Re: First Deployment Help
Re: First Deployment Help
- Subject: Re: First Deployment Help
- From: Scott Winn <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 13:05:20 -0700
On May 2, 2007, at 12:47 PM, Chuck Hill wrote:
On May 2, 2007, at 12:35 PM, Scott Winn wrote:
On May 2, 2007, at 12:01 PM, Chuck Hill wrote:
On May 2, 2007, at 11:55 AM, Scott Winn wrote:
On May 2, 2007, at 10:53 AM, Chuck Hill wrote:
Hi Scott.
First, have you read Apple's Deployment Guide. It is full of
good and important information.
Yup. And I'll be reading it again soon I fancy. The boss is
going nuts. This was supposed to be deployed tomorrow.
At least it was not yesterday. :-P
I own so much to my immaculate sense of timing. 8-P
"Deployment? No sweat! It's not like I'm doing anything
especially tricky." -me
What could possibly go wrong?
Didn't I see that in a movie somewhere? "Pete 'Dead Meat'
Thompson. . . is dead"
On May 2, 2007, at 9:30 AM, Scott Winn wrote:
Hello Group,
I am having trouble getting my first WebObjects app deployed.
Using XCode
You have my sympathies.
and Mac OS X Server 10.4.9 on a G5
I went into my project directory with the terminal and
compiled the project with . . .
sudo xcodebuild install -configuration Deployment DSTROOT=/
sudo xcodebuild install -configuration WebServer DSTROOT=/
MyApp.woa made it successfully to /Library/WebObjects/
Applications but there is no sign of WebServerResources in
the /Library/WebServer/Documents/WebObjects. (Need to move
MyApp.woa to the folder manually, Problem 1)
I launched the above app by dragging MyApp (executable) in the
MyApp.woa package to the terminal and hitting return. It runs.
That is no small miracle. You need to cd into the MyApp.woa
directory first for everything to run OK.
The browser auto launches (not sure why) and the URL is
hostname.local:port/cgi-bin/WebObjects/MyApp.woa like a
development build. Any attempt to see it from the website's
domain name fails. I also get a JDBC Adaptor Exception when
the database is queried. (FrontBase Framework not available I
expect, Problem 2)
What do you expect running it from the command line? That is
not proper deployment and tells you nothing. Configure it in
JavaMonitor. Launch it from there.
Only tried it because the "Standard Deployment" guide on
Programming:WebObjects WikiBooks said to do it.
wotaskd seems to be up and running (I can go to http://
localhost:1085/ and see the xml anyway).
Java Monitor is running.
DNS is good (to the router at least) in forward and reverse
lookup. I have no local network DNS service running. My
server's hostname is not localhost. /etc/hostconfig HOSTNAME=-
AUTOMATIC-. I remember reading about some Server Monitor
issue if you didn't have a local DNS service and your hostname
was different, but somehow (in my very limited understanding
of all things server) it didn't seem to apply to my situation.
First try to setup the app with Java Monitor. . .
Java Monitor will only take the server's local IP as a Host.
It can't find the server if I try to add a host with the
site's domain name (that points to the router, that forwards
port 80 to the server).
Sounds like a DNS lookup problem. Fix this before continuing.
What should the Host in Java Monitor look like?
foo.bar.com
with a tiny IP below it
Local or my outside IP?
The real one, the outside one. Which should also resolve
internally as well.
Ok. At least now I know what I should be trying to setup. The
outside IP makes it to the webserver internally and externally. Just
can't get the app running on it.
The Apple example shows a domain name with an IP. I can get a
domain name (web address) by opening up wotaskd's port 1085 to
the outside world on my router, otherwise Java Montior says it
can't find the server.
That seems wrong. JM should be behind the firewall, not in front
of it.
Seemed wrong to me too, but that is the only way (so far) that I
can get Java Monitor to accept "mysite.com" as the host. I don't
have any local DNS service running. And the server's hostname is
not set to localhost, if that is an issue i.e. it doesn't say
localhost.local in the URL when the WO app launches in developer
mode.
It sounds like what you have is a DNS configuration problem. I am
CCing Sacha on this to see if he has any ideas.
I appreciate that. I think I have made it pretty clear that I'm no
expert on anything DNS issues included.
If I use the server's local IP for the host, I get No Instance
or App not found.
I don't know what to do or even try. Everything is very
standard. One server, one router, one domain name, no virtual
hosts, etc. The website URL works. The WebObjects app runs
locally, but I can't get it to the outside world. If an outside
web connection can get to my server what is preventing it from
getting to my WebObjects application?
How do you have all these boxes setup WRT the firewall?
One box for development and deploying and it's behind the
firewall. Right now I've setup port 80(www), 1085(wotaskd), and
2001(the port Java Monitor keeps giving my app instance) on the
router to forward to my server's local IP.
Only port 80 and 443 ( if using https) should be open.
Ok. If I should be able to configure a host without opening it up to
the outside world I will close down 1085.
Thanks yet again,
Scott
I setup two hosts one on the local IP and the other on the
domain name just so I could see one instance of the app running
and the other trying to run. It is not a permissions problem
(see below).
The WO app is setup and running (or at least Java Monitor says
it is), but . . .
Clicking the Instance link gets "No instance available"
http://<website>/cgi-bin/WebObjects/MyApp.woa/1
Clicking the App name link gets "The requested application was
not found on this server"
http://<website>/cgi-bin/WebObjects/MyApp
Clicking the IP address gets "Can't connect to the server"
http://<Local IP Address>:2001/
I also get "Deaths" showing up after it has been running for a
short time. No idea why. It is not like anyone is using it.
It is crashing. Check the app log.
It didn't produce any logs in the last location I gave it (when
It was crashing). Now that I have changed it to /tmp it hasn't
crashed (yet). It does say that it is running and waiting for
requests.
Second attempt. . .
I set the Router to pass port 1085 to my local server IP. Now
I can setup the site's domain name as a host in Java Monitor
(and it shows my outside IP address under the hostname), but I
can't start an instance. In Detail View the On / Off switch
keeps going back and forth.
Could be a permissions problem.
http://www.gvcsitemaker.com/gvc.webobjects/
faq&mode=single&recordID=19193&nextMode=list
Thanks for the link. the sudo -u appserver commands work ok
for /Library/WebObjects/Applications/MyApp.woa/MyApp and the
logging location. I changed the log location to /tmp just to be
safe.
Still the same problems described above.
Any continued assistance is even more appreciated.
Scott
Third attempt . .
I let the router get through to port 2001, where it seems to
set the first instance. Still no joy. Not surprising since
the Status switch in Detail View is still flipping on and off.
I don't know what to try next. I could use changeip and try
to put the hostname back to localhost, but I'm not sure how to
use it. My IP was DHCP, now it is static (changed maybe a
month or so back). I'm not sure which IP to give changeip or
how I could possibly give it a former DHCP address. I didn't
run changeip when I went over from DHCP to static. I don't
know if that matters or not.
The first two problems I mentioned don't seem to apply to the
larger issue. I have a very standard configuration here. I'm
not trying to do anything fancy, just make a WO app with a few
extra frameworks available to the outside world.
Thanks for any assistance.
Scott
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