[Building Sakai] Newbee need help with Sakai

Thu Jun 13 03:13:12 PDT 2013

Some more feedback. I did look at the error files an so some Invalid value SQL error in there.

I did drop and recreate the Sakai database in MySQL. Ensuring that I use the correct setting for character set and everything.

Had to restart the computer because the Tomcat service was still in a status of Stopping. (You have to love Windows L) .

After restart I can see that the tables was automatically recreated without me even trying to access the site. I suppose it happen when Tomcat start.

But even trying to access http://localhost:8080/portal just hang the browser. Still the same thing and there is nothing but INTO and WARNING

Messages in the .log files. No Errors at all.

From: sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org [mailto:sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] On Behalf Of Pierre Kellerman
Sent: 13 June 2013 11:40 AM
To: sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org
Subject: Re: [Building Sakai] Newbee need help with Sakai

Thank you for the quick response Steve.

I do not have any .out file in my Tomcat folder or any other sub folders.

I do have a lot of Log files in the logs folder though.

Catalina.2013.06.11.log

Tomcat7-stdout.2013-06.11.log

For example.

Will any of them make anything to you.

Should I post them to the Group or to you personally. They are about 400K each. I do not want to people files that may be annoyed by it J.

As for the Must we use Windows. Unfortunately yes. 

Just getting our compliance department to Sign off on MySQL as backend instead of SQL server was a mission on its own.

From: Steve Swinsburg [mailto:steve.swinsburg at gmail.com] 
Sent: 13 June 2013 10:51 AM
To: Pierre Kellerman
Cc: <sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org>
Subject: Re: [Building Sakai] Newbee need help with Sakai

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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