On 07/18/2011 03:32 PM, Ashtar Communications wrote:
> Someday, I will not be clueless...
>
> I have successfully installed a local development copy of xwiki on
> Windows, but I'm having some trouble getting XEM installed on my
> shared linux server. I'm running on a shared Tomcat (5.027) container.
>
> Following both the tutorial for XEM and for XE, I have done the following:
>
> 1) Since it is a shared hosting environment and java is enabled, I
> assume I do not have to manually install either java or MySQL. I have
> created a MySQL database with the name "xwikidb" through my hosting
> control panel with username "xwikidb." I do not have the ability to
> add full privileges to the user, but I was told this would not prevent
> basic installation of XEM.
>
> 2) Renamed the "xwiki-enterprise-installer-generic-3.1-standard.war"
> file to xwiki.war and uploaded to my server. It exploded as expected
> when the server restarted to a subdirectory called "xwiki."
>
> 3) I downloaded the MySQL Java Connector and put
> mysql-connector-java-5.1.17-bin.jar in my /xwiki/WEB-INF/lib folder
>
> 4) Modified the hibernate.cfg.xml file to uncomment the MySQL section
> and comment out the default. Changed the username and password fields
> to my information.
>
> 5) Checked to make sure "localhost" was defined in /etc/hosts

OK, this should be enough.

> 6) Now what? There's no .sh file in the WAR...What do I start? I have
> already waited for Tomcat to restart, but it doesn't appear that xwiki
> is running.

How are you checking? Is there an error message displayed when trying to 
access the application? Are there any errors in the tomcat logs?

> Sure that I'm missing something obvious. Relative newbie to linux servers...

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Sergiu Dumitriu
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