Thanks for this, will try it out.
On 2 September 2014 15:43, Pottinger, Hardy J. <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Hi, Nason, here is the init script I use for running a binary install of
> Tomcat 7 on RHEL [1] Note that it gets progressively more aggressive when
> shutting down Tomcat. This script is a "mash-up" of a few sample Tomcat
> init scripts I found online, citations are given in the code.
>
> [1] https://gist.github.com/hardyoyo/9903387
>
>
> *From:* Nason Bimbe [[email protected]]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, September 02, 2014 9:25 AM
> *To:* Pottinger, Hardy J.
> *Cc:* Peter Dietz; dspace-tech
> *Subject:* Re: [Dspace-tech] Dspace 3.1 to 4.2 upgrade: XMLUI webapp not
> running and can not be started
>
> Hi Hardy,
> I will be trying it out again tomorrow afresh after restoring the system
> to before the attempted upgrade. I am using a script I created in
> /etc/init.d for starting/stopping Tomcat. I will also try Shaun Donovan's
> information which he sent directly to me and shown below. I will update you
> how it on progress. Thanks again for the help.
>
> Best
> Nason
>
> I had this problem, not on xmlui but on oai. I found the following on
> the web and tried it, and it worked.
>
> Check Inside the Following Directory for the jar file el-api.jar
> :C:\apache-tomcat-7.0.39\lib\el-api.jar if it exists then in this
> directory of your web application WEB-INF\lib\el-api.jar the jar
> should be removed
>
> What I did is find the file, and moved it, then the app started without
> issues. This was on a development machine. I then tried it on the
> production machine and my oai would still not start. I had other issues in
> my catalina.out which pointed to the web.xml file in tomcats conf directory
> which had <!-- comments within a comment, which I also removed, and then
> production worked as well.
>
>
>
>
> On 2 September 2014 13:59, Pottinger, Hardy J. <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi, Nason, did you ever configure Tomcat to run as the DSpace user?
>> What are you using for a service init script?
>>
>> --Hardy
>>
>> Sent from my iPad
>>
>> On Sep 1, 2014, at 1:52 PM, "Nason Bimbe" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>> I am still having the same problem. I have made sure dspace is the owner
>> of all files and I am also using dspace user to build the DSpace. I am
>> running Debian Wheezy.
>>
>> This is how Tomcat was installed
>> =========================
>> - downloaded, copied Tomact 7 files into /usr/local, created a symbolic
>> link
>> mv /home/dspace/Downloads/apache-tomcat-7.0.54 /usr/local
>> unlink tomcat
>> ln -s apache-tomcat-7.0.54 tomcat
>> - made sure that tomcat folder is owned by the dspace user
>> cd /usr/local
>> chown -R dspace:dspace apache-tomcat-7.0.54
>> - restarted tomcat
>> /etc/init.d/tomcat restart
>> - checked if tomcat is running and is running ok
>> http://localhost:8080
>>
>>
>> This the change I made to the top level POM as advised by Bram by
>> adding scope tag
>> ===============================================================
>> <dependency>
>> <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
>> <artfactId>servlet-api</artfactID>
>> <version>2.5</version>
>> <scope>provided</scope>
>> </dependency>
>>
>> Regards
>> Nason
>>
>>
>> On 1 September 2014 00:38, Pottinger, Hardy J. <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Peter is right, you can ignore the info line. You probably have a
>>> permission issue. How did you install and start Tomcat? What OS are you
>>> using?
>>>
>>> --Hardy
>>>
>>> Sent from my Zact Mobile phone.
>>>
>>> Peter Dietz <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Hmm, I don't know what's wrong in this case. Check your logs further
>>> back for a line that starts with ERROR, the INFO line might not be too much
>>> to worry about.
>>>
>>> When you built the DSpace 4 code, I would try mvn -U clean package.
>>> Also, double check that your tomcat/dspace user is the owner of all the
>>> files.
>>>
>>> ________________
>>> Peter Dietz
>>> Longsight
>>> www.longsight.com
>>> [email protected]
>>> p: 740-599-5005 x809
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 11:56 AM, Nason Bimbe <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> I have upgraded the dspace from 3.1 to 4.2 but when I try to access
>>>> XMLUI webapp I get a 404. Checking the Tomcat manager shows that xmlui
>>>> webapp is not running but the rest are, that is oai and solr. When I try to
>>>> start the webapp in Tomcat manager I get a FAIL error (FAIL - Application
>>>> at contect path /xmlui could not be started).
>>>>
>>>> The dspace logs to not show any errors but the catalina out shows the
>>>> following...
>>>>
>>>> Aug 29, 2014 2:16:01 PM org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader
>>>> validateJarFile
>>>> INFO:
>>>> validateJarFile(/usr/local/dspace/webapps/xmlui/WEB-INF/lib/jsp-api-2.1.jar)
>>>> - jar not loaded. See Servlet Spec 3.0, section 10.7.2. Offending class:
>>>> javax/el/Expression.class
>>>> Aug 29, 2014 2:16:12 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext
>>>> startInternal
>>>> SEVERE: Error listenerStart
>>>> Aug 29, 2014 2:16:12 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext
>>>> startInternal
>>>> SEVERE: Context [/xmlui] startup failed due to previous errors
>>>>
>>>> The platform I am using has: -
>>>> OS: Debian Wheezy
>>>> Java: 1.7.0_65 (OpenJDK)
>>>> Tomcat: 7.0.54
>>>> Maven: 3.2.1
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Has anyone encountered this problem or does anyone know a solution or
>>>> where I am going wrong?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>> Nason
>>>>
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