Re: Deployment Issue on Linux - Help Troubleshooting PLEASE
Re: Deployment Issue on Linux - Help Troubleshooting PLEASE
- Subject: Re: Deployment Issue on Linux - Help Troubleshooting PLEASE
- From: Rich <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 17:24:42 +1300
OK, I'll give that a try now, I didn't have all the check ticked.
Also my Unix ClassPath (from you previous message) was showing a mix of locations for the frameworks, so hopefully this will sort that out.
On 13/03/2012, at 5:19 PM, Chuck Hill wrote:
> I meant all of the ones that your app is using, including the WebObjects frameworks that it is using. The goal is one self contained directory. There are not transitive dependancies between frameworks so if a framework is NOT included in your application project, then you don't need it. This should take care of it automatically:
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> On 2012-03-12, at 9:15 PM, Rich wrote:
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>> When you say "Embed the Framework (All of them)" you mean only the ones relevant to my App right? - or do you mean ALL of the Wonder frameworks
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>> On 13/03/2012, at 4:48 PM, Pascal Robert wrote:
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>>> Le 2012-03-12 à 23:29, Chuck Hill a écrit :
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>>>> Hi Rich,
>>>>
>>>> On 2012-03-12, at 8:09 PM, Rich wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> This is my first post to this list, so apologies if my protocol is not correct, or I miss something.
>>>>
>>>> Not much of a worry about that around here, we don't bite. This is not your average place on the Internet.
>>>>
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>>>>> I've been pulling my hair out for nearly a week now as I can't get my WO application running on my Linux server.
>>>>
>>>> Deployment is almost always a source of frustration and anguish. You are not alone.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> I am a Noobie to WebObjects (1st project), and developed a back end web-service for an iPhone / iPad application prototype project I was contracted to do.
>>>>> The project is at the point of completion, and I've been trying to make the WO application (Which runs just fine in Eclipse), work on the deployment server so I can hand it over (The Linux machine is running in VMWare).
>>>>>
>>>>> So, I have followed (several times), the 'Setup' and 'Deployment' instructions on http://wiki.wocommunity.org/display/WO/Deploying+on+Linux and think that I have everything deployed OK (Application and frameworks).
>>>>
>>>> I will gently suggest that this is your first and root problem. Embedding the frameworks (all of them!) in the Application can avoid so very many headaches. And who likes a painful deployment?
>>>
>>> +1 !
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>>>>> When I start up the WO application instance from the Java Monitor it seems to launch OK - The application log seems to have no issues and states the URL and "Waiting for requests...", it's just when I make a request (GET) just using a browser, I don't get any response data - No error at all in the browser, just an empty / blank page - I know I should be getting some data back as there's data to serve for the request.
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>>>> You should be getting something back, even if just a short error message.
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>>>>> The WO application is a fairly simple and has been based upon the ERRestRouteExample included with the ProjectWonder sources, but as I said I know the application runs just fine if launched form Eclipse (with the Eclipse http engine).
>>>>>
>>>>> I've got a suspicion it's something in my Apache setup, but I can't for the life of me think / see what it is - I'm not even use I need Apache as I don't need to serve any HTTP pages, just JSON response data (Please correct me if I'm wrong)
>>>>
>>>> It is not your Apache config. For a small site you don't strictly need Apache. But when you get larger and want to run multiple instances of your application to scale up, then you want Apache (or something that helps to distribute the load, Apache is probably the easy, cheap option here).
>>>>
>>>>> I know requests are getting through to the Linux server (checked with tcpdump), and I can see the request in the WO application log with the following error, which I can't see to find anywhere on the net.
>>>>>
>>>>>> [2012-3-13 2:40:43 GMT+00:00] <WorkerThread14> java.lang.InstantiationError: <jaboo.proto.websvc.Application>: Unable to create ERXWOContext54
>>>>
>>>> I think that means (and yeah, it is freaking obscure) that the version of Wonder that is on your dev machine is much older than what is on the server. Check the size/date of ERExtensions.framework/Resources/Java/erextensions.jar
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>>>>
>>>> Also check your app for code like:
>>>>
>>>> setContextClassName("ERXWOContext54");
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Chuck
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>> at com.webobjects.appserver.WOApplication.createContextForRequest(WOApplication.java:2039)
>>>>>> at er.extensions.appserver.ERXApplication.createContextForRequest(ERXApplication.java:2083)
>>>>>> at er.extensions.appserver.ERXApplication.handleActionRequestError(ERXApplication.java:1735)
>>>>>> at com.webobjects.appserver._private.WOActionRequestHandler._handleRequest(WOActionRequestHandler.java:245)
>>>>>> at com.webobjects.appserver._private.WOActionRequestHandler.handleRequest(WOActionRequestHandler.java:158)
>>>>>> at er.extensions.appserver.ERXDirectActionRequestHandler.handleRequest(ERXDirectActionRequestHandler.java:126)
>>>>>> at com.webobjects.appserver.WOApplication.dispatchRequest(WOApplication.java:1687)
>>>>>> at er.extensions.appserver.ERXApplication.dispatchRequestImmediately(ERXApplication.java:2021)
>>>>>> at er.extensions.appserver.ERXApplication.dispatchRequest(ERXApplication.java:1986)
>>>>>> at com.webobjects.appserver._private.WOWorkerThread.runOnce(WOWorkerThread.java:144)
>>>>>> at com.webobjects.appserver._private.WOWorkerThread.run(WOWorkerThread.java:226)
>>>>>> at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:636)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Mar 13 02:40:43 Jaboo[2002] WARN NSLog - <WOWorkerThread id=14 socket=null> Workerthread exiting due to error, respawning with ID 10014...
>>>>>> Exception in thread "WorkerThread14" com.webobjects.foundation.NSForwardException [java.lang.InstantiationError] <jaboo.proto.websvc.Application>: Unable to create ERXWOContext54:java.lang.InstantiationError: <jaboo.proto.websvc.Application>: Unable to create ERXWOContext54
>>>>>
>>>>> I've bypassed Apache and wotaskd and am just doing a DirectConnection (which I've enabled) to the application
>>>>>
>>>>> I would really appreciate any help of guidance on how to troubleshoot further.. as I'm about to lose what little hair I've got left - my time is running out
>>>>>
>>>>> Warmest regards and a big hug to anyone who can help (please..)
>>>>> Rich
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