[Building Sakai] Build from source - which tomcat versions are allowed?

[Matthew Jones]

The version we define in master for that tag is the version we'd done QA
last on. This version isn't changed any more often than once a minor
release since we have to put various binaries and jars into our local
repository, often things break from the tomcat upgrade and we and do
regression testing to find issues like that one.

The only break I know of in tomcat 7 was between 7.0.34 and 7.0.35 that
caused sitestas - SAK-339 and webdav - SAK-23156. So if you want to run a
newer tomcat you have to at least be on 2.9.2. If you're earlier
(2.9.1/2.9.0) you have to be running tomcat 7.0.34 or earlier or upgrade
these tools.

For instance in the 2.9.1 master
https://source.sakaiproject.org/svn/master/tags/master-2.9.1/pom.xml
<sakai.tomcat.version> is 7.0.21 so that's near the highest you can run (or
you'll hit errors like this sitestats one)

The latest 2.9.x is still on 7.0.39, the same as 2.9.2. But I haven't heard
of any other breaking changes other than those in 7.0.35 that should
prevent you from being on the latest if you're on 2.9.3 or 2.9.x.

Currently for 10 it looks like we're at 7.0.42, but I think we'd look to
upgrading that to the latest 7.0.x and doing QA on the most recent version
before release prior to release of 10. (
https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-25777)


On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 9:13 AM, Gregory Guthrie <guthrie at mum.edu> wrote:

> I just finished a new source build (Sakai 2.9, Tomcat 7.0.52), and got a
> few errors, and it indicates (correctly) that sitestats did not load
> properly (it does not work).
> It looks like:   "STAT-339 - Sitestats does not load with Tomcat 7.0.35",
> but that is marked as fixed in JIRA.
> I couldn't tell if the note about not using Tomcat above .21 was still
> valid since both issues listed were indicated as fixed, so I went ahead and
> used the current tomcat (.52), which apparently fails. What is the
> situation - does the tomcat version limit still apply?
>
> (PS: on the "2.9 Install from source" page, for setting up the database
> for MySQL it says:
>    " Click the "Configure" tab above for instructions on setting up Sakai
> to use MySQL or Oracle."
>    But I see no such link/tab in the page - and had to go out and chat
> with Google to find that information.)
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> INFO: Deploying web application archive
> /opt/sakai/apache-tomcat-7.0.52/webapps/sitestats-tool.war
> Feb 22, 2014 11:17:27 PM org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.Digester
> endElement
> SEVERE: End event threw exception
> java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
>         at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor135.invoke(Unknown Source)
>         at
> sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
>         ...
> Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: The servlets named
> [sakai.sitestats] and [sakai.sitestats.admin] are both mapped to the
> url-pattern [/sitestats-tool/*] which is not permitted
>         at
> org.apache.catalina.deploy.WebXml.addServletMapping(WebXml.java:292)
>         ... 36 more
>
> Feb 22, 2014 11:17:27 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig
> parseWebXml
> SEVERE: Parse error in application web.xml file at
> jndi:/localhost/sitestats-tool/WEB-INF/web.xml
> java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: The servlets named [sakai.sitestats]
> and [sakai.sitestats.admin] are both mapped to the url-pattern
> [/sitestats-tool/*] which is not permitted
>         at
> org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.Digester.createSAXException(Digester.java:2711)
>         ...
>         ... 30 more
> Feb 22, 2014 11:17:27 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig
> parseWebXml
> SEVERE: Occurred at line 71 column 23
> Feb 22, 2014 11:17:27 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig
> configureStart
> SEVERE: Marking this application unavailable due to previous error(s)
> Feb 22, 2014 11:17:27 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext
> startInternal
> SEVERE: Error getConfigured
> Feb 22, 2014 11:17:27 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext
> startInternal
> SEVERE: Context [/sitestats-tool] startup failed due to previous errors
> Feb 22, 2014 11:17:27 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployWAR
> ...
> INFO: Server startup in 302988 ms
> Feb 22, 2014 11:17:42 PM org.apache.tomcat.util.http.Cookies
> processCookieHeader
> INFO: Cookies: Invalid cookie. Value not a token or quoted value
>  Note: further occurrences of Cookie errors will be logged at DEBUG level.
> ...
> Feb 23, 2014 6:58:06 AM org.apache.jasper.compiler.TldLocationsCache
> tldScanJar
> INFO: At least one JAR was scanned for TLDs yet contained no TLDs. Enable
> debug logging for this logger for a complete list of JARs that were scanned
> but no TLDs were found in them. Skipping unneeded JARs during scanning can
> improve startup time and JSP compilation time.
>
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