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Hi and thanks for the reply.

For someone like myself who is very inexperienced with configuring java and
tomcat, it'd have been useful if there was a statement on the tomcat setup
page here something like this:

"Make sure you give enough memory to Java. The default memory settings for
tomcat are too low to install or run xwiki without issues. Recommended
settings are min 512 and max 1024" 

or something of that order.

"Make sure you give enough memory to Java” was noteworthy, I wondered about
it, but it didn't clue me in to the fact that out of the box tomcat defaults
to way too low.



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[xwiki-users] What does "Version 8.4.3 is installed as dependency" mean?

I wanted to import a word document to see how it does. I have xwiki 8.4.3.

The Office Importer Application needs to be installed, as far as I can tell.
Next to it's name it says 8.3, and in the header it has "Version 8.4.3 is
installed as dependency".  It does not have the blue Install button; instead
it says "Downgrade".

Dependencies listed are 
xwiki platform - office - importer 8.3 and then "version 8.4.3 is provided"
xwiki commons - component - api and then "version 8.4.3 is provided"

I have not found anything in the docs that explain what this means, although
I expect the info is there somewhere. Does it mean that I have to downgrade
my installation to 8.3 in order to get this extension to install? But
another extension "File Manager Application" does have the blue install
button; and it has many dependencies on apparently older extensions like
velocity macro 5.4.4.

I can't make sense of it. I've searched quite a bit and haven't found
anything relevant.




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[xwiki-users] Is there an easy way to copy paste multiple images onto a page?

One question I have about the very useful feature of xwiki is how to drag and
drop multiple images onto a page. Offhand xmarks seems to create an image
attachment called image.png; pasting another image onto the same page
overwrites the first image, using with the same name. Any way to have xwiki
increment the image names? I know I can attach the image and then reference
it in the page but it's more work.



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Re: [xwiki-users] Need help configuring xwiki for sql server; possible documentation error

And a recommendation - make the 'provide enough memory for tomcat' statement
in the instructions a bit more explicit; possibly advise what I used,
512-1024. The out of the box tomcat memory settings are very low. 

Generally the xwiki setup instructions are very good. Thank you.



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Re: [xwiki-users] Need help configuring xwiki for sql server; possible documentation error

Finally, success. Almost for certain the issue was lack of memory for tomcat.
With min 512 and max 1024 xwiki is running normally. 

The part of this long thread that is not about tomcat memory, I'd guess, is
the fact that the hibernate instructions for mssql may be incomplete, and
that I couldn't get the jtds driver to work.



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Re: [xwiki-users] Need help configuring xwiki for sql server; possible documentation error

Oh well...exciting installation process.

After completing the UI installation step,it was moving on to whatever is
next, and after about 30 minutes of spinning I get a major error page:

Step 5 - Report
Failed to execute the [velocity] macro. Cause: [Java heap space]. Click on
this message for details.
java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space

I know the instructions mention being sure you have given Jave enough
memory. But I have no idea how to interpret "enough" so I just tried it with
the default settings. This is a vm (hypverv). Can I adjust memory in the
middle of the installation? 

This is from the tomcat status page:
JVM
Free memory: 0.65 MB Total memory: 247.50 MB Max memory: 247.50 MB
Memory Pool TypeInitial Total   Maximum Used
Eden Space  Heap memory 34.12 MB68.31 MB68.31 MB
68.31 MB (100%)
Survivor Space  Heap memory 4.25 MB 8.50 MB 8.50 MB 7.84 MB (92%)
Tenured Gen Heap memory 85.37 MB170.68 MB   170.68 MB   
170.68 MB (100%)
Code Cache  Non-heap memory 2.43 MB 91.62 MB240.00 MB   90.78 
MB (37%)
Compressed Class Space  Non-heap memory 0.00 MB 14.37 MB1024.00 MB  
13.81 MB
(1%)
Metaspace   Non-heap memory 0.00 MB 122.81 MB   -0.00 MB119.80 
MB

The 100% items don't look good. Should I double 'memory'; and can I do that
via the tomcat ui midstream of this install? Or do I need to restart the
install?



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Re: [xwiki-users] Need help configuring xwiki for sql server; possible documentation error

It had the black screen for 8 hours or so. I tried to nav to xwiki after a
few hours but nothing changed. I restarted the server in the evening and
after going to xwiki it started the intialization process again and
completed. Now it's going through the UI setup process.

Why did it 'black out'?



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Re: [xwiki-users] Need help configuring xwiki for sql server; possible documentation error

I decided to try the Microsoft JDBC driver and had more success with that.
Still curious about the issues I mentioned in the original post and about
why the jtds config failed.

