January 2008 - xwiki-users@xwiki.org

Re: [xwiki-users] [Proposal] New free and community-managed farm on xwiki.org?
by sachin mittal 23 Jan '08

23 Jan '08

Hi Vincent, People who are interested in free xwiki and want to use it as an experimental tool can download it and play with it. It costs nothing for them. As far as I have seen that students and other such individuals seldom become paying customers. They typically use for project work etc. I think hosted solution should focus on paying customers only unless you want to test the scalability of xwiki real time by giving free access. Thanks Sachin Message: 6 > Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:32:41 +0100 > From: Vincent Massol <vincent(a)massol.net> > Subject: [xwiki-users] [Proposal] New free and community-managed farm > on xwiki.org? > To: XWiki Developers <devs(a)xwiki.org>, XWiki Users <users(a)xwiki.org> > Message-ID: <AA1B7724-0178-487B-9C9A-B790C670F6FA(a)massol.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes > > Hi everyone, > > Some time back XWiki SAS, the company who started XWiki had a free > online farm on xwiki.com. This farm was closed for new projects a few > months ago after XWiki SAS realized it didn't have the manpower (or > finance) to support it in a professional way. XWiki SAS still has a > professional farm offering but it's not a free farm (see > http://www.xwiki.com/xwiki/bin/view/Services/#HHosting) > . > > I'd like to discuss with you the idea of offering a free farm managed > by the xwiki community and under the xwiki.org umbrella. In essence it > means there would be 2 farms available: > * a paying one which is on xwiki.com, for professional needs > * a free one on xwiki.org for universities, individuals or anyone not > requiring guaranteed support/availability at all times > > Here's how it would work: > > * No support guarantee. All support done on the xwiki.org user mailing > list. > * No stability guarantee. We would always install the latest Platform/ > XE/XEM version on it and it would serve as a stability test for the > xwiki development team. Obviously the community will always try to > make it as stable as possible but that's not guaranteed. > * There will be several members of the community who'll have admin > access on the farm. > * We will reduce admin tasks by offering a simple UI on the farm > itself (restart, see memory stats, see blocking requests, ban a wiki, > etc) > * It will be open to anyone. However the target users will be > technical people who can support themselves to some extent. We won't > control that but it'll be mentioned on the registration page. > > XWiki SAS would pay for the machine, hosting and the initial > installation. > > I have 2 questions for you: > > 1) As a user of it, would you be interested by such a farm? Do you > think it's interesting for the xwiki project to have such a free farm? > > 2) As a community member, would you be willing to help administer it/ > support it? For this farm to work we need to find several members of > the xwiki community willing to help administer it. Here are the tasks > I can think of: > - work on the welcome page content for the farm > - work on the FAQ for the farm (like "what do I do if I've lost my > password", etc) > - help answer user questions on the list (this can and should be be > done by everyone) > > Thanks > -Vincent, with 2 hats: community developer and CTO of XWiki SAS > >

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[xwiki-users] Problem with mod_proxy
by justanotheradress 23 Jan '08

