Thanks Vincent and Patrick, Maybe I'll try this docker thing that Vincent provided. Installing all the components separately before installing the Xwiki .war seems laborious.
Now I wish I had Ubuntu so I could use app-get to install Xwiki ;) Oliver On 31 January 2017 at 20:41, Vincent Massol <vinc...@massol.net> wrote: > > > On 31 Jan 2017, at 08:50, Patrick M. Hausen <p...@hausen.com> wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > >> I am reading these > >> <http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Drafts/BSD_Install#Attachments> > >> installation instructions. Is installing Xwiki inside a freebsd jail > >> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeBSD_jail> the recommended method? > I.e. > >> is it "strongly" recommend or is there not much to gain either way. > > > > Jails are just a form of leightweight VMs or containers (the new > buzzword) > > and I'd recommend using one to "contain" the application even if you do > > not need it right now. At any time in the future you can e.g. just > archive > > the entire jail, transfer it to a different machine and just boot it ... > > > > The problem with the cited document is different: > > > > It's completely outdated! Neither is diablo-caffe-freebsd7-amd64-1. > 6.0_07-b02.tar.bz2 > > a recommended current JRE nor is Tomcat 6 a recommended version > > of Tomcat to run a current Xwiki. > > > > And the document doesn't even mention ZFS which gives so much > > more power to the jail architecture. And iocage ... and ... > > > > If you are familiar with FreeBSD, I'd recommend setting up a > > jail on FreeBSD 11 or 10.3, installing Tomcat and MySQL and then > > trying to follow a generic "how to deploy Xwiki in Tomcat" document. > > > > Personally, even though we are running our entire hosting on > > FreeBSD, set up single application servers on whatever > > is best supported and requires the least work. And since > > apt based installation of Xwiki is so much simpler, I run it on > > Ubuntu. > > Yes apt is most likely the simplest solution, even though installing XWiki > is also quite easy if you know how to install a servlet container (such as > Tomcat) + a database (such as MySQL). > > FTR I’ve also published recently a docker container that contains > everything setup, including a libreoffice server for office imports/view. > See https://hub.docker.com/r/xwiki/xwiki-mysql-tomcat/ > > I’ll soon document that on xwiki.org. > > Thanks > -Vincent > > > > > > HTH, > > Patrick > > -- *Oliver Marc Angélil* PhD Candidate at the University of New South Wales, Australia *http://web.maths.unsw.edu.au/~oangelil/oliver/page_oliver.html* <http://web.maths.unsw.edu.au/~oangelil/oliver/page_oliver.html>