After browsing to the xwiki page, it went to 100% progress, then down to 95%
for a long time. It has added many tables to the xwiki database. Now it's
sitting on a page

http://localhost:8080/xwiki/bin/distribution/XWiki/Distribution?xredirect=%2Fxwiki%2Fbin%2Fview%2FMain%2F

and the browser window is completely black. It's been like that for at least
90 minutes. Is it completed and just didn't draw the success page correctly?
Or did it fail? I hesitate to try the main xwiki page again in case that re
initialized the installation process again.



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Re: [xwiki-users] forgot password (admin and user)

If I understand your question correctly, yes, after the xwiki site has been
configured by an admin, regular users can access the wiki directly in the
browser as long as they have an account in the wiki or integration has been
configured with your domain authentication.



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[xwiki-users] Need help configuring xwiki for sql server; possible documentation error

2016-12-28 Thread novnovice

I am configuring xwiki to run with sql server. The xwiki database is created,
and the xwiki user is the owner of the db. I can enter records in a table I
made in that db as the xwiki user.

I am using the jtds driver. Here is the jtds section on the sql server
config page:

jdbc:jtds:sqlserver://:1433/XWiki;tds=8.0;lastupdatecount=true
xwiki
xwiki
net.sourceforge.jtds.jdbc.Driver
org.hibernate.dialect.SQLServerDialect
com.xpn.xwiki.store.DBCPConnectionProvider
2
2




There may be a couple of issues with this template. 

The first line contains . My first run through was generating a
mile long error number 11007. Near the bottom was the parse error 

The element type "server-url" must be terminated by the matching end-tag
""

Either the tag was put in there in error or the expectation was that the
clever xwiki installer would see that as a placeholder and do something with
it. I swapped in localhost, and it solved that issue. It might be worth
adjusting the docs? 

Note I am running on the default port for sql server. 

After this I got errors. I compared the sql server config page with the
examples (mysql, postgres etc) in the hibernate file and made two more
changes. 

The first line loses the jtds so 
jdbc:sqlserver://localhost:1433/XWiki;tds=8.0;lastupdatecount=true

and I added two mappings at the end (all other example dbs show these)




I was still getting error number 11007. I can't mine the error detail to get
to a next step. It's close - the xwiki initialization seems to get into the
90% range before bombing out. The bottom level error is root cause

java.sql.SQLException: No suitable driver

I'm using jtds-1.3.1.jar; that's supposed to be the right one for sql server
2012.

Here is the db section of the hibernate file. Note I've tried both jtds and
jdbc in the first line, not sure which is correct. 

jtds:sqlserver://localhost:1433/XWiki;tds=8.0;lastupdatecount=true
xwiki
xwiki
net.sourceforge.jtds.jdbc.Driver
org.hibernate.dialect.SQLServerDialect
com.xpn.xwiki.store.DBCPConnectionProvider
2
2






Here is the full error:

HTTP Status 500 - com.xpn.xwiki.XWikiException: Error number 11007 in 0:
Failed to extract Entity Resource Reference from URL
[http://localhost:8080/xwiki/bin/view/Main/]

type Exception report

message com.xpn.xwiki.XWikiException: Error number 11007 in 0: Failed to
extract Entity Resource Reference from URL
[http://localhost:8080/xwiki/bin/view/Main/]

description The server encountered an internal error that prevented it from
fulfilling this request.

exception

javax.servlet.ServletException: com.xpn.xwiki.XWikiException: Error number
11007 in 0: Failed to extract Entity Resource Reference from URL
[http://localhost:8080/xwiki/bin/view/Main/]

org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.processException(RequestProcessor.java:520)

org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.processActionPerform(RequestProcessor.java:427)

org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.process(RequestProcessor.java:228)
org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.process(ActionServlet.java:1913)
org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.doGet(ActionServlet.java:449)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:622)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:729)
com.xpn.xwiki.web.ActionFilter.doFilter(ActionFilter.java:112)

org.xwiki.wysiwyg.server.filter.ConversionFilter.doFilter(ConversionFilter.java:127)
org.apache.tomcat.websocket.server.WsFilter.doFilter(WsFilter.java:52)

org.xwiki.container.servlet.filters.internal.SetHTTPHeaderFilter.doFilter(SetHTTPHeaderFilter.java:63)

org.xwiki.container.servlet.filters.internal.SavedRequestRestorerFilter.doFilter(SavedRequestRestorerFilter.java:208)

org.xwiki.container.servlet.filters.internal.SetCharacterEncodingFilter.doFilter(SetCharacterEncodingFilter.java:111)

org.xwiki.resource.servlet.RoutingFilter.doFilter(RoutingFilter.java:136)

