Install complete!

After doing some testing of Roller on my local box, i finally moved the app over to my hosting provider. i also copied over mail.jar and activiation.jar to ~tomcat/common/lib and restarted the server. Things went pretty well. The only gotcha i found during testing was that i was already using Hibernate 3.2GA for some other projects and thought this version would work for Roller. It did not. So i went back and downloaded version 3.1.2. All the support files were the same, only the hibernate3.jar file needed replacing. Not sure why, i was more interested in moving on with the install, but i should have known. Anytime the documentation gets specific about a version, there is usually a reason. Here's the current config:

• JDK 1.5.08
• Tomcat 5.5.20
• MySQL 5.0.27 using Connector/J 5.0.3
• Roller 3.0-incubating

Oh yeah, one other thing i did was rather than create the roller.xml in ~tomcat/conf/Catalina/localhost dir, i created a context.xml in a new folder called META-INF at the same level as the WEB-INF under the roller webapp. And since i deployed roller under ~tomcat/webapps, i also removed the docBase attribute from the Context element.

If you are curious, the error i received while trying to use Hibernate 3.2 was:

FATAL 2007-02-06 13:03:42,547 HibernateRollerImpl: - Error initializing Hibernate

java.lang.IllegalAccessError: tried to access method net.sf.ehcache.CacheManager.()V from class org.hibernate.cache.EhCacheProvider

	at org.hibernate.cache.EhCacheProvider.start(EhCacheProvider.java:124)

	at org.hibernate.impl.SessionFactoryImpl.(SessionFactoryImpl.java:183)

	at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.buildSessionFactory(Configuration.java:1218)

	at org.apache.roller.business.hibernate.HibernatePersistenceStrategy.(HibernatePersistenceStrategy.java:65)

	at org.apache.roller.business.hibernate.HibernateRollerImpl.(HibernateRollerImpl.java:70)

	at org.apache.roller.business.hibernate.HibernateRollerImpl.instantiate(HibernateRollerImpl.java:85)

Posted at 01:17PM Feb 06, 2007 by Robert Eister in Software  |  Comments[0]