Hello Gan,
I just joined the message board and am new to Orion. I just posted something
similar to the board yesterday, but hav not seen it show up. Does it take a
long time (like a day or more) for your post to show up? Anyway, I was
having the same problem. I didn't have http access setup for the linux
server, and had to install WinProxy on the Windows 2000 machine (the one
hooked to cable internet). I shut down the firewall temporarily (Zone alarm)
and used the following command successfully to go from 1.4.5 to 1.5.1. The
windows 2000 ip on my lan is 192.168.0.1.
java -DproxyHost=192.168.0.1 -DproxyPort=80 -jar autoupdate.jar
Mike Beyersdorf
Tulsa, OK
The following was my original post to the board that hasn't shown up yet.
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I have Orion 1.4.5 installed and want to upgrade so I can use Struts. I'm
setting this up on a home LAN with a Windows 2000 client and a Red Hat Linux
7.0 server. I have file sharing set using Samba and was able to provide
outside http access to the linux server via the Windows 2000 client using
Windows 2000 internet sharing. However, this did not provide http access for
the Linux server to the internet because I use static IP's. According to
Windows 2000 help files and trial and error, it would appear that Windows
2000 internet connection sharing requires dynamic IP lookup. (someone
correct me if they know otherwise). Anyway, since I want to use the Orion
autoupdate feature I obviously need http access for the linux box. I
installed WinProxy which provided the http access once I set Netscape's
manual proxy setting in "Advanced" preferences / options.
OK, so I assume surfing is up, and I should be able to use the autoupdate
command. The Orion documentation states that I should execute the following
command in the Orion home directory, which for me is /home/Orion.
java -DproxyHost=[proxy name] -DproxyPort=[proxy port] -jar autoupdate.jar
My first question is what is [proxy name]? Hostname? Name of Proxy software?
My client hostname is P4DORF so I tried the following from Orion home:
java -DproxyHost=P4DORF -DproxyPort=80 -jar autoupdate.jar
and
java -DproxyHost=WinProxy -DproxyPort=80 -jar autoupdate.jar
In both cases, I get the following error message.
Sending fileinfo to server.
IO Error: www.orionserver.com
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
One newbie observation. It would seem that Orion software releases is a
moving target (i.e. needed to updgrade from 1.4.5 to 1.4.8 to use Struts).
Although the autoupdate process looks like an excellent additional option,
it would seem like developers would benefit from a more direct way to
control what release they are installing. Isn't it a normal requirement to
be able to download what release I desire? I would be curious what others
think about this issue that have been using the product for a while. I am
currently on the beach (out of a contract) and am using the time to educate
myself with the J2EE environment. Orion looks like a good choice for this
education, as long as their is enough online support to get past the issues
you invariably run into. Looks like a good group on this message board, so I
am optimistic. I particularly enjoyed the discussion on choosing an MVC
framework several pages back in the message archives.
Mike Beyersdorf
Tulsa, OK
Note: Before I sent this email, I tried one more option with the autoupdate
command and it worked. I used the ip address for the host for DproxyHost and
it worked, and I upgraded to 1.5.1.
One more newbie question. With both 1.4.5 and now 1.5.1 when I start up
Orion under Linux using "java -jar Orion.jar" the process is started, but I
am not returned to the shell. I get around this by opening an X-window and
then closing it, but seems a little hokey? Any ideas? I'm running under 128
MB memory. By the way, it would be nice to see some minimum requirements
listed somewhere in the Orion documentation.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ganasen Gounden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Orion-Interest" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2001 4:58 AM
Subject: Re: Orion 1.5.0? Where do you download it from?
> Thanks for all many response. What a great community!!!
>
> Unfortunately for me "java -jar autoupdate.jar" does not work because I
am behind a firewall.
> Orionsupport.com says that if you're behind a proxy, as many users are,
you'll need to specify some extra parameters, as so:
>
> java -DproxyHost=[proxy name] -DproxyPort=[proxy port] -jar autoupdate.jar
>
> My firewall address in ie5.5 is http://firewall:8000/proxy.pac.
> However I am not quite sure of how to specify the [proxname] and [proxy
port].
>
> I tried a few commands as follows but failed.
> java -DproxyHost=http://firewall:8000/proxy.pac -DproxyPort=8000 -jar
autoupdate.jar
> java -DproxyHost=[http://firewall:8000/proxy.pac] -DproxyPort=[8000] -jar
autoupdate.jar
> java -DproxyHost=[http://firewall:8000/proxy.pac] -DproxyPort=[80] -jar
autoupdate.jar
> java -DproxyHost=http:firewall -DproxyPort=8000 -jar autoupdate.jar
> java -DproxyHost=firewall -DproxyPort=80 -jar autoupdate.jar
> etc
>
> Could someone please give me the correct format.
>
> Many thanks
>
>
>
> Gan Gounden
> City of Cape Town
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