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By: km70569w

km70569w — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:06:58 +0000

Thanks for the reply Jeff:

- I am not able to run mysql from the command line. I tried: mysql -ualfresco -palfresco i get the following error:
ERROR 2003 (HY000): Can’t connect to MySQL server on ‘localhost’ (10061)
How ever when I run alf_start.bat file, it brings up the mysql. and then when i tried the same command, it can get into to mysql. is this normal?

- I do have mysql-connector-java-5.1.7-bin.jar in my c:\Alfresco\tomcat\lib directory.

- when I look at my log files for mysql .err file, i am getting the following error:

mysqld: Table ‘mysql.plugin’ doesn’t exist
091209 9:37:55 [ERROR] Can’t open the mysql.plugin table. Please run mysql_upgrade to create it.
091209 9:37:56 InnoDB: Started; log sequence number 0 46409
Can’t start server: Bind on TCP/IP port: No such file or directory

I do have c:\Alfresco\alf_data folder that came with the alfresco installation.

- I also modified the my.ini file to uncomment out these lines for mysql:

#Path to installation directory. All paths are usually resolved relative to this.
basedir=”c:/Alfresco/mysql/”

#Path to the database root
datadir=”c:/Alfresco/mysql/data”

Please let me know if there something that I am missing.

By: jpotts

jpotts — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:45:31 +0000

Checklist:
– Connect to your database using MySQL command line like: mysql alfresco -ualfresco -palfresco. If you are using something other than alfresco/alfresco for the database username/password, those need to be set in custom-repository.properties (db.name and db.username).
– Make sure you’ve copied the MySQL Connector JAR into your $TOMCAT_HOME/common/lib (Tomcat 5.x) or $TOMCAT_HOME/lib (Tomcat 6.x) directory.
– If you are running 3.2 or from head, note that Alfresco moved from having a separate hibernate dialect props and custom repository props into a single alfresco-global.properties file.
– Look closely at your log file to see if you are actually getting SQL-related exceptions. The problem you are seeing may not have anything to do with the database at all. For example, does your c:\Alfresco\alf_data directory already exist? If not, it needs to.

Hope that helps,

Jeff

By: km70569w

km70569w — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:13:14 +0000

Hi Jeff:

I am having difficulty connecting to mysql database. I have made changes to the custom-repository.properties and custom-hibernate-dialect.properties files to connect to mysql database that came with alfresco.

here are the changes that i made to hybernate-dialect:
hibernate.dialect=org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLInnoDBDialect

and here are the changes for custom-repository
#
dir.root=C:/Alfresco/alf_data
#ooo.exe=soffice
#ooo.user=${dir.root}/oouser

#
# MySQL connection
#
db.driver=org.gjt.mm.mysql.Driver
db.url=jdbc:mysql://localhost/alfresco

rest of all are as it is. When I run the alfresco, I get weird exception as below:

SEVERE: Exception sending context initialized event to listener instance of class org.alfresco.web.app.ContextListener
org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name ‘indexerComponent’ defined in class path resource [alfresco/core-services-context.xml]: ………..

I have tried a lot to figure this out. if you have any idea, please let me know. thanks.

By: km70569w

km70569w — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 21:38:36 +0000

Directory structure looks same as you have it in your post above.

my “package-jar” looks like this in the build.xml

but it is not creating the faces-config.xml file inside the META-INF folder. If there a way I can email you my project for you to look at?

Sorry for all these questions and i am using this blog as a forum. I have already spent 2 days trying to figure this out. It will help me go forward in the book. Thank you very much?

By: jpotts

jpotts — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 20:41:39 +0000

The “package-jar” Ant task handles that. It assumes your faces-config.xml lives in src/web/META-INF. If it is there, it will get placed in the JAR under the META-INF directory.

Jeff

By: km70569w

km70569w — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 20:25:50 +0000

Hi Jeff:

I manage to create the zip file as per yours in the above message. One thing I am missing is the faces-config.xml file which from the book says it should go into the META-INF directory inside the jar file. How do u put this file in there?

Thanks

By: km70569w

km70569w — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:18:18 +0000

Thanks a lot Jeff.

Yes I am using the build.xml from the sample project “SDK CustomAction”. But that file does not create a zip file.

I think I have problems in my build.xml file. Is it possible to email me a copy of the zip file that you have? that may actually resolve the issue that I am having.

Thanks a lot.

By: jpotts

jpotts — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:10:38 +0000

Your build directory should have two things in it: a JAR file (which might be empty) and a ZIP file. The deploy task in the build script simply unzips the ZIP file into your expanded Alfresco webapp root. It figures out where that is based on what you’ve specified in your build.properties file. So, make sure your build.properties file exists and that it has the right directories specified (use build.properties.sample as an example). And make sure your zip is being created. For example, my zip looks like this:

Length Date Time Name -------- ---- ---- ---- 0 07-14-09 14:58 WEB-INF/ 0 07-14-09 14:58 WEB-INF/classes/ 0 07-14-09 14:58 WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/ 0 07-14-09 14:58 WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/extension/ 0 07-13-09 17:36 WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/extension/model/ 1301 07-13-09 17:36 WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/extension/model/scModel.xml 487 07-13-09 17:36 WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/extension/someco-model-context.xml 1272 07-13-09 17:36 WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/extension/web-client-config-custom.xml 0 07-14-09 14:58 WEB-INF/lib/ 3637 07-14-09 14:58 WEB-INF/lib/someco-client-extensions.jar 0 07-13-09 17:36 jsp/ 0 07-13-09 17:36 jsp/extension/ 0 07-13-09 17:36 someco/ 0 07-13-09 17:36 someco/images/ 7004 07-13-09 17:36 jsp/extension/login.jsp 4508 07-13-09 17:36 jsp/extension/relogin.jsp 5063 07-13-09 17:36 someco/images/someco-logo.png -------- ------- 23272 17 files
Are you using the build.xml that came with the source?

Jeff

By: km70569w

km70569w — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:53:22 +0000

Sorry it didnt let me paste my build.xml file here. So basically what I am trying to do is, I made slight change to login.jsp file, added new image file as mentioned in the “Step by Step Packaging and Deplying” and trying to see the changes in the browser. When i run ant build on my build/xml i get the following message:
Buildfile: C:\temp\Projects\alfresco\client-extensions\build.xml
compile:
package-jar:
[delete] Deleting: C:\temp\Projects\alfresco\client-extensions\build\client-extensions.jar
[jar] Warning: skipping jar archive C:\temp\Projects\alfresco\client-extensions\build\client-extensions.jar because no files were included.
[jar] Building MANIFEST-only jar: C:\temp\Projects\alfresco\client-extensions\build\client-extensions.jar
copy jar:
[copy] Copying 1 file to c:\Alfresco\tomcat\webapps\alfresco\WEB-INF\lib
BUILD SUCCESSFUL
Total time: 187 milliseconds

Even the jar file is copied over to the lib directory of Alfresco, it contains nothing. not even the new modified jsp files. Any help on this would be highly appreciated. Thanks.

By: km70569w

km70569w — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 22:20:58 +0000

Hi Jeff:

Thanks for the quick response. Okay so I made the changes to faces-config and web-client-config-custom files as per page 42 and 44. Now to deploy this on the server I created a build.xml as per the one of you sample projects that came with sdk. when i run that build file, i get a jar file with nothing in it. I can understand that i do not have any java file currently in the project. but how do i deploy this in the server? From the text book it says, “ant deploy”. I could not get this going. Can you help? Thanks.