On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 3:46 PM, Peter Petersson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Jim > > I assume you are trying to install liferay in geronimo and not just > generate a new plan, with you do not need to, as Shiva have provided you > with one (the geronimo-web.xml). > > Aside from the security dependency issue you have that I hope **someone > else** that are more familiar with the security (dependency) changes done > between G v2.0.2 and v2.1 will help you with, there are a couple of more > things to do: > > As the liferay-portal-geronimo-tomcat car is dependent (if you haven't > changed the geronimo-web.xml regarding the db pool) on the > liferay-portal-geronimo-derby-pool car, so to successfully install the > liferay-portal-geronimo-tomcat car you have to install the derby pool > **before** the liferay-portal-geronimo-tomcat car. > > After a smal tweak of the META-INF/geronimo-plugin.xml included in the > derby-pool car file you should be able to install the db pool by issuing > > deploy --user <user> --password <passoword> install-plugin <derby pool car > file> > > The geronimo-plugin.xml tweak consist of changing the version tag in the > geronimo-plugin.xml to <version>2.1-SNAPSHOT</version> (omit -snapshot for > released geronimo). The same command (as above) can then be used on the > liferay-portal-geronimo-tomcat car (when the security dependency issue is > fixed) > Looks like there is more to it than just that. I have been trying it since yesterday and it is failing with below error: Installation FAILED: A plugin configuration must include one plugin artifact, not 0 Any idea where is the source for liferay-portal-geronimo-derby-pool-4.4.1.car ? > Maybe this link will be of some help to you even though it is a bit > outdated http://wiki.liferay.com/index.php/Liferay_with_Geronimo > > regards > peter petersson > > > > Jim Foster wrote: > > Shiva Kumar H R wrote: > > > There are two problems, both in Plan Creator feature: > 1) Error message/Java Exceptions are suppressed by Plan Creator code and > not > shown to the user at all :-( > > With liferay-portal-4.4.1.war, when I ran Geronimo in debug mode and > remote > connected via Eclipse (with a break point put at the beginning > oforg.apache.geronimo.console.configcreator.JSR88_Util.parseWarReferences() > function inside "plancreator-portlets" module), I found that we are > getting > following exception: > org.apache.geronimo.common.DeploymentException: AbstractWebModuleBuilder: > Could not load servlet class: com.liferay.portal.servlet.MainServlet > > Instead of showing this error on Console, plan creator is currently > suppressing it in an empty catch() block. > *GERONIMO-3850<https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GERONIMO-3850> > <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GERONIMO-3850> > *is opened for this. > > 2) Secondly, I see that the class it is complaining > "com.liferay.portal.servlet.MainServlet" *does* exist, but inside a > compressed jar ("portal-impl.jar") in WEB-INF/lib directory of WAR. Plan > Creator has a current limitation :-( in resolving such classes. * > GERONIMO-3851 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GERONIMO-3851> > <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GERONIMO-3851> *is > opened for this. > > Due to these bugs/limitations, I am sorry to say that you will again have > to > create geronimo-web.xml by hand. I found one "geronimo-web.xml" > insideliferay-portal-4.4.1.war itself. I have removed non-existing > dependencies > from it and attached it in this mail. Please see if it works. (I guess it > requires some pre-requisite db-pools to be deployed before the WAR can be > deployed). Hope it helps. > > ... > > > > > Hi Shiva, > > Is there any new word on the origins of the security configuration errors we > were seeing? > > I have spent a good deal of time this week reading everything I could get my > hands on, including a healthy chunk of the 120 Geronimo articles up at IBM's > developerworks. > (http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/views/opensource/libraryview.jsp?end_no=120&lcl_sort_order=asc&type_by=All+Types&sort_order=asc&start_no=1&show_all=true&sort_by=Date&search_by=&topic_by=Geronimo&search_flag=&show_abstract=true). > > However, the most recent I could find that seemed relevant to this issue was > on the wiki: > http://cwiki.apache.org/GMOxDOC21/installation-and-configuration.html > > However, this is an installation document, and provides little in the way of > debugging guidelines, and I am only now just far enough along in wrapping > my head around all the technologies that make up Geronimo to get myself in > trouble. > > Suggestions? > > > Once past this, I would like your advise on how to bring up to date the > Liferay-provided .car file for the derby pool. I looked at its contents, and > I see that they are clearly wrong (my guess is that they were written > forv1.1), but I am not quite sure how to go about fixing it so as to be in > alignment with v2.1 > > ...one step at a time though...first the security issue. > > > Thank you for your time, patience, and advise. > > Jim > > > > > > > > -- Thanks, Shiva
