The road less traveled…<\/p>\n
Well, of course, I am attempting to go my own way on this one. I want to install Liferay 4.2.2 on Tomcat 5.5.23 without having Liferay become the root context. In other words, I want my Liferay and I want my other webapps, too.<\/p>\n
Why am I being fussy about this? Well, I don’t know. I’m not particularly attached to the default Tomcat homepage, straight out of the box. But I guess I just want finer-grained control over my Tomcat webapps. That way, if I wanted to install another rev or Liferay, or another CMS someplace else, I can just configure such as I please and assign a new URL for it – rather than getting confused about which Liferay is currently at the root context.<\/p>\n
So, here I am following the directions<\/a> and installing Liferay. “Connect the dots… La la la la…” Well, I’ve gotten to the part where I’ve renamed the file ROOT.xml to liferay.xml…<\/p>\n Well, things didn’t work right off the bat because I didn’t have log4j installed. So, I downloaded it and tried to compile it, but this being a fresh computer, I didn’t have ant, so I went and got that<\/a>.<\/p>\n I tried to compile log4j and got an “invalid target: 1.1” error, which upon further research, I found a post which suggested I downgrade my Java JDK – which I did, since I’m not doing anything that takes advantage of the new JDK.<\/p>\n To get log4j working in Tomcat, I added the log4j-1.2.14.jar to $CATALINA_HOME\/common\/lib\/ , then I grabbed a basic configuration example from the web and put the log4j config file at $CATALINA_HOME\/common\/classes\/log4j.properties. I cranked Tomcat, and life was good, as far as fixing the “Set up logging properly” error goes.<\/p>\n Now it’s just plain old blowing up – Liferay won’t start properly. But at least now I have logging, so I know where the stack trace goes now….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The road less traveled… Well, of course, I am attempting to go my own way on this one. I want to install Liferay 4.2.2 on Tomcat 5.5.23 without having Liferay become the root context. In other words, I want my … Continue reading