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["Friedman, Roger (CDC/CGH/DGHA) (CTR)" <rdf4@xxxxxxx>]

OK, I believe I have a working installation.  Here are some notes for whatever use they may be to others.
Environment: Ubuntu 12/Tomcat 6/DHIS 2.12.  I took out my previous kernel parameter changes, this has broken Postgres.  Since I only have about 1G of free memory, I am using MySQL until I can be sure of the units of the shmxxx kernel parameters.   
Problems overcome:
(1) a permissions problem on /home/dhis and its contents -- it was formerly owner/group dhis/dhis with 750/640 permissions for directories/files.  I tried changing it to root/dhis with 770/660, that didn't work.  Now have changed it to 777/666.
(2) a PermGen space problem -- now am using JAVA_OPTS='-Xmx2048m -Xms512m -XX:MaxPermSixe=500m -XX:PermSize=300m'
(3) errors in the connection string.  Note that 127.0.0.1 will not work as a host unless you have authorIzed non-local access; mysql:mxj does not work.  Am now using 
hibernate.dialect = org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLDialect
hibernate.connection.driver_class = com.mysql.jdbc.Driver
hibernate.connection.url = jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/dhis2

-----Original Message-----
From: olatitle@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:olatitle@xxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ola Hodne Titlestad
Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2013 9:04 AM
To: Friedman, Roger (CDC/CGH/DGHA) (CTR)
Subject: Re: [Dhis2-users] Still having problems getting started

HI Roger,

A few suggestions.

You could try to download and use a binary install of tomcat:
http://apache.vianett.no/tomcat/tomcat-7/v7.0.41/bin/apache-tomcat-7.0.41.tar.gz

Just unzip and try to start it using bin/startup.sh

Just make sure no other java process is running already.

We don't recommend hot deployment of dhis.war and I am not sure that works.

The recommended steps are:

1) Stop tomcat (if running)
2) put dhis.war in webapps/ folder (first remove any old webapps/dhis folder or webapps/dhis.war file)
3) start tomcat (bin/startup.sh)

logs/catalina.out should have details on the startup process, including detected and used hibernate.properties files and the the 10 startup rountines.

You can follow the log by e.g. issuing the command:
$tail -f logs/catalina.out (given that you are already in the tomcat install folder)

Ola
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Ola Hodne Titlestad (Mr)
HISP
Department of Informatics
University of Oslo

Mobile: +47 48069736
Home address: Eftasåsen 68, 0687 Oslo, Norway. Googlemaps link


On 25 June 2013 14:55, Friedman, Roger (CDC/CGH/DGHA) (CTR) <rdf4@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Ubuntu 12
>
> I did sudo apt-get install tomcat6 and then configured the tomcat-users.xml file.  I have put the export commands for DHIS2_HOME, JAVA_OPTS and JAVA_HOME in bash.bashrc (creating a setenv.sh did not seem to work).
>
> It may be that there is an older version of Tomcat installed on my machine as well, or perhaps I shutdown and restarted Tomcat from the wrong directory.  It seems like there is Tomcat stuff all over the place:
> At /usr/share/tomcat6 I have lib and bin directories.  bin contains startup.sh, shutdown.sh and one of the setenv.sh files I created.  No sign of webapps etc.
> At /usr/lib/apache-tomcat-6.0.35 I have bin, lib, logs and webapps.  The dhis which I deployed through the manager gui is here.  The logs dir hasn't been used in a year.  bin contains startup.sh, shutdown.sh and the other setenv.sh file I created.  conf contains the second tomcat-users.xml file I edited.
> /var/log/tomcat6 contains current logs
> /var/lib/tomcat6 contains conf, logs, server, shared, webapps.  webapps contains another dhis which I deployed through the gui manager.  conf contains the first tomcat-users.xml file I edited.
>
> Looking at the parameters on my Tomcat process, the jvm and properties are right.  logging.config.file and catalina.base point to var/lib/tomcat while endorsed.dirs, catalina.home and classpath point to usr/share.
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: olatitle@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:olatitle@xxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ola 
> Hodne Titlestad
> Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2013 8:15 AM
> To: Friedman, Roger (CDC/CGH/DGHA) (CTR)
> Subject: Re: [Dhis2-users] Still having problems getting started
>
> Are you on Linux or Windows?
> How did you install tomcat?
>
> Ola
> ------
>
> ----------------------------------
> Ola Hodne Titlestad (Mr)
> HISP
> Department of Informatics
> University of Oslo
>
> Mobile: +47 48069736
> Home address: Eftasåsen 68, 0687 Oslo, Norway. Googlemaps link
>
>
> On 25 June 2013 14:13, Friedman, Roger (CDC/CGH/DGHA) (CTR) <rdf4@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Actually not, I don't see the startup messages in the log.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: olatitle@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:olatitle@xxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ola 
>> Hodne Titlestad
>> Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2013 8:02 AM
>> To: Friedman, Roger (CDC/CGH/DGHA) (CTR)
>> Cc: dhis2-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: Re: [Dhis2-users] Still having problems getting started
>>
>> Hi Roger,
>>
>> The tomcat log will also tell you which hibernate.properties files are found and used at startup.
>>
>> Ola
>> --------
>>
>>
>> ----------------------------------
>> Ola Hodne Titlestad (Mr)
>> HISP
>> Department of Informatics
>> University of Oslo
>>
>> Mobile: +47 48069736
>> Home address: Eftasåsen 68, 0687 Oslo, Norway. Googlemaps link
>>
>>
>> On 25 June 2013 13:46, Friedman, Roger (CDC/CGH/DGHA) (CTR) <rdf4@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> When I start DHIS2 from Tomcat, I get the H2 DB rather than the DB 
>>> in my hibernate.properties file.  There are no messages.  The help 
>>> about shows my java opts at Xmx2048m and Xms512m and DHIS2_HOME as my environment variable.
>>> DHIS2 _HOME is set at the same point as my VM options and points to 
>>> the directory with my hibernate.properties file.  Help about shows 
>>> external configuration directory as not set.  Version is 2.12.11183 
>>> 2013-06-18.  Any suggestions?
>>>
>>>
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