This is now SOLVED - my problem was that the default location for FUSEKI_BASE was not writable by the user under which fuseki is running.
Solved (in my case) by doing this: export FUSEKI_BASE=/usr/local/etc/fuseki2 mkdir -p $FUSEKI_BASE A more careful read of https://jena.apache.org/documentation/fuseki2/fuseki-run.html#fuseki-web-application would have solved the problem faster; hopefully this will help others, at least. [image: email_sig_logo_vert.png] Jeff Lerman AI Scientist www.invitae.com [image: email_sig_social_linkedin.png] <https://www.linkedin.com/in/jefflerman/> On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 4:51 PM Jeff Lerman <jeff.ler...@invitae.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I’m trying to get Fuseki running on my Mac laptop to start some > experimenation, and can’t seem to get it going. I’m a Tomcat novice so I’m > not sure what I might be doing wrong. > > I do have Java installed (using v1.8 from AdoptOpenJDK) and Tomcat is > responsive. I can get Fuseki installed inasmuch as its listed in the > Applications section in the Tomcat management GUI - but it won’t start. > > When I try to start Fuseki using the “Start” button in the Tomcat GUI, I > get an error message: "FAIL - Application at context path [/fuseki] could > not be started”. > > More details: > Tomcat version: Apache Tomcat/9.0.22 > JVM version: 1.8.0_212-b04 > At the commandline, “java -version” yields: > > openjdk version "1.8.0_212" > > OpenJDK Runtime Environment (AdoptOpenJDK)(build 1.8.0_212-b04) > > OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (AdoptOpenJDK)(build 25.212-b04, mixed mode) > > Fuseki2 version: 3.12.0 > > I installed Tomcat via brew, as in “brew install tomcat”. I installed > Fuseki by copying fuseki.war under the Tomcat webapps directory, and it was > automatically expanded by Tomcat so that I now have …/webapps/fuseki/. > > Any assistance gratefully accepted! > > > [image: email_sig_logo_vert.png] > > Jeff Lerman > > AI Scientist > > www.invitae.com > > [image: email_sig_social_linkedin.png] > <https://www.linkedin.com/in/jefflerman/> >
