On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 5:36 AM, Tim Wintle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> Hi, completely new to Shindig, > > * I'm interested in the gadget server rather than the social server > part of the system - is there anything I should be aware of about > running the gadget server without any social support? > > * We don't use Java or PHP very much, so there's no obvious choice for > which to use. Which would be most recommended? Our use case would mean a > high volume of hits on a low number of different gadgets per day, so I > guess good caching of external data is important, although ease of > set-up and maintenance would be the most important. They're pretty much identical when it comes to features and performance. The java renderer implements a few more experimental things (proxied rendering and support for the caja project), but otherwise there isn't much of a difference other than set up and configuration. For PHP you need to: - Install and configure Apache (or other PHP-capable web server) - Install and configure PHP for your web server - Configure and deploy shindig code For Java you have to: - Build the code (we'll have prebuilt jars soon, but for now the instructions on http://incubator.apache.org/shindig are required) - Install and configure a servlet container (tomcat, jetty, etc.) - Configure and deploy shindig code >From personal experience, I think deploying PHP is easier than deploying java but you may feel differently. I'd pick a version based on what language you're more likely to want to write actual code in, though, since if you want to do tight integration with an existing social data backend you'll probably have to write your own adapters in either language. > > * I'm having troubles running either version at the moment. > > ******* > Java version: > ******* > "mvn" runs fine, I get six warnings but no errors. > > "mvn -Prun -PrunType=gadgets" Starts Jetty, but gives the errors: > > """ > > 2008-10-17 13:18:07.841::WARN: Web application not found > [path]/java/server/target/shindig-server-1-SNAPSHOT.war > 2008-10-17 13:18:07.841::WARN: Failed startup of context > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > {/,[path]/shindig/java/server/target/shindig-server-1-SNAPSHOT.war Did you run mvn install and mvn package before mvn -Prun ? -Prun starts the server, but since it hasn't been built yet (see previous comment), you have to build first. > > """ > > and then I get 503s from the actual server (which I guess is to be > expected) > > ******* > PHP version: > ******* > Apache is configured fine, but what is "ifr" supposed to be pointing to? > I'm just getting a 404 when I visit the test url. I don't know what > other urls there are to hit to try to test the server. > > Thanks, > > Tim Wintle > > > > > > > > >
