Re: LAS 6.0 Installation

[Steve Cousins <cousins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks a lot Joe.  Telling the configure script to use the fully qualified
name did the trick. 

The following isn't directed to you specifically Joe since you indicated
that you weren't sure about the web server interaction.

I'm still confused about if Apache is or should be used at all.  It seems
that all of the functionality is through the Tomcat server so all I'd be
using the Apache server to do is to redirect to port 8080.  If I want the
LAS 6.0 URL to be : 

	http://rocky.umeoce.maine.edu/las6 

then I'm thinking that I'd just create the las6 directory and put an
index.html that contains a META Redirect to the port 8080 server at:

	http://rocky.umeoce.maine.edu:8080/las6/servlets/dataset

This would just make it easier for people to remember the URL and type it
in.

Is this what the recommended setup is? 

Thanks,

Steve
	

_____________________________________________________________
 Steve Cousins                 Email: cousins@umit.maine.edu
 Research Associate            Phone: (207) 581-4302
 Ocean Modeling Group
 School of Marine Sciences     208 Libby Hall
 University of Maine           Orono, Maine 04469



On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Joe McLean wrote:

> Hi Steve,
> comments below.
> 
> Steve Cousins wrote:
> 
> > I am trying to set up LAS 6.0 on a Redhat Linux 7.3 system.  I have
> > installed everything and the Tomcat server is running, however, using
> > Netscape 4.75 when I go
> > to:
> >         rocky.umeoce.maine.edu:8080/las6/servlets/dataset
> >
> > as the documentation states, I get a message box that comes up and says:
> >
> >         "The document contained no data. Try again later, or contact the
> > server's administrator."
> >
> > If I try it in Internet Explorer I just get a blank page.
> >
> > If I go to:
> >
> >         rocky.umeoce.maine.edu:8080
> >
> > I get the sample Tomcat home page.
> >
> > I am just trying to get LAS 6.0 to work with the included sample data sets
> > right now.  I ran make in the server directory and everything went well:
> >
> >         [root@rocky server]# make
> >         ../xml/perl/genLas.pl las.xml
> >         DB host: []
> >         DB login name: [root]
> >         DB password: []
> >         Serializing file:/usr2/local/src/las6/server/las.xml to database
> >         Building indexes...
> >         Resolving links...
> >         Using default catalog...
> >         Generating dataset COADS Climatology
> >         Generating dataset Levitus Climatology
> >
> > Any ideas on what could be wrong or where to look?
> >
> 
> I ran across a similar problem, and was informed that MySQL was configured so
> that host "localhost" and user "root" would not work together.  Instead, when
> I ran configure, I used the name of the computer as host.  I'm sorry I don't
> know enough to explain the details of MySQL, but try running configure again
> using  "rocky.umeoce.maine.edu" as MySQL host and see if that works.
> 
> >
> > One thing I don't understand is the interplay (if any) between the regular
> > Apache web server and the Tomcat server.  During the configuration process
> > it asked if it should check for a web server and it found apache running
> > and said "good".  It then gave me the two lines to add to the httpd.conf
> > file for that web server.  Does LAS 6.0 even use this web server?  If so,
> > how?
> >
> 
> LAS v6 does use both the Apache and Tomcat servers, the latter being used
> specifically as the Java Servlet container.  As far as the details go, I know
> as much about this as I do MySQL, someone else please take over.
> 
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Steve
> > _____________________________________________________________
> >  Steve Cousins                 Email: cousins@umit.maine.edu
> >  Research Associate            Phone: (207) 581-4302
> >  Ocean Modeling Group
> >  School of Marine Sciences     208 Libby Hall
> >  University of Maine           Orono, Maine 04469
> 
> Joe McLean
>