[OFBiz] Users - How to get run ofBiz 3.0 ? I use Tomcat 5.0.27 and MySQL 4.0.20

[Andrew Zeneski]

Just to let you know some things:

We created the embedded web container for the purpose of making 
deployment easier and less cumbersome. Tomcat by default is very simple 
to configure because they do not provide very many options. However, 
this is also very limiting and when using a project the size of OFBiz 
really becomes a major pain.

My suggestion (as other people have suggested) is to use OFBiz in place 
of your existing tomcat instance. You can configure the container to 
run on port 80 just as you can w/ Tomcat. If you use the CVS version 
you will also be running in Tomcat 5.0.27.

You can mount your "legacy" web applications by creating a component in 
the hot-deploy directory. As an example we will name this "webapps" 
(i.e. OFBIZ_HOME/hot-deploy/webapps).

Do you have external libs which you place in the shared directory in 
tomcat? If so, create a lib directory in this component and place your 
libs (for your other applications) here. Do you have configuration 
files too? If so, create a config directory and place them there.

Now, create a new directory for your webapps and place them all inside.

Finally, create a ofbiz-component.xml file and mount your lib & config 
directory, and each web app you want to mount. There are examples of 
this file in each existing component.

Now, when you startup OFBiz your Tomcat webapps will also load inside 
the container.

We also support (in current CVS) the ability to use Apache Commons 
Daemon Project (jsvc) for starting OFBiz on port 80 without the 
security risk of running completely as root. This project also supports 
running as a windows service.

Hope this helps ease some pain!

-Z

On Aug 3, 2004, at 12:08 PM, dfai at wella.de wrote:

> Hi,
>
> i am new to ofBiz and i have really massive problems.
> This projects seems interesting, but i have problems from the start 
> and i
> found nowhere help.
>
> The first thing is, that i found no actuell documentation for ofBiz 
> 3.0.
> I am a very beginner, have no experience with ofBiz and i hope that the
> community can give me a step by step explanation
> how to get this app started on my following system.
> The best will be to explain it to me very simple :-)
>
>> From copying the files to the apache folder, changing xml files for 
>> working
> , configure mysql, etc etc etc.
>
> You can believe me i tried it for more hours but for zero success :-(
>
> My System:
>
> - i downloaded the ofBiz 3,0 files...
> - Tomcat 5.0.27 and MySQL 4.0.20
>
> I have tomcat run on port 80 and all other apps are running on Tomcat, 
> so i
> have no choice for an other server.
>
> pleaaaase help me.
>
>
>
>
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