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[Orvalho Augusto <orvaquim@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks I followed Jason solution in Nigeria editing
dhis-support-external-**.jar

It works.

Caveman


On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 10:02 AM, Orvalho Augusto <orvaquim@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> I am disoriented with this. So I have tried to set dhis2.home on web.xml
> and the second war continues to use the DHIS2_HOME.
>
> Setting tomcat to listen different ports means to waist machine resources
> that I do not have and the second instance will be used for tests.
>
> What is the recommendation now?
>
> Caveman
>
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 5:09 PM, Bob Jolliffe <bobjolliffe@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>> On 19 August 2011 11:40, Knut Staring <knutst@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > Thanks for all the input - it has been very useful. I have come to
>> realize
>> > that this current setup should be considered temporary (until the end of
>> the
>> > year) and thinking&resources should probably now rather be dedicated
>> towards
>> > setting up two national production machines by the end of the year (one
>> for
>> > the national repository/dashboard, one for the HMIS), and these should
>> align
>> > as much as feasible with the description in the link Ola sent:
>> > http://dhis2.org/doc/snapshot/en/implementer/html/ch08.html#d5e415
>>
>> I see that this description stops short of describing the automatic
>> startup and shutdown scripts.  Does anyone have some good examples to
>> contribute?
>>
>> > In fact, we already also have a Linode, so far with only 4 GB, but that
>> can
>> > of course be increased as needed.
>> > Knut
>> >
>> > On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 12:28 PM, Bob Jolliffe <bobjolliffe@xxxxxxxxx>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> dhis-live is not really designed to be run as a service and I wouldn't
>> >> really recommend trying.  Given that it has a user interaction element
>> >> in the toolbar etc.  Running as a service is sort of the opposite of
>> >> its defining use case which is to have a minimally configured
>> >> clickable app to run on a desktop.
>> >>
>> >> I think there are lots of tips on the web regarding running tomcat as
>> >> a service.  Also HISP India has some previous experience in running
>> >> many tomcat's on a single windows server for different states.  Maybe
>> >> Bharath or John might chip in how they have set up the service.
>> >> Assuming that is, that they ran tomcat as a windows service.  Possibly
>> >> they logged in and manually started and stopped them.
>> >>
>> >> I always find it interesting when looking at the merits of windows vs
>> >> linux servers that the argument is usually given that windows is more
>> >> familiar and the hurdle to move to linux is too great.  But when one
>> >> scrapes the surface it seems that windows server skills are actually
>> >> very scarce.  People think they understand windows server because it
>> >> looks just like windows.  But you'll actually find much more
>> >> knowledgeable support in our community for setting up a
>> >> dhis+tomcat+postgres+ubuntu.  Just my two cents :-)
>> >>
>> >> Re displaying different text on hover, its not a bad idea, but not one
>> >> that anyone is likely to prioritize immediately.  Maybe create a
>> >> blueprint so the idea is not lost.  From a zero-configuration
>> >> perspective there is not much to go on mind you.  We have the options
>> >> of server port, database name or dhis home directory to distinguish
>> >> between them, but using something mangled from those would at least
>> >> provide something.  A more nicely named instance would require an
>> >> additional config parameter or a small dialog on startup.
>> >>
>> >> Cheers
>> >> Bob
>> >>
>> >> On 19 August 2011 11:06, Knut Staring <knutst@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >> > On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 2:59 PM, Bob Jolliffe <bobjolliffe@xxxxxxxxx
>> >
>> >> > wrote:
>> >> >>
>> >> >> On 18 August 2011 13:56, Knut Staring <knutst@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >> >> > On 8/18/11, Knut Staring <knutst@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >> >> >> As Ola pointed out, the remaining and important issue is the
>> >> >> >> automated
>> >> >> >> startup after a power cut.
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > In fact, this is really easy, just place shortcuts to the two
>> >> >> > dhis2-live.exe files in the Windows Startup folder:
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> >
>> http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/Run-a-program-automatically-when-Windows-starts
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Are talking about startup or logging in?
>> >> >
>> >> > Good point - that method does require the manual step of going to the
>> >> > machine and logging in.
>> >> >
>> >> > Ideally, we would create our own three services that start
>> automagically
>> >> > on
>> >> > boot. Found the following link, but have not tried it yet:
>> >> > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/251192
>> >> > Knut
>> >> >>
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > Knut
>> >> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> > --
>> >> > Cheers,
>> >> > Knut Staring
>> >> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > Cheers,
>> > Knut Staring
>> >
>>
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