Hi , Thanks for the steps.This would really eliminate troubles to add the custom prop file manually. :)
regards. On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 10:12 AM, oscontrib oscontrib <[email protected]>wrote: > Since my hosting provider supports Tomcat/MySQL, I got roller (from trunk) > to build a war that deploys out of the box on Tomcat. Here are the steps I > followed. I hope its useful to others. I had to tweak the pom.xml under the > weblogger-webapp directory and my pom.xml is attached. The differences are > minor and highlighted in the docs.. I checked the instructions a couple of > times and it worked for me on my Ubuntu. > > Building and installing roller from trunk but customized for Tomcat/MySQL > > Prerequisites : Make sure you have java JDK (I use 1.6) and maven installed > on your box. > > > 1) Check out the top of trunk into a roller directory > svn co https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/roller/trunk roller > > > > 2) Make sure the roller-custom.properties file gets bundled into the war. > Instead of copying the war over into Tomcat's webapps directory and then > exploding it manually, copying jar files and copying the properties file, I > use the following technique to build the final war directly. > > > 2.a) mkdir -p roller/weblogger-webapp/src/main/resources > 2.b) Create the file > roller/weblogger-webapp/src/main/resources/roller-custom.properties with the > following contents (change the username/password based on what you want to > use). > > > I have attached my version of the file with this email. > > ## roller-custom.properties begin > installation.type=auto > > database.configurationType=jdbc > database.jdbc.driverClass=com.mysql.jdbc.Driver > > > database.jdbc.connectionURL=jdbc:mysql://localhost/rollerdb > database.jdbc.username=roller_user > database.jdbc.password=password > > mail.configurationType=properties > mail.hostname=localhost > ## roller-custom.properties end > > > 2.c) Change the pom.xml file to make mail.jar not a 'provided' jar (since > Tomcat doesnt ship a mail.jar in its distribution and we can get maven to > download it for us), add the mysql-connector.jar as a dependency . I didnt > add activation.jar but usually if you need to send attachments and stuff in > the emails it could be added as well. (the pom.xml I use is attached along > with this email). > > > <dependency> > <groupId>javax.mail</groupId> > <artifactId>mail</artifactId> > </dependency> > > <dependency> > <groupId>mysql</groupId> > > > <artifactId>mysql-connector-java</artifactId> > <version>5.1.11</version> > </dependency> > > 2.d) Also change pom.xml to copy over the > src/main/resources/roller-custom.properties into the war (add another > execution element to the executions element under the maven-resources-plugin > (refer to attached pom.xml file) > > > <execution> > <id>copy-custom-roller-props</id> > <phase>process-resources</phase> > <goals> > > > <goal>copy-resources</goal> > </goals> > <configuration> > > <outputDirectory>${project.build.directory}/roller/WEB-INF/classes/</outputDirectory> > > > <resources> > <resource> > <directory>src/main/resources</directory> > <filtering>false</filtering> > > > <includes> > <include>**/*.properties</include> > </includes> > </resource> > > > </resources> > </configuration> > </execution> > > 3) Build the project > > cd roller > mvn clean install > > 4) cp weblogger-webapp/target/roller.war ${TOMCAT_HOME}/webapps > > > 5) Set up your mysql database (in example below we create a database called > rollerdb, with user 'roller_user' and password 'password', because thats we > configured in roller-custom.properties in step 2.b ) > > > $> mysql -u root -p > Enter password: > Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g. > Your MySQL connection id is 214 > Server version: 5.1.37-1ubuntu5.5 (Ubuntu) > > Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the current input statement. > > > mysql> create database rollerdb; > Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec) > > mysql> grant all on rollerdb.* to 'roller_user'@'%' identified by 'password'; > Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec) > > > mysql> grant all on rollerdb.* to 'roller_user'@'localhost' identified by > 'password'; > Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec) > > mysql> quit; > > > 6) Start tomcat .. and you are good to go if you point your browser to the > 'roller' context. > > > ${TOMCAT_HOME}/bin/startup.sh > > Hitting the roller context from your browser will show you a page where > roller prompts you to create database tables, and then you can register your > new user and start blogging :) > > > -- Shelan Perera Blog : http://www.shelanlk.com Twitter: shelan skype :shelan.perera gtalk :shelanrc I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul. *invictus*
