Apache Tomcat. But know MySQL very well.
> I found a walk through at.
> https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/BOOT/Development+Environment+Setup+Walkthrough
>  
> And followed it although I do have some differences.
> I have Java 1.7.0_21 Installed
> I have MySQL 5.5.25 Installed
> I managed to get Maven 3.0.5 installed (This is new for me)
> I have SVN 1.7.8 Installed (Struggled a bit but got the proxy settings going)
> I have Tomcat 7.0 Installed. The Windows Service Version. And even though this is totally new for me managed to get the Tomcat sample going. I also experimented with some Simple JSP pages just to proof to myself That I understand the Tomcat way of doing things.
>  
> Like I said I followed the walkthrough closely but with the versions that I have that may be newer that that the Walkthrough was created with.
>  
> I have two problems.
> I cannot run “mvn –Pcafe clean install” it keep failing saying that there is a problem in the POM file and the project Portal cannot be found.
>  
> I eventually gave up and used “mvn clean install” instead. This failed a couple of times but eventually ran through fine.
> Then I ran “mvn sakai:deploy” that also worked fine. The next step is to check that sakai is properly installed.
> When I go to my URL http://localhost:8080, the browser just hangs. I can see that the sakai files is deployed to the Tomcat server.
> And when I connect to my MySql database I can even see that tables have been created in the database. But Sakai never starts. Also I try to stop the Topcat Service and if fail (do not want to stop) what can be wrong, where do I start trouble shouting. I am struggling for days now with this, and hope someone can assist me in getting this site up and running so I can continue with the next step of getting the development environment going.
> O BTW I have the source for Sakai 2.9 version.
>  
> I know this is a long tedious mail. Hopefully someone out there is willing to assist me in this undertaking.
>  
> From Pierre Kellerman
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