Hi,
I just wanted to let you know that I have now successfully upgraded the
Dspace on my dev. The problem was actually to do with @mire cua module
which was being referenced in spring configs but whose jar files are not
deployed for now.
Thank you so much for your help.
Best
Nason
On 2 September 2014 15:44, Nason Bimbe <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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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