23 Jan '08

Ricardo Rodríguez wrote: > > Forget about it at the moment. If you have a running Tomcat instance it > will probably be accessible at http://localhost:8080. The number after : > is the port number at witch the standalone Tomcat http server is running. >>> Further I don't know where to put >>> xwiki exactly...I have some concerns about security... >>> > > As you are running Tomcat as a servlet container, xwiki must be copied > to your /webapps folder. If you have installed Tomcat by yourself, you > must know where its folder is. It could be under /usr/share, or under > /Library/Tomcat,... I've no Debian distribution running here. Sorry. > > So far I did the following steps: 1. Installed JAVA JDK 5 [apt-get install sun-java5-jdk] [JAVA_OPTS="-Xmx512M"] [export JAVA_HOME] [export JAVA_OPTS] 2. Installed Tomcat5.5 [apt-get install tomcat5.5 tomcat5.5-admin tomcat5.5-webapps] 3. Disabled Tomcat security [vi /etc/init.d/tomcat5.5] TOMCAT5_SECURITY=no 4. Created the xwiki database [mysql -u root -e "create database xwiki"] [mysql -u root -e "grant all privileges on xwiki.* to xwiki(a)127.0.0.1 identified by 'xwiki'"] 5. Changed hibernate.cfg.xml to <property name="connection.url">jdbc:mysql://localhost/xwiki</property> <property name="connection.username">xwiki</property> <property name="connection.password">xwiki</property> <property name="connection.driver_class">com.mysql.jdbc.Driver</property> <property name="dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLDialect</property> 6. Changed /var/lib/tomcat5.5/conf/tomcat-users.xml to <?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?> <tomcat-users> <role rolename="admin"/> <role rolename="manager"/> <role rolename="tomcat"/> <user username="tomcat" password=”tomcatpassword” roles="tomcat,admin,manager"/> </tomcat-users> 7. Made a new entry in apache2/sites-enabled <VirtualHost MyServerIP:80> ServerName MyServerIP:80 ProxyRequests On ProxyPreserveHost On ProxyVia full <Proxy *> Order deny,allow Allow from all </Proxy> ProxyPass /xwiki http://localhost:8082/xwiki ProxyPassReverse /xwiki http://localhost:8082/xwiki <Location /xwiki> Order allow,deny Allow from all </Location> </VirtualHost> 8. Changed the server.xml setting in Tomcat (uncomment the part below)   <Connector port="8082" maxThreads="150" minSpareThreads="25" maxSpareThreads="75" enableLookups="false" acceptCount="100" debug="0" connectionTimeout="20000" proxyPort="80" disableUploadTimeout="true" /> I guess I'm almost there. I can access Tomcat with MyServerIP:8180, but I can't get it to work with Apache respectively MyServerIP/xwiki. Everytime I call MyServerIP/xwiki I get an "Forbidden" message. I really don't know what to do now. Any advice would be very appreciated (I tried Google for a long time but I guess I'm just to dumb for it). -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Problem-with-mod_proxy-tp15031584p15031584.html Sent from the XWiki- Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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[xwiki-users] List-documents property has duplicates
by Paul Libbrecht 23 Jan '08

23 Jan '08

Hello list, when using list-documents as database-list property as described in: http://code.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Snippets/ListDocumentsSnippet I seem to get duplicates for each language. Then I tried: select doc.name, doc.title from com.xpn.xwiki.doc.XWikiDocument as doc grouped by doc.name where doc.web = 'MySpace' and doc.name!='WebHome') but that emptied the possible values (as output by $doc.display ('fieldName') What have I done wrong ? I'm a bit of a newbie in HQL! thanks in advance paul

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[xwiki-users] error coping a document
by Raffaele Viola 23 Jan '08

23 Jan '08

Hi all, using the "Copy a document" page with: - source document=XWiki.provaCopia - target document mySpace.provaCopia I get this result: - Copying document XWiki.provaCopia () from xwiki to xwiki: $xwiki.xWiki.copyDocument($sourcedoc, $targetdoc, $sourcewiki, $targetwiki, $language, false, $context.context) and the copy is not done. Can you help me??

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[xwiki-users] copy a page
by Raffaele Viola 23 Jan '08

23 Jan '08

Hi all, can someone explain me the meaning of "Target Doc" in the "Copy a document" page who does it works? Thanks Raffo

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[xwiki-users] XWiki upgrade from 1.0 to 1.2
by Julien Oix 23 Jan '08

