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[Jason Pickering <jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Roger,

I am not 100% sure why you would need both Postgres and MySQL? Is this
only for the benefit of the implementation team?
I would recommend that a decision be made which one to use, and stick
with either Postgres or MySQL. I myself would recommend Postgres, but
there are others out there that would beg to differ likely. :)

As Knut has mentioned, I have put together an installer for a couple
of different scenarios using the BitRock Installer platform. All of
the code is in trunk along with instructions how to build the
installers yourself. If you need an installer and do not want to make
it yourself, I could probably help. I am also working on a completely
portable USB version of DHIS2, which uses an embedded JRE,
FirefoxPortable, and the embedded HSQL db. Initial results seem to be
good, but it needs more testing.  There has been some requests for a
Postgresql installer, but I am not convinced (yet) that it is worth
the effort to have a single installer. Installing postgres can be
tricky, and requires admin privileges. So for now, I have left out
this part in the installer, although it could be (and was done a few
years back with another installer) done.  If there are some other
installer scenario that you might need, let us know.

I would carefully read all of the documentation when it comes to
setting up a new system. Have you generated all of the resource
tables? Have you provided names to the organizational unit levels?
This may explain why you cannot see them.  DHIS2 is not very good at
warning you about all of this stuff. :)

Regards,
Jason




On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 7:02 AM, Knut Staring <knutst@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Roger,
>
> It is excellent news, f am confident you will have full support
> (though people are less available July).
>
> Thank you for the description of steps, will go through in more
> detail. Just wanted to quickly say that in my experience, I have often
> had to restart Windows after setting the environment variable for
> DHIS/Tomcat to "see" it. There are ways to deal with this, one of
> which is using the nice BitRock installer that Jason has been working
> on. Given the number of steps in your installation guide, I would
> recommend using an installer  JRE, web server and database engine, and
> loads the Ghana database. Such an installer is used for example in
> India.
>
> In addition to the Tomcat log, please go to Help -> About DHIS 2 and
> check which database you are connecting to?
>
> Knut
>
> On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 2:04 AM, Friedman, Roger (CDC/OID/NCHHSTP)
> (CTR) <rdf4@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Folks --
>>     As you may haHve heard, Ghana Health Service is enthusiastic about
>> installing DHIS2.  On Thursday and Friday I got to meet with their
>> implementation team and tried to set them up with a working version of DHIS2
>> with which to practice.  The setup instructions are attached.
>>     Although I got the data into the DB (it can be seen using ODBC with the
>> username/password), DHIS2 does not seem to see it, I can't even get a list
>> of hierarchy levels.   Unfortunately, I neglected to get the tomcat log, but
>> will do that right away.
>>     Any help you could give me with resolving this would be great.
>> Thanks, Roger
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Knut Staring
>
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