[midPoint] Deployment issues

[Ivan Noris]

Good idea, but according to the log, no: 

Setting midpoint.home to '/usr/share/tomcat8/midpoint'. 

midpoint.home = /usr/share/tomcat8/midpoint/ 

(so no "webapps") 
BTW are you starting the Tomcat as root? MidPoint will try to create the midpoint.home directory and its content (so it must be writeable). Specifically, config.xml will be created there upon the first start. 
No other thoughts yet; I may be able to install Tomcat 8 on my Ubuntu as well later. 

I 

----- Original Message -----

> From: "Jason Everling" <jeverling at bshp.edu>
> To: "midPoint General Discussion" <midpoint at lists.evolveum.com>
> Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2016 5:41:13 PM
> Subject: Re: [midPoint] Deployment issues

> Isn't the midpoint home folder created as 'midpoint' by default and the
> webapp by default is 'midpoint' ? I would think that those can collide if
> they are both in tomcat webapp directory?

> JASON

> On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 9:31 AM, Ivan Noris < Ivan.Noris at evolveum.com >
> wrote:

> > Hi Brian,
> 
> > we are deploying the midpoint.war also to webapps folder, so that certainly
> > works.
> 
> > When you changed server.xml, didn't you accidentally made some typo?
> 

> > Also can you paste more from catalina.out?
> 

> > Thanks,
> 
> > Ivan
> 

> > > From: "Brian Ly" < Brian.Ly at uhn.ca >
> > 
> 
> > > To: " gustav.palos at evolveum.com " < gustav.palos at evolveum.com >,
> > > "midPoint
> > > General Discussion" < midpoint at lists.evolveum.com >
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> > > Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2016 5:18:20 PM
> > 
> 

> > > Subject: Re: [midPoint] Deployment issues
> > 
> 

> > > Yes, I installed based on those instructions,
> > 
> 

> > > I installed JDK7 and tomcat8 on Ubuntu 16.04 using the apt-get install
> > > method. Then I used wget to download midpoint to the server and extracted
> > > it
> > > using tar. I then moved the war file into the tomcat webapps folder and
> > > changed the server.xml to change the size limitation. Tomcat creates a
> > > midpoint folder in the webapps directory since I did not change the
> > > location
> > > of the MidPoint Home Directory (midpoint.home) but it should be able to
> > > deploy in the tomcat webapps directory right?
> > 
> 

> > > Brian
> > 
> 

> > > From: midPoint [mailto: midpoint-bounces at lists.evolveum.com ] On Behalf
> > > Of
> > > Pálos Gustáv
> > 
> 
> > > Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2016 12:26 AM
> > 
> 
> > > To: midPoint General Discussion
> > 
> 
> > > Subject: Re: [midPoint] Deployment issues
> > 
> 

> > > Hi Brian,
> > 
> 

> > > do you install midpoint & configure it over this manual?
> > 
> 

> > > https://wiki.evolveum.com/display/midPoint/Installation+Guide
> > 
> 

> > > is configured midpoint.home directory writable for the user, who run the
> > > tomcat?
> > 
> 

> > > Gustav
> > 
> 

> > > 2016-08-24 22:35 GMT+02:00 Ly, Brian < Brian.Ly at uhn.ca >:
> > 
> 

> > > Hi
> > 
> 

> > > I am trying out midpoint and I cannot seem to deploy it using tomcat. I
> > > am
> > > receiving a “FAIL - Application at context path /midpoint could not be
> > > started” error message in tomcat when I try to deploy midpoint.
> > 
> 

> > > Can you please assist me?
> > 
> 

> > > I am running Ubuntu server 16.04, tomcat 8, latest midpoint release,
> > > latest
> > > java jdk
> > 
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