Matt your are a star. Thanks so much for your help. It runs !! I have detailed the installation process for me and share it here because i am sure it will help others ---
install openbluedragon on ubuntu 6.06 with plesk control panel 8.6.0 in fresh vps server running apache 2.0 and tomcat 5 1. Create user and domain in plesk choose shared ip choose create default client account yourdomain.com physical hosting ftp user youruser ftp pass yourpassword ssi php (safe mode on) custom error swith on tomcat from plesk connet to server with putty as root change tomcat user to access admin panel cd /var/lib/tomcat5/conf vim tomcat-users.xml -- add those lines <role rolename="admin"/> <role rolename="manager"/> modify this line as follows <user username="tomcat" password="tomcat" roles="tomcat,admin,manager"/> -- restart tomcat /etc/init.d/tomcat5 restart check if can access tomcat manager http://youripaddress:8180/ Plesk comes with java 1.4 and openbd needs 1.5 check current version of java should be 1.4 at this stage java -version apt-get install sun-java5-bin apt-get install sun-java5-jdk update-java-alternatives -l update-alternatives --config java chose the 1.5 one export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun export _JAVA_OPTIONS='-Xms64M -Xmx128m' check current version of java should be 1.5 at this stage java -version restart tomcat /etc/init.d/tomcat5 restart install openbluedragon.war from tomcat manager http://youripaddress:8180/ create file vhost.conf to allow apache mod proxy to tomcat in plesk environment (this is specific to plesk) (see http://www.gadberry.com/aaron/2006/02/09/plesk_vhost/) vim /var/www/vhosts/yoursite.com/conf/vhost.conf and add this content -- ProxyPass / http://youripaddress:8180/openbluedragon/ ProxyPassReverse / http://youripaddress:8180/openbluedragon/ -- reconfigure plesk to include this conf file /usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/websrvmng -u --vhost-name=yoursite.com load module for modproxy in apache a2enmod proxy_http a2enmod proxy_ftp a2enmod proxy a2enmod proxy_connect /etc/init.d/apache2 force-reload edit file to allow proxy in (http://groups.google.com/group/openbd/ browse_thread/thread/a7933efac9f92bfc?hl=en) vim /etc/apache2/mods-available/proxy.conf /etc/init.d/apache2 force-reload /etc/init.d/apache2 restart add a ftp user to access openbd dir on tomcat (see http://kb.parallels.com/en/415) /usr/sbin/useradd -d /var/lib/tomcat5/webapps/openbluedragon -s /bin/ false yourftpuser /usr/sbin/usermod -G psacln yourftpuser #add user to tomcat group /usr/sbin/usermod -G tomcat yourftpuser #let the tomcat group write on the webroot dir of openbd /var/lib/tomcat5/webapps# chmod g+w openbluedragon --- I hope this will help others, I am a total newbie and got it working finally. It would have taken far less time for someone with a little more linux and java experience but i guess that if you have the same kind of environment you should get going. I am still having some little difficulties connection to my mysql datasource and suspect that there is a linux user permission thingy behind that, but for the rest of it it works fine --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Open BlueDragon Public Mailing List http://groups.google.com/group/openbd?hl=en official blog @ http://blog.openbluedragon.org/ !! save a network - trim replies before posting !! -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