23 Jan '08

Hi everyone, I want to upgrade XWiki to the latest version, using the war package. Indeed, my XWiki's encoding, as the MySQL database, are latin1 (ISO-8859-1) and with version 1.0, when I display any previous version of a page using the "History" function, accents and all special entities are displayed as "?" (I didn't find any JIRA issue matching this :) So I can't rollback any page whitout losing accents, and it's the main reason for this upgrade. Starting from http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/AdminGuide/Installation, i've read http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/ReleaseNotesXWikiEnterprise12 wich leads to http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/ReleaseNotesXWikiEnterprise112 in my case. Here what I did on a test server with its own Tomcat and MySQL containers : 1- copy from the production server the whole $webapp directory and dump the xwiki database change hibernate.cfg.xml that it talks to the copied test database restart all and check i've the same wiki 2 - delete all the content of $webapp. unjar xwiki-web-standard-1.1.2.war in this empty directory. edit /WEB-INF/xwiki.cfg (adding the xwiki.upload.tempdir line), /WEB-INF/hibernate.cfg.xml (changing the mysql connection) and /skins/albatross/global.vm (there is a little change in order to restrict registration with a password). restart all the stuff (apache, tomcat) --> I find my wiki as with the 1.0 install, but the bug is still here 3 - import the FixRCS.xar as written on the 1.1.2 release note : http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/download/Main/ReleaseNotesXWikiEnterprise11M… trying to run it --> the catalina log tells me something like that : 16:39:58,581 WARN TP-Processor7 http://xwiki.pps.jussieu.fr/xwiki/bin/view/XWiki/FixRCS?force JDBCExceptionReporter:logExceptions:71 - SQL Error: 1062, SQLState: 23000 16:39:58,583 ERROR TP-Processor7 http://xwiki.pps.jussieu.fr/xwiki/bin/view/XWiki/FixRCS?force JDBCExceptionReporter:logExceptions:72 - Duplicate entry '-492041200-Panels.' for key 1 16:39:58,586 ERROR TP-Processor7 http://xwiki.pps.jussieu.fr/xwiki/bin/view/XWiki/FixRCS?force AbstractFlushingEventListener:performExecutions:299 - Could not synchronize database state with session org.hibernate.exception.ConstraintViolationException: Could not execute JDBC batch update ... Caused by: java.sql.BatchUpdateException: Duplicate entry '-492041200-Panels.' for key 1 ... 16:40:00,209 ERROR TP-Processor7 http://xwiki.pps.jussieu.fr/xwiki/bin/view/XWiki/FixRCS?force SimpleLog4JLogSystem:logVelocityMessage:154 - Method getRenderedContent threw exception for reference $cdoc in t emplate at [7,1] Caused by: java.lang.StackOverflowError at java.util.regex.Pattern.atom(Pattern.java:1863) at java.util.regex.Pattern.sequence(Pattern.java:1743) at java.util.regex.Pattern.expr(Pattern.java:1687) at java.util.regex.Pattern.compile(Pattern.java:1397) at java.util.regex.Pattern.<init>(Pattern.java:1124) at java.util.regex.Pattern.compile(Pattern.java:817) at java.lang.String.replaceAll(String.java:2000) at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.Invoker.format(Invoker.java:699) at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.Invoker.format(Invoker.java:673) at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.Invoker.format(Invoker.java:675) ... 4 - from this point, updating this 1.1.2 install with xwiki-enterprise-web-1.2.war and the same process --> I can't even access to the previous versions of any documents, it shows me an exception. Sorry for writing a lot, now my questions :) 1 - Did I understand well the upgrade process ? Do I have to upgrade first from 1.0 to 1.1.2 and then from 1.1.2 to 1.2 ? Why running the FixRCS.xar content doesn't work after 1.1.2 upgrade ? Is that the reason why I can't update to 1.2 after, or why the bug is still there ? 2 - In which XWiki version this "special entities not displayed in old revisions with ISO-8859-1 encoding" bug is fixed ? 3 - Has someone tried the same upgrade ? Did U succeed ? Thanks, -- Julien Oix - Université Paris Diderot Paris 7 Office location : Laboratoire PPS - bureau 5C01 175 rue du Chevaleret 75013 PARIS Tel : +33 144 278 504 Fax : (+33) 1 44 27 86 54 Mobile : +33 664 392 207 --------------------------------------------- http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html

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[xwiki-users] errors while importing xwiki-enterprise-wiki-1.2.xar.zip
by [Ricardo Rodriguez] Your EPEC Network ICT Team 23 Jan '08

