Hi, First of all, you forgot to mention what version of XWiki you are using.
Goh Chong Leng, Jenson wrote: > We have managed to setup xwiki to work in our UNIX environment. > > However, we faced a lot of problems with xwiki during runtime. > > (1) Running xwiki in tomcat - The java process of tomcat can never be > shutdown properly without using > 'hard' killing, i.e. kill -HUP <process id>. I have searched the web and > found that the cause is actually > quartz library holding on to a process and thus preventing the tomcat > jvm from shutting down. > See here http://jira.opensymphony.com/browse/QUARTZ-204 . The problem > is upgrading quartz to 1.6 > doesn't resolve the problem and attempting to update the two properties > as recommended into > the quartz.properties file will cause tomcat startup failure. This is > quite frustrating, so any input on how > to resolve this problem is much appreciated. Of course, the main > motivation for this is to ensure > proper startup and shutdown so that this process can be automated. If > we have to manually execute > 'kill', the automation of this tomcat process will be problematic. This should be fixed in 1.5, see http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XWIKI-2454 > (2) Everytime after a fresh restart of tomcat, when I hit the first > page of my installed xwiki, I almost always > get a connection reset error. But the second hit will be ok. I wonder > why? Any answers to this? I think it is safe to ignore this error. > (3) The WYSIWYG support is a nightmare. Everytime after an edit > (even a mere clicking on the WYSIWYG link without edit > will cause similar problems), all the formatting that used to work > suddenly don't and user have to manually reformat it. How to make > WYSIWYG rendering consistent? We know that the current WYSIWYG editor is buggy, unstable and confusing. Starting with 1.6 we'll have a new editor. Until then, there's nothing we can do, as maintaining or fixing the current one has proved to be almost impossible. > (4) Customization of user registration field - we spend hours trying > to figure out how to customize the > fields which we would like to have in our registration page. Only > managed to get the attributes added > into the XWiki.XWikiUsers object. But how to link this to stats/user > profile edit page? Any ideas? Also > it seem like after an attribute is added to the XWikiUsers object, it > can't be removed. Any ideas on > how to remove it? Documentation on customization of user registration > page is just a one liner which > is totally useless to anyone who want to customize it. It should be > improved. You cannot remove class properties yet. This is a known bug, and it will be fixed. A workaround is to revert to a previous version (from the history view of the XWikiUsers document) and continue from there. To change the registration page, you must edit <xwikidir>/templates/registerinline.vm To change the user profile page, you must edit XWiki/XWikiUserSheet > (5) When using Oracle as backend, search functions cannot work. > Exception like this occurred when user > perform search: > > > > Exception while searching documents with sql from VisitStats as obj > where obj.cookie=? and obj.endDate > ? order by obj.endDate desc > > Wrapped Exception: could not execute query > > Any way to get this search function working? > This one is also fixed in 1.5, see http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XWIKI-2472 > > (6) Every now and then, log file will throws exceptions like this: > java.sql.SQLException: ORA-00932: inconsistent datatypes: expected - got > CLOB > > Any idea what is the cause of it and how to resolve it? I thought this was also fixed, seems I was wrong. See http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XASTATS-12 The support for Oracle is not so good, since none of the core developers is using it. We rely on user feedback and patches to maintain XWiki on Oracle. > > > All in all, xwiki presents a great opportunity that meets many > organization knowledge management needs (esp. in my organization). But > until all these problems are being resolved, I am amazed by the large > number of user web sites that used xwiki in a production environment. > > In my limited experience with xwiki thus far (closed to 3 months of > working on it), the support requirements of xwiki would be such > a big problems that it will make anyone think twice to adopt it as > enterprise knowledge management system. I certainly is reconsidering > other wiki consequently of all these problems. > > > > My company uses mediawiki as well. While don't have the nice > authentications and authorizations features like xwiki (which we like to > have), > it is extremely stable and easy to use. > -- Sergiu Dumitriu http://purl.org/net/sergiu/ _______________________________________________ users mailing list users@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
