I am quite new to cocoon, tomcat and related technologies. OS: Linux 7.1 + XWindows Java: IBMJava2-13 (JDK) Tomcat: 4.0.1 (installed via rpm) on latest Apache (1.3.23?) Cocoon: 2.0.1
1. Installed IBM JDK, created JAVA_HOME and added JAVA_HOME/bin to PATH 2. Installed tomcat, seems to run fine (including the webapps) 3. Copied cocoon.war into ...tomcat4/webapps 4. Restarted Tomcat 5. Accessed http://...../cocoon 6. Received error message - /cocoon not found Tomcat log says: 2002-02-01 17:50:37 StandardHost[localhost]: Installing web application at context path /cocoon from URL jar:file:/var/tomcat4/webapps/cocoon.war!/ 2002-02-01 17:50:37 HostConfig[localhost] Error deploying web application archive cocoon.war java.io.FileNotFoundException: /var/tomcat4/webapps/cocoon/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF (No such file or directory) at java.io.FileOutputStream.open(Native Method) at java.io.FileOutputStream.<init>(FileOutputStream.java:102) at java.io.FileOutputStream.<init>(FileOutputStream.java:62) .... .... .... (many more error messages I don't think are relevant) This problem happened on two different machines, one with and one without xwindows. I looked at the mailing list archive and couldn't find a solution, but a hint regarding the manual decompression of the war archive. So I did: 7. mkdir ...webapps/cocoon 8. chown tomcat4:tomcat4 cocoon 9. mv webapps/cocoon.war cocoon 10. jar xvf cocoon.war 11. Restarted tomcat 12. Cocoon welcome page appears (after 5 minutes ...) I feel a little insecure with this whole installation though and I hope that someone can answer a couple of questions I have and shed some light: *) Why did tomcat not extract the .war file and why can a file be missing before it's even being extracted? What is manifest good for? *) This linux box has only 128mb of ram and is running xwindows, so you can imagine that it's quite slow - is this a problem for cocoon (other than the speed, I can see that it's VERY slow) *) I still don't get why x-windows is needed, is there a simple explanation for that? *) I don't have the xerces installed, is that necessary for xml+xsl to work together? I do understand that xerces is a xml parser, so I assume that tomcat or cocoon have that builtin, otherwise the cocoon samples would not have worked, am I right? *) Does Xalan C++ do the same as Cocoon? I hope that not all of the questions are stupid ... thanks for any help in advance. Best regards, Ingmar Koecher. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please check that your question has not already been answered in the FAQ before posting. <http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/faqs.html> To unsubscribe, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
