Paul Libbrecht wrote: > Hello fellow developers, > > I followed > http://curriki.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/InstallationInstructions > building with maven 2.0.9 on MacOSX to get curriki running on a > development machine. > > - building went very fine > - tried changing things in xwiki.cfg but the indicated property is not > there and xwiki.cfg contains an amount of "undefined" values, > importantly the encoding and default-Skin among others. I could add > each of the missing properties (i.e. the properties used in xwiki.cfg > generation) by adding sibblings of the element > <xwikiCfgEditCommentMandatory>. Similarly, I could add the dependency > on our postgres driver by enriching the dependencies in this pom.xml, > and I could add a few properties which seemed not correct in xwiki.cfg > in the xwikiCfgAdditionalProperties element. > I also activated superadmin... the indicated admin password didn't > work there I think. > > - changing the hibernate.cfg.xml I could do as well, but it should be > said not to change the one in target... since it gets overriddent at > every build, but the one in web/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF > > At the end I got, with two changed files, a webapp that seems to match > my expectations and which actually started. Ideally, these changes > should happen in an extra file... is there space for this? Something > such as ~/build.properties in maven-1? > I think there are some steps but this would need the help for our maven specialists.. Any hint ? The questions is, if I'm right, how to change xwiki.cfg or hibernate config stuff locally ?
> After changing catalina.sh to bump memory, I could import the xar > (which I built as well). > There I got stuck because I had to put albatross and not toucan as > default and base skins. > After that I could import the xar and it started looking like curriki. > > The log showed an amount of errors which I've ignored thus far. > > I concluded with the three manual steps... are they here to stay? Yes... because we don't have a procedure currently at import for pages requiring programming rights. Another step is working around a bug which I could not find the cause for. > > Should I try to update the installation instructions or are there > enhancements to my procedure? Yes definitively.. I would add a new page: "how to change config params or the database to mysql or postgres" > I'm pretty happy with this adventure.... I could, right away, record a > podcast. > > paul > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > -- Ludovic Dubost Blog: http://blog.ludovic.org/ XWiki: http://www.xwiki.com Skype: ldubost GTalk: ldubost _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
