[Dspace-general] Tomcat not serving Dspace on Ubuntu - NOW FIXED!!

[Robert Tansley]

There's a new Wiki page that would be perfect to post your guide:

http://wiki.dspace.org/DspaceGuides

Rob

On 27/06/06, Munro L G <munrol at sun.ac.za> <munrol at sun.ac.za> wrote:
>
> Hi everyone
>
> Glad to report that my test server is running 100% on Ubuntu Server
> LTS!!  Thanks goes to Matthew Newton for his earlier post on Tomcat
> security, sharing his experience on Debian.
>
> I will install our newly purchased server very soon, obviously following
> my own installation instructions to verify every detail.  I would like
> to make it publicly available to all interested parties as a easy
> install guide.  If anyone is interested or want to point me somewhere to
> post/mail it, I'll gladly oblige.
>
> Regards,
>
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> -----Original Message-----
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> From: dspace-general-bounces at mit.edu
> [mailto:dspace-general-bounces at mit.edu] On Behalf Of Munro L G
> <munrol at sun.ac.za>
> Sent: 27 June 2006 07:48
> To:
> Subject: [Dspace-general] Tomcat not serving Dspace on Ubuntu
>
>
> Hi everyone
>
> I was wondering a couple weeks ago if anyone has ever worried about the
> Operation System security, its not as if you want to upgrade your Fedora
> installation every 9 months, because fedora doesn't issue system updates
> after a new version is released.  Since Ubuntu 6.06 LTS came out, I
> thought it may be very viable to do a DSPACE install on that OS instead,
> especially as it has 5 years support (which no other current linux OS
> will give you.)  So I took the plunge, hoping to provide installation
> instructions for others on completion.
>
> I managed to install everything without a glitch, and you even getting
> official SUN supported JAVA packages.  Not much to do, pop in the CD,
> set up our local university repository, opened synaptic and installed
> everything needed without a glitch.  The only additional setup for the
> system besides clicking was to point out JAVA_HOME in /etc/environment,
> reboot and Tomcat works 100% on port 8180.  Up to this point the install
> was still under an hour.  I then changed the dspace.cfg, copied the
> postgresql-8.1-407.jdbc2.jar into the source, created the install
> directories with permissions, created the db, compiled successfully,
> copied the .war files, created the admin account, rebooted tomcat.  But
> no, it didn't work.
>
> I have tried to compile using sudo, but that doesn't compile. I tried
> importing the application from the manager console without success.  I
> changed the access permissions and ownership to tomcat5, and then root,
> on everything I could find, still no pleasure.  The logs does point to
> some permission issue, but I don't know tomcat well enough to solve the
> issue at hand.
>
>
> If anyone can please help, please I'll REALLY appreciate it and
> undertake to post my installation steps in detail for newbies on
> completion.
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Laurence Munro
>
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