Very close here...
I would like to duplicate blogs.sun.com (recent posts, etc)
Here is what I have done:
I created planet-custom.properties in the same directory as my
roller-custom.properties and here are the contents of that file:
<roller-custom.properties>
cache.dir=/opt/SUNWappserver/domains/domain1/roller_data/planet/cache
output.dir=/opt/SUNWappserver/domains/domain1/roller_data/planet/webapp
template.dir=/opt/SUNWappsserver/domains/domain1/applications/j2ee-modules/roller/WEB-INF/velocity/templates/planet
# Specify database configuration type of 'jndi' or 'jdbc'
database.configurationType=jdbc
# For database configuration type 'jndi',this will be used
#database.jndi.name=jdbc/rollerdb
# For database configuration type of 'jdbc', you MUST override these
database.jdbc.driverClass=com.mysql.jdbc.Driver
database.jdbc.connectionURL=jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/rollerdb
database.jdbc.username=roller
database.jdbc.password=fooblat
</roller-custom.properties>
cache.dir and output.dir are pretty arbitrary in terms of their
location. The template directory may or may not be correct, not sure. It
is a real directory but I'm not sure what the
I can login to Roller as a global admin and I can access the Planet
administration page without an error now.
What I am unsure of is the settings I need in order to get Planet
working properly.
Here is how I have Roller setup:
I created a blog called 'planet' and assigned a theme to it (frontpage
is not in my list of themes so I am guessing that this is a special theme?)
I edited /path/to/my/themes/frontpage/Weblog.vm and made the following
change (diff style):
--- Weblog.dist Fri Dec 28 09:06:38 2007
+++ Weblog.vm Fri Dec 28 09:07:27 2007
@@ -34,10 +34,10 @@
#if (!$model.results)
## 1) SITE-WIDE entries (the default)
- #set($pager =
$site.getWeblogEntriesPager($since, $maxResults))
+ ##set($pager =
$site.getWeblogEntriesPager($since, $maxResults))
## 2) PLANET-entries
- ## set($pager =
$planet.getAggregationPager($since, $maxResults))
+ # set($pager =
$planet.getAggregationPager($since, $maxResults))
## The below pager code should work against either:
Server Admin > Configuration
Handle of weblog to server as frontpage blog is 'planet'
Enable aggregated site-wide frontpage is checked
Absolute URL to site is (for me) http://server:port/roller (i.e.
http://viking:8080/roller for me)
Planet Admin > Configuration
Assigned a planet title, description, etc
Absolute URL to Planet page is http://server:port/roller/planet (in my
case http://viking:8080/roller/planet)
If I go to the front page of Roller I see the regular old planet blog
but nothing in terms of the aggregation items (am guessing that I need
to wait for the Planet tasks to update?)
Am I missing any steps?
