Hi Andrew,
I have a lot of problems doing the same as you. I want to get Xindice working
with Tomcat 5.0.18. on
Windows2000. Unfortunately I started with the stable Xindice 1.0 which turns
out to be quite
different from 1.1b3. This was not clear from the documentation.
I am currently trying
http://xml.apache.org/xindice/guide-administrator.html#Installing+the+Server
I suppose that this is what you have done with no luck.
For Xindice 1.0 I have found this tool for updating the database:
http://titanium.dstc.edu.au/xml/xmldbgui/
I have not tried it on 1.1b3
This is not much help - I know.
/Kim Daugaard
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01/27/2004 12:53 Subject: Xindice 1.1b3
install/configuration frustrations on Windows XP
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to xindice-users
I have spent several hours trying to get Xindice working properly on Windows
XP. As the README file
states the documentation is badly out of date.
I have Tomcat 5.0.18 installed and Xindice 1.1beta3.
Tomcat runs fine on http://localhost:8080/ and I can access Xindice on
http://localhost:8080/xindice/ since I renamed the WAR file to xindice.war. I
can navigate in the
browser to database.xml without problems and look at an empty <database />
element.
So far so good.
The brick wall arrives when I want to add data to Xindice. I assume (and it
isn't clear otherwise
from the documents as far as I can see) that I should use the command line
tool. But there is no
information about how to get that running. The configuration section on
http://xml.apache.org/xindice/community/howto/index.html is totally blank!! So
not much help there.
I installed the WAR file from the war.zip download which doesn't include the
.jar file. The command
line tool seems to be only available if the zip file for the jar is downloaded
too. I unzipped both
the war.zip and jar.zip into c:\xindice-1.1b3.
I have tried so many permutations there is no way I can remember them.
The current situation is that Tomcat is installed in c:\Tomcat 5.0.18 (Yes,
there is a space in the
directory name). xindice.war (Yes I renamed it from xindice-1.1b3.war or
something like that) is
installed in webapps and runs correctly.
I have the rest of Xindice in c:\xindice-1.1b3.
Opening a command window and entering echo %environment variable% shows
JAVA_HOME - c:\j2sdk1.4.2_03
CATALINA_HOME - c:\Tomcat 5.0.18 (with a space in it)
XINDICE_HOME - c:\xindice-1.1b3
Somewhere in the docs (not sure if that part is outdated or not) it mentions
adding files to the
PATH. Which ones?
I added c:\xindice-1.1b3\bin to the end of the PATH.
The current error if I type *xindice* from c:\xindice-1.1b3\bin is here:
java.io.FileNotFoundException: c:\xindice-1.1b3\config\commands.xml (The system
cannot find the path specified)
at java.io.FileInputStream.open(Native Method)
at java.io.FileInputStream.<init>(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xindice.tools.XMLTools.initCommandsDocument(XMLTools.java:
185)
at org.apache.xindice.tools.XMLTools.init(XMLTools.java:171)
at org.apache.xindice.tools.XMLTools.process(XMLTools.java:210)
at org.apache.xindice.tools.XMLTools.main(XMLTools.java:124)
ERROR : c:\xindice-1.1b3\config\commands.xml (The system cannot find the path sp
ecified)
Unzipping both the war.zip and jar.zip hasn't created a config directory nor a
commands.xml file in
that directory. Looking at all directories under c:\Tomcat 5.0.18 fails to
reveal a config directory
or a commands.xml file. A Search fails to show a commands.xml anywhere on my
machine.
So I am thoroughly confused and stuck.
So can I take steps from the setup I have tried fully to describe to get
Xindice working so I can
add data to the database? Or do I need to start again? If the latter, then how?
Is there a way to add data to the database without using the command line? I
suspect from the
documentation that the answer is No (I don't want to try programmatic access at
present).
At the moment I no longer trust the documentation. If I knew enough to
distinguish which parts of
the documentation were accurate or not I wouldn't be in this difficulty. And I
have no way other
than this lengthy plea for help to fill in the blanks in the documentation.
Please, please, please can somebody bring the documentation up to date? ... Oh
and help me get this
working.
Thanks.
Andrew Watt
