The error message means that the WAR is not exploding, i.e., opening
up/expanding into a directory in the Tomcat webapps folder. When you
solve that problem -- the OpenShift forum might help, as it is a problem
that could happen for any WAR file -- Roller should hopefully work as
expected.
The MySQL JAR needs to move into the Tomcat lib directory because with
JNDI configuration, it is Tomcat that needs the MySQL JAR (as Tomcat and
not Roller manages the DB connections), and Tomcat looks into its lib
folder for the JARs that it needs.
Glen
On 11/11/2014 11:35 AM, user wrote:
Thank you very much for your comprehensive article!
I learned from it about possibility of extending Tomcat's lib path.
I have not known about this possibility before. Therefor I have
assigned 'roller-custom.propertes'
by setting 'roller.config.file' JVM property by means of
'JAVA_OPTS_EXT' environment variable.
You also write about necessity of copying MySQL Driver jar to
'rollerdata/lib'.
But why is it necessary? I have checked the presence there of the
class 'com.mysql.jdbc.Driver'
in my test dummy application (using 'Class.forName(className)') and it
showed me that this class was loaded.
Yes, I use version 5.1.1 compiled from sources by 'mvn compile'.
Then I uploaded WAR by commiting it to 'webapps/roller.war' in my
working copy.
Unfortunetly, I could not to deploy WAR by ssh. Namely, I don't know
how to activate deployment routine after uploading file to server.
Your advice about editing 'log4j.properties' in WAR has helped me to
obtain the following error:
'FATAL: RollerContext:contextInitialized - Roller requires an exploded
WAR file to run.'
What does it means?
11.11.2014, 15:14:04 пользователь Glen Mazza (glen.ma...@gmail.com)
написал:
What version of Roller are you running -- hopefully 5.1.1? Have you
seen my blog article:
https://web-gmazza.rhcloud.com/blog/date/20131216 for pointers? I
would stick with getting the JNDI method to work, it's connection
pooling is probably better.
Also, you may wish to activate the roller-startup logging file in the
WAR's log4j.properties file
(https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/roller/trunk/app/src/main/resources/log4j.properties)
-- it's located probably under the WEB-INF/classes folder; it
sometimes will output more informative error messages prior to Roller
starting up. (Doing this config in your roller-custom.properties
may not work as well as some startup system errors occur prior to
that properties file getting read.)
HTH,
Glen
On 11/10/2014 4:24 PM, user wrote:
>
> Have choosen MySQL DB, have tryed both Tomcat's JNDI resource and
jdbc > type of connection.
> The following error occurs in log:
> java.lang.IllegalStateException: Roller Weblogger has not been >
prepared yet
> at >
org.apache.roller.weblogger.business.startup.WebloggerStartup.getDatabaseProvider(WebloggerStartup.java:64)
> at >
org.apache.roller.weblogger.business.startup.WebloggerStartup.getDatabaseInstaller(WebloggerStartup.java:155)
> at >
org.apache.roller.weblogger.business.startup.WebloggerStartup.isDatabaseCreationRequired(WebloggerStartup.java:95)
> at >
org.apache.roller.weblogger.ui.struts2.core.Install.execute(Install.java:85)
>
> As I understand from 'Install.java' class, the error expected to >
occure several lines earlier, namely in 'Install.java:71':
> if (WebloggerStartup.getDatabaseProviderException()
!= null) {
> where presence of exception checked. But if doesn't occur, hence, >
there is no exception.
> The exception expected to be assigned at >
'org.apache.roller.weblogger.business.startup.WebloggerStartup#prepare'
method. >
> So I conclude this method was never called.