root cause

com.xpn.xwiki.XWikiException: Error number 11007 in 0: Failed to extract
Entity Resource Reference from URL
[http://localhost:8080/xwiki/bin/view/Main/]
com.xpn.xwiki.XWiki.initializeResourceFromURL(XWiki.java:926)
com.xpn.xwiki.XWiki.getXWiki(XWiki.java:793)
com.xpn.xwiki.web.XWikiAction.execute(XWikiAction.java:255)
com.xpn.xwiki.web.XWikiAction.execute(XWikiAction.java:210)

org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.processActionPerform(RequestProcessor.java:425)

org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.process(RequestProcessor.java:228)
org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.process(ActionServlet.java:1913)
org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.doGet(ActionServlet.java:449)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:622)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:729)

Re: [xwiki-users] Importing a file system based set of folders with text, doc, files

2016-12-27 Thread novnovice

Thanks again Thomas. After a quick look the third options seems most
approachable. 



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Re: [xwiki-users] Installing XWiki 8.4.3 using windows exe

2016-12-27 Thread novnovice

Thanks Thomas. So Jetty and Tomcat are both Java EE Servers, that explains
it.

Does it mean I should run the uninstaller for the xwiki exe? Probably. And
now I recall that a good while ago I did read that the standalone isn't
particularly meant for production use.



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[xwiki-users] Installing XWiki 8.4.3 using windows exe

I'm not very good with java so I'm probably missing something very obvious.

The install in on windows 2012 r2. tomcat is running on port 8080. When I
browse to 8080 I see the tomcat success page. The XWiki 8.4.3 installer
seemed to go ok. I created the database and user (sql server), edited the
hibernate xml.

When I run the "start xwiki" the dos windows does ok for a bit and then
starts showing some failures like

2016-12-26 18:38:15.451:WARN:oejuc.AbstractLifeCycle:main: FAILED
ServerConnecto
r@205b73d8{HTTP/1.1}{0.0.0.0:8080}: java.net.BindException: Address already
in u
se: bind
java.net.BindException: Address already in use: bind
at sun.nio.ch.Net.bind0(Native Method)

viewing xwiki just show this:

HTTP Status 404 - /xwiki/bin/view/Main/
type Status report
message /xwiki/bin/view/Main/
description The requested resource is not available.
Apache Tomcat/8.0.30

Does this mean that tomcat is using 8080 for something already and xwiki
can't take it over? I could change the port that xwiki will run on; but will
wait for input.

BTW, as far as I can tell the install docs on xwiki.org do not include any
info on a windows exe type install.



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Re: [xwiki-users] Which input syntax to choose?

Very good, interesting page for sure.



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[xwiki-users] Importing a file system based set of folders with text, doc, files

I know xwiki can import various kinds of data one at a time per
http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Features/Imports. Here is my more
complex scenario.

We have been adding text files, or doc files, to a windows file system set
of folders. The normal pattern has been something like this:

*-dir root*
--*dir acronis backup*
---*dir 20150101 install on server01*
text file somename.txt
---*dir 20150520 update to version x.x*
text file re.txt
image screenshot01.png
--*dir backblaze*
---*dir 20140105 install and configure*
txt file re.txt
etc

So, there are topic areas at the highest level (acronis, backblaze) and
normally under them folders named for the date (20150101) with a title
(install on server01). Inside the folder is a mix of text files, word
documents, and images.

I would use the top level folder as a category or topic area inside xwiki.
I would use the date as a data point on the wiki entry, to make sure I can
sort by date of occurrance.

The text or word files are often named re.txt. Sometimes they have a more
distinctive name, but mostly the file name is not a viable name for a wiki
entry. The second part of the folder name would be better for that.

So, no one needs to parse all the details of our existing folder/file hive.
I realize there is no way that any wiki system can simply import and
translate that into something that would be presentable inside the wiki. I
expect to write some code (non-php, I'd probably use vb) that traverses the
hive that we have, and writes elements of what it finds into an xml file or
something else that can otherwise be pulled into xwiki. the text and doc
files would be converted into pages and the images...I'm not familiar enough
with xwiki to know if it'd be best to leave those files in place on the disk
and simply references them in the related wiki entry, or better to move them
into the wiki system somehow.

I could even write the wiki entries directly into the database. xwiki has an
api, possibly that would be useful for this purpose?

Probably an issue that has been encountered many times in the past. I'd
appreciate any tips and or pointers to articles about this.

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Re: [xwiki-users] Which input syntax to choose?

OK, thanks that's the info I was looking for. I kind of guessed that the
mulitple input syntaxes would be most useful when importing pages from
another type of wiki. When I configure the test server I'll use xwiki 2.1
syntax and see how it goes.



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