Hi Yves, I'm afraid that you've downloaded Jackrabbit 2.x (jackrabbit-webapp-2.16.3.war), not OAK [1], while being referred to OAK OSGi features. The download page contains both Jackrabbit 2.x and OAK. Each has its own documentation and different feature set. [2,3,...]
Regards, Woonsan [1] http://jackrabbit.apache.org/oak/ [2] http://jackrabbit.apache.org/jcr/getting-started-with-apache-jackrabbit.html [3] http://jackrabbit.apache.org/oak/docs/use_getting_started.html On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 7:53 AM Yves De Bruyne <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello, > > I am trying to run a jackrabbit oak based repository as a web application > backend. > > We thought that having it running separately would simplify the setup. > > When trying to set this up, I have encountered a few problems and I'd like > to > check the workarounds that I had to do against common sense or higher > experience. > > --------------- > > Part 1) Installation > > On a vanilla Tomcat 7 on Redhat > wget > https://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.lua/jackrabbit/2.16.3/jackrabbit-webapp-2.16.3.war > cp jackrabbit-webapp-2.16.3.war /usr/share/tomcat/webapps/jackrabbit.war > start tomcat > STOP tomcat (webapp has been expanded) > > Hack 1) > Edit jackrabbit/WEB-INF/templates/bootstrap.properties > comment out the line repository.config=jackrabbit/repository/repository.xml > > - This seems to be needed so that the oak repository creation id possible, > as an aok repo has no config file (?) > > Hack 2) > cd jackrabbit/WEB-INF > wget > https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/jackrabbit/trunk/jackrabbit-jcr2dav/src/test/resources/protectedHandlersConfig.xml > > - This configuration file seems to be needed to run on tomcat 7+ > > These changes allow me to run jackrabbit, and the wizard creates a oak type > repository that seems to work just fine. > > ------------------- > > Part 2) Configuration > > Here I'm stumped. All the documentation refers to OSGI parameters that can > be set via Felix, yet this setup does not seem to have a Felix console that > I can find (e.g. localhost:8080/jackrabbit/server/default/system/console > (?)) > > I would need to make some changes to the repository: > > Change 1) Change admin password > Change 2) Activate a FileDataStore to distribute binaries better (140G of > data await) > > - I tried to access felix, but could not find a URL to do so > - I tried putting configurations into /usr/share/tomcat/[reponame]/install, > but I see no effect > > (inspired by the last paragraphs in > https://jackrabbit.apache.org/oak/docs/osgi_config.html) > > ------------- > > Voilà, these are the ordeals I'm facing. I'm pretty sure I missed something > rather ominous, but I'm more used to the silky padding of AEM, where a lot > more is hidden in the default deployment... > > I hope at least the installation quirks can be useful for newcomers. If the > war file deployment is the wrong choice, maybe we can gather a bit of > information about that. > The idea was to run the repository and the webapp side by side and have > the webapp communicate with the repo over jndi. > > Thanks a lot for your time and for any pointers or suggestions. > > Yves De Bruyne > > > -- > Nobody is tired on a day of victory
