[IPT] Notes on configuring RHEL to run IPT (ipt-2.0-SNAPSHOT-r2482)

[Matt]

Hi all,

Some notes on my recent effort to get IPT running on RHEL- at minimum
they'll help me remember howto repeat this for real in the future.
Special thanks to Tim for the very speedy help. One quick question
now- if I configure everything is it easy to save the configuration
file, then wipe the install, then toss the config back in?

Cheers,
Matt


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Running RHEL (Realm Linux flavour), see
http://www.linux.ncsu.edu/realm_linux/. Did (all) this as a su.

Yum installed packages of note (I'm not sure if these were all
required or not, it's just the overall configuration):

java-1.4.2-gcj-compat.x86_64
java-1.4.2-gcj-compat-devel.x86_64
java-1.6.0-openjdk.x86_64
java-1.6.0-openjdk-devel.x86_64
java_cup.x86_64

xalan-j2.x86_64
xalan-j2-xsltc.x86_64
xerces-j2.x86_64
xerces-j2-scripts.x86_64

tomcat5.x86_64
tomcat5-common-lib.x86_64
tomcat5-jasper.x86_64
tomcat5-jsp-2.0-api.x86_64
tomcat5-server-lib.x86_64
tomcat5-servlet-2.4-api.x86_64
tomcat5-webapps.x86_64

I answered y to all the dependency questions on yum installs.

It took me a bit to figure out that the the webapps folder linked at

/usr/share/tomcat5/webapps or /var/lib/tomcat5/webapps

After cding there I grabbed the files

wget http://gbif-providertoolkit.googlecode.com/files/ipt-2.0-SNAPSHOT-r2482.war
wget http://gbif-providertoolkit.googlecode.com/files/ipt-geoserver-1.0-RC3.zip

Then I chowned/chgrped them to user 'tomcat' and did 'service tomcat5 restart'.

After you hit http://your.site.com:8080/ipt-2.0-SNAPSHOT-r2482 you'll have a

ipt-2.0-SNAPSHOT-r2482 folder back in webapps.  Went there, and edited

webapps/ipt/WEB-INF/classes/log4j.xml

changing the log lines to:

<param name="file" value="/tmp/debug.log "/>
<param name="file" value="/tmp/admin.log "/>

Note that the Issue 451 fix describing this problem doesn't include
the slash preceding tmp in the steps body but the attached file does
(the latter is correct).

The last trick was to:

cd /var/lib/tomcat5/common/endorsed

and do a number of "rebuild-jar-repository"

rebuild-jar-repository /var/lib/tomcat5/common/endorsed xalan-j2-serializer.jar
rebuild-jar-repository /var/lib/tomcat5/common/endorsed xalan-j2.jar
rebuild-jar-repository /var/lib/tomcat5/common/endorsed xerces-j2.jar
... and some others

The end product of the endorsed folder looks like this:

 [jaxp_parser_impl].jar -> /usr/share/java/jaxp_parser_impl.jar
 [xalan-j2-2.7.0].jar -> /usr/share/java/xalan-j2-2.7.0.jar
 [xalan-j2].jar -> /usr/share/java/xalan-j2.jar
 [xalan-j2-serializer].jar -> /usr/share/java/xalan-j2-serializer.jar
 [xerces-j2-2.7.1].jar -> /usr/share/java/xerces-j2-2.7.1.jar
 [xerces-j2].jar -> /usr/share/java/xerces-j2.jar
 [xml-commons-apis].jar -> /usr/share/java/xml-commons-apis.jar

The xalan-j2-serializer.jar was definitely needed as including this
link ultimately resolved the problem. I'm not sure which others were
required.

After all this (and at various points in the debugging) a "service
tomcat5 restart" and the site was live.