[Building Sakai] Newbee need help with Sakai

[Adrian Fish]

Hi Pierre,

Have you tried going to http://localhost:8080/portal ?

You need to look at the log file catalina.out in the logs directory under your tomcat installation. That should hopefully have some useful output.

Cheers,
Adrian. 

On Thu, 13 Jun 2013 10:32:07 +0200, "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+Set
> up+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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