Wow that is tough, I know running inside program directory is not the best
plan, but still …
Part of the fun of using a new wrapper is learning what is needed I guess.’
On Mon, Oct 4, 2021 at 12:36 PM Rahkonen Jukka (MML) <
jukka.rahko...@maanmittauslaitos.fi> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
>
> I do not quite understand what rights I have on my work computer so I
> changed to my home computer where I have full admin rights. I made
> installation a) as a normal user but running the installer as admin and b)
> when logged in as admin. The experience was better now but not perfect yet.
>
>
>
> - The installer prints a lot of text about how the installation
> proceeds but it all disappears immediately when the installation is ready.
> It would be nice to have an option to get the messages into a file.
> - I verified that the uninstaller does not remove GEOSERVER_DATA_DIR
> environment, even if the data directory folder is removed. Moreover, the
> installer does not set GEOSERVER_DATA_DIR right if some other location is
> specified for the data directory during the next installation. Because of
> that Geoserver does start, but without data even the new data directory is
> there.
> - If installation is made into Program Files then only admin user can
> start the service manually with startup.bat. The reason is that Jetty wants
> to create a new directory into Program Files. It might be good to document
> this and suggest non-admins to use some other directory. ProgramData seems
> to be OK for the data directory.
> - The installer still could did not install the Windows service for
> me. I could see some error messages flashing in the details window of the
> installer but I did not manage to read them properly. Maybe something about
> “invalid user or wrong password”. This happened even when I was logged in
> as admin.
>
>
>
> -Jukka Rahkonen-
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> *Lähettäjä:* Jody Garnett <jody.garn...@gmail.com>
> *Lähetetty:* maanantai 4. lokakuuta 2021 19.50
> *Vastaanottaja:* Rahkonen Jukka (MML) <jukka.rahko...@maanmittauslaitos.fi
> >
> *Kopio:* GeoServer Users <geoserver-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
> *Aihe:* Re: [Geoserver-users] GeoServer 2.20-RC windows installer testing
> requested
>
>
>
> I think you need to be administrator to install a service? I am sorry I am
> not that familiar with windows permissions (power user vs administrator
> huh?)
>
>
>
> Q: Did this situation you describe work with the previous geoserver 2.14
> installer? Perhaps we can learn something.
>
>
>
> ProgramData is the “approved” location for applications to manage their
> configuration; I often wonder why tomcat does not placed its webapps folder
> in ProgramData.
>
>
>
> I am not sure what else I can determine due to your power user rights…
>
>
>
> Jody
>
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 4, 2021 at 12:56 AM Rahkonen Jukka (MML) <
> jukka.rahko...@maanmittauslaitos.fi> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>
>
> I was testing with my work computer as a localpower user. That user does
> not have full rights but I do not know exactly the limits. My observations:
>
>
>
> - I used the Install as a service option but I could not start the
> service. Running the startService.bat did not start the service for me but
> yielded always these two lines
>
> net start GeoServer
>
> [Invalid service name] – translated from Finnish
>
>
>
> Installer creates also the startup.bat file and next results are obtained
> by running that.
>
> - Geoserver does not start if it is installed into the suggested
> location Program Files\GeoServer. With my rights it is not allowed to
> create a new layer during startup. Error:
>
> Please wait while loading GeoServer...
>
>
>
> 2021-10-04 09:43:02.572:INFO::main: Logging initialized @1579ms to
> org.eclipse.jetty.util.log.StdErrLog
>
> 2021-10-04 09:43:02.873:INFO:oejs.Server:main: jetty-9.4.36.v20210114;
> built: 2021-01-14T16:44:28.689Z; git:
> 238ec6997c7806b055319a6d11f8ae7564adc0de; jvm 1.8.0_252-b09
>
> 2021-10-04 09:43:02.888:INFO:oejdp.ScanningAppProvider:main: Deployment
> monitor [file:///C:/Program%20Files/GeoServer/webapps/] at interval 1
>
> 2021-10-04 09:43:02.988:WARN:oejw.WebAppContext:main: Failed startup of
> context
> o.e.j.w.WebAppContext@1e6d1014{geoserver,/geoserver,null,STOPPED}{C:\Program
> Files\GeoServer\webapps\geoserver}
>
> java.lang.IllegalStateException: Unable to create temp dir C:\Program
> Files\GeoServer\work\jetty-0_0_0_0-8080-geoserver-_geoserver-any-
>
>
>
> - The first installation with the default settings created
> environmental variable GEOSERVER_DATA_DIR set to C:\ProgramData\GeoServer.
> It seems that uninstaller does not remove this variable and giving another
> path when running the installer again does not change GEOSERVER_DATA_DIR.
> Error:
>
> 04 lokakuuta 09:54:36 WARN [geoserver.platform] - Found Java environment
> variable GEOSERVER_DATA_DIR set to C:\ProgramData\GeoServer , but this path
> does not exist
>
> 04 lokakuuta 09:54:36 WARN [geoserver.platform] - Found System environment
> variable GEOSERVER_DATA_DIR set to C:\ProgramData\GeoServer , but this path
> does not exist
>
> 04 lokakuuta 09:54:36 INFO [geoserver.platform] - Falling back to embedded
> data directory: C:\ohjelmat\gs20rc\webapps\geoserver\data
>
>
>
> However, the directory that I gave for the installer was created and
> populated. As a result Geoserver did not start right because it was
> searching the data_dir from a wrong place.
>
>
>
> - Next I uninstalled again and removed the GEOSERVER_DATA_DIR
> environment variable before running the installer. I used a custom data_dir
> location but the installer did not set the variable at all. The data
> directory was created and populated and after setting the
> GEOSERVER_DATA_DIR manually I could run startup.bat and Geoserver 2.20-RC
> started.
>
>
>
> Conclusion:
>
> - There seems to be something to check with setting/removing/changing
> the location of the data_dir with installer and uninstaller
> - The run as service alternative did not work at all for me
> - Using directory “Program Files” may make troubles even the
> installation seems to be successful because Jetty wants to create a new
> directory when it starts. I do not know if using ProgramData may show
> similar issues because I used a custom data_dir location in most of my
> tests.
>
>
>
> -Jukka Rahkonen-
>
>
>
>
>
> *Lähettäjä:* Jody Garnett <jody.garn...@gmail.com>
> *Lähetetty:* sunnuntai 3. lokakuuta 2021 20.26
> *Vastaanottaja:* GeoServer Users <geoserver-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
> *Aihe:* [Geoserver-users] GeoServer 2.20-RC windows installer testing
> requested
>
>
>
> Reporting in from the foss4g code sprint, and I noticed that Sander and
> Juan produces a GeoServer-install-2.20-RC.exe last week...
>
>
>
> I do not have a windows environment handy, can I ask for testing please?
> Download is available from
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/geoserver/files/GeoServer/2.20-RC/
>
>
>
> --
>
> Jody Garnett
>
> --
>
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>
> Jody Garnett
>
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