Thanks very much for all that info Walter, it looks like an upgrade of
freeBSD is the way to go. I'll attempt that when I can, and get back
with my own feedback then (our baby boy was born on the weekend, so it
could be a little while before I get to it now. :-) ).
Cheers,
Mark
Walter Vaughan wrote:
Mark Thomas wrote:
Mark Thomas wrote:
I have tried installing ofBiz on freeBSD 4.11, but it hangs
during startup.
Okay I don't have anything new to help you other than showing than you
could update everything to current and Apache OFBiz still works on
FreeBSD.
Our test server was running FreeBSD 6.0 instead of 6.1 like I had
thought, and it was running jdk-1.4.2p8_3.
So to monkey things up since I am wanting to experiment with Bizgres
as a datastore, I need to run jdk-1.5 level, so here's what I did this
morning...
I updated the ports collection and did a portupgrade -aR
I did a binary update from 6.0 to 6.1 using recipe at
http://www.daemonology.net/freebsd-upgrade-6.0-to-6.1/
There was no really good automatic upgrade path from 4.* which sucks
for you.
Best practice is a reformat, however the machine that I'm talking
about started out life as a 4.10-beta box, and has been upgraded
continually without reformatting so it's still formatted UFS (Pre 5.*)
instead of the modern UFS2 disk format.
rebooted
installed JDK5 from freeBSD foundation site at
http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/downloads/java.shtml
removed (pkg_delete)
apache-ant-1.6.5_1
jdk-1.4.2p8_3
junit-3.8.2
log4j-1.2.13
mysql-connector-java-5.0.3
Reinstalled via ports collection and not binary packages
apache-ant
junit
log4j
mysql-connector-java
Ran ant run-install in ofbiz directory
./startofbiz.sh and everything "seems" to work. I am connecting to
mysql-server-5.0.22, rather than the default Java dbms, which is where
you are hanging, and I have apache running ofbiz directly via mod_jk,
but that should not be an issue.
Why don't you install mysql-5.X and follow the directions at
http://www.opentaps.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=37&Itemid=62
Or see if your hosting company will upgrade you to FreeBSD 6.1?
--
Walter
