But wait – there’s more!<\/p>\n
So, I crank up my newly-running Liferay – running in its happy little webapp world, not as the root context, and some funny things are going on.<\/p>\n
First: The root context that should be there isn’t there. Instead of the warm, fuzzy Tomcat page with the geeky kittycat graphic, I get a blank page. Hmm.<\/p>\n
Second: When I load the Liferay portal, I only get two portlets: “Sign In” and “Hello, World”.<\/p>\n
So, I do some poking around as a user. My Tomcat manager webapp comes up OK, so that tells me that other webapps that I choose to install will probably work OK. (Note to self: something to consider trying.)<\/p>\n
Next, I log in as test:test on the portal. Well, now, this is cool. I get more portlets. I decide to add an Admin page. I add adminny portlets to it. I decide to add a user. I find a way to add somebody, fill out their info, hit submit….<\/p>\n
… and boom. Stack trace.<\/p>\n
Here’s a little snippet of it:<\/p>\n
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax\/mail\/internet\/InternetAddress<\/p>\n <\/code><\/p>\n I go home and sleep on this information. I also download a passel of Powerpoint presentations about installing and configuring Liferay. After reading a few of these, I decide to install the standalone version of Liferay, and play a little shell game of switching CATALINA_HOME environment variables.<\/p>\n So….<\/p>\n I download and unpack liferay-portal-tomcat-jdk5-4.2.2, futz with my environment variables, and as is my usual habit, use Cygwin<\/a> to run CATALINA_HOME\/bin\/startup.sh. And ummm….<\/p>\n ….boom. She no go. I got a honking database error, having to do with the hsql database.<\/p>\n So I try something unexpected for me, and follow the actual instructions and – in Windows – double-click on the “startup.bat” icon, and let a command shell bat file do the work. (This goes against my nature for a number of reasons I won’t get into here. Yet.) And ummmm…..<\/p>\n Yay, she works! Which just gets me more curious. And look – I see all the marketing stuff I expected to see on my little installation as a standalone webapp. Hmmmm…..<\/p>\n … I don’t see any portlets along the lines of “Hello, World”, but I do see a link where I can sign in. Who am I to argue? test:test, and life is good.<\/p>\n Now, for some mystical reason, I try rejiggering the variables around (in order to write this post), and now the Cygwin startup.sh works. It didn’t when I tried it at home – I swear!<\/p>\n Let’s add a user…. no problemo!<\/p>\n Well, maybe I should leave well enough alone for now. I’ve got two instances running (although not simultaneously), both behaving differently, and the one I really torqued with is not behaving correctly.<\/p>\n I’ll post again on this topic once I’ve actually written a portlet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" But wait – there’s more! So, I crank up my newly-running Liferay – running in its happy little webapp world, not as the root context, and some funny things are going on. First: The root context that should be there … Continue reading
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