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Dear Andrey

Thanks for your data. I think we are on the right track.

I can reproduce the behaviour you described when I remove the requested
page. The paths for Tomcat Base and User Context look reasonable, therefore,
my guess is that something with the paths in vif.properties is not ok.

Concluding from the data you provided I would suggest that you set the path
properties in vif.propertis as follows:

org.hip.vif.docs.root=C:/java/Tomcat 4.1/webapps/vifapp/
org.hip.vif.website.root=./
org.hip.vif.code.root=C:/java/Tomcat 4.1/webapps/vifapp/WEB-INF/conf/
org.hip.vif.logPath=C:/java/Tomcat 4.1/webapps/vifapp/logs

The meaning of this properties is as follows:
During initialisation of the application's servlet, the servlet context is
requested, in this case C:\\java\\Tomcat 4.1\\webapps\\vifapp\\, and with
this information the application finds the application's configuration file
vif.properties looking in the directory $SERVLET_CONTEXT$/WEB-INF/conf/.
Having found the configuration, the application can initialise the
properties to locate the documents.

The most important property is org.hip.vif.docs.root. This property tells
the application where to look for the html and xslt files. In our case this
property is set to C:/java/Tomcat 4.1/webapps/vifapp/ meaning that the admin
pages in english are found in C:/java/Tomcat 4.1/webapps/vifapp/admin/en/,
e.g. for the login C:/java/Tomcat
4.1/webapps/vifapp/admin/en/login_page/body.htm. For the forum part of the
application the procedure is analogous, in the case of the login the html is
looked for in C:/java/Tomcat
4.1/webapps/vifapp/forum/en/login_page/body.htm.

org.hip.vif.code.root tells the application where to look for the codelists,
i.e. GROUPSTATES.xml, QUESTIONSTATES.xml, ROLES.xml.

org.hip.vif.logPath defines where to write the log information, i.e
system.log, tracer.log and, above all, the error.log.

org.hip.vif.website.root is not used at the moment.

I'm looking forward to get good news from you.
Benno

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andy Hammer [mailto:abo...@uk...]
> Sent: Samstag, 19. Juni 2004 15:04
> To: Benno Luthiger
> Subject: RE: RE: VIF, path problems
>
>
> Hello Benno
>
> I did it when at once I downloand Vif release, but system
> didn't work until I replace relative paths in my
> vif.properties file with absolute files.
> Maybe I have done something wrong. Lets check my
> installation-specific settings:
>
> OS: Windows XP (it is my home computer)
> web-server: Apache Tomcat/4.1.27-LE-jdk14
> web-server instalations directory: C:\\java\\Tomcat 4.1
> environment variables:
>   TOMCAT_HOME = C:\\java\\Tomcat 4.1
>   CATALINA_BASE = C:\\java\\Tomcat 4.1
>
> When I put vifapp.war in C:\\java\\Tomcat 4.1\\webapps I
> start Tomcat and type in browser:
>
> http://localhost:8080/vifapp/admin?requestType=smoke
>
> I see the next output:
>
> Application: Release ?.?.?
> Framework: Release ?.?.?
>
> Servlet Container: Apache Tomcat/4.1.27-LE-jdk14
> Tomcat Home: C:\\java\\Tomcat 4.1
> Tomcat Base: C:\\java\\Tomcat 4.1
> User Home: C:\\java\\Tomcat 4.1
> Servlet Context: C:\\java\\Tomcat 4.1\\webapps\\vifapp\\
>
> Java
> Vendor: Sun Microsystems Inc.
> Version: 1.4.0_01
> Version Virtual Machine: 1.4.0_01-b03
> Version Runtime: 1.4.0_01-b03
> Java Home: C:\\java\\sdk\\jre
> Class Path: C:\\java\\Tomcat 4.1\\bin\\bootstrap.jar
> Library Path:
> C:\\java\\sdk\\bin;.;C:\\WINDOWS\\System32;C:\\WINDOWS;D:\\ora
> cle\\home\\bin;D:\\oracle\\home\\Apache\\Perl\\5.00503\\bin\\m
swin32-x86;C:\\Program Files\\Oracle\\jre\\1.1.8\\bin;C:\\WINDOWS>
\\system32;C:\\WINDOWS;C:\\WINDOWS\\System32\\Wbem;C:\\Java\\a
nt\\bin;C:\\java\\sdk\\bin
OS: Windows XP

But when I click on "VIF Administration" item in start menu I see:

No HTML for view!

in tomcat console I see message that system could not find a file with
path (.\\webapps\\vifapp\\admin\\en\\login_page\\body.htm)

Tell me, please, where I made mistacke?

Best regards

Аndrey Kopachevsky




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Dear Andrey

> I have changed all path properties to absolute values and now
> VIF is woiking on my system.
Great.

>But It still don't work with out errors.
> Your script was create database, but it didn't populate it
> reas values, I will do is manually.
Do you have an idea why the db-installscript wasn't able to populate the
db-tables?
It would be nice if you could tell me for that I can improve the
db-installscript.

Regards,
Benno


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andy Hammer [mailto:abo...@uk...]
> Sent: Montag, 31. Mai 2004 20:17
> To: Luthiger Stoll, Benno
> Subject: VIF works!
>
>
>
> Dear Benno
> I have changed all path properties to absolute values and now
> VIF is woiking on my system. But It still don't work with out errors.
> Your script was create database, but it didn't populate it
> reas values, I will do is manually.
>
>
>
>
>
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