23 Jan '08

Hi all, After updating to XWiki 1.2 I'm trying to get the updated documents included in xwiki-enterprise-wiki-1.2.xar.zip in the installation. If I import all the documents included in xwiki-enterprise-wiki-1.2.xar.zip I systematically get the same three errors with: Main.LuceneSearch Panels.SyntaxHelp Photos.NewAlbum Only by previously removing these three documents I get a full import. These are the ERROR messages recorded in catalina.out: sh-3.2# tail -n2000 catalina.out | grep ERROR 11:52:16,486 ERROR http-80-15 http://xcontroller.xen.net/xwiki/bin/import/XWiki/Import?editor=import&spac… SimpleLog4JLogSystem:logVelocityMessage:154 - Left side ($request.withversions) of '==' operation has null value. If a reference, it may not be in the context. Operation not possible. [line 16, column 73] 11:58:05,003 ERROR http-80-17 http://test02.xen.net/xwiki/bin/import/XWiki/Import?editor=import AbstractBatcher:doExecuteBatch:61 - Exception executing batch: 11:58:05,005 ERROR http-80-17 http://test02.xen.net/xwiki/bin/import/XWiki/Import?editor=import AbstractFlushingEventListener:performExecutions:300 - Could not synchronize database state with session 11:58:05,006 ERROR http-80-17 http://test02.xen.net/xwiki/bin/import/XWiki/Import?editor=import Package:installDocument:606 - Failed to save document Main.LuceneSearch 11:58:06,476 ERROR http-80-17 http://test02.xen.net/xwiki/bin/import/XWiki/Import?editor=import AbstractBatcher:doExecuteBatch:61 - Exception executing batch: 11:58:06,478 ERROR http-80-17 http://test02.xen.net/xwiki/bin/import/XWiki/Import?editor=import AbstractFlushingEventListener:performExecutions:300 - Could not synchronize database state with session 11:58:06,479 ERROR http-80-17 http://test02.xen.net/xwiki/bin/import/XWiki/Import?editor=import Package:installDocument:606 - Failed to save document Panels.SyntaxHelp 11:58:07,261 ERROR http-80-17 http://test02.xen.net/xwiki/bin/import/XWiki/Import?editor=import AbstractBatcher:doExecuteBatch:61 - Exception executing batch: 11:58:07,263 ERROR http-80-17 http://test02.xen.net/xwiki/bin/import/XWiki/Import?editor=import AbstractFlushingEventListener:performExecutions:300 - Could not synchronize database state with session 11:58:07,265 ERROR http-80-17 http://test02.xen.net/xwiki/bin/import/XWiki/Import?editor=import Package:installDocument:606 - Failed to save document Photos.NewAlbum 11:58:09,332 ERROR http-80-18 http://test02.xen.net/xwiki/bin/skin/skins/albatross/fullscreenEdit.js Cache:cancelUpdate:423 - internal error: expected to get a state from key [xwiki:XWiki.XWikiGuest] 11:58:27,359 ERROR http-80-9 http://test02.xen.net/xwiki/bin/view/Main/ AbstractBatcher:doExecuteBatch:61 - Exception executing batch: 11:58:27,362 ERROR http-80-9 http://test02.xen.net/xwiki/bin/view/Main/ AbstractFlushingEventListener:performExecutions:300 - Could not synchronize database state with session 11:58:27,365 ERROR http-80-9 http://test02.xen.net/xwiki/bin/view/Main/ SimpleLog4JLogSystem:logVelocityMessage:154 - Method isWatchedDocument threw exception for reference $xwiki in template at [111,23] 11:59:01,372 ERROR http-80-17 http://test02.xen.net/xwiki/bin/save/XWiki/XWikiPreferences AbstractBatcher:doExecuteBatch:61 - Exception executing batch: 11:59:01,373 ERROR http-80-17 http://test02.xen.net/xwiki/bin/save/XWiki/XWikiPreferences AbstractFlushingEventListener:performExecutions:300 - Could not synchronize database state with session sh-3.2# Please, is this a problem with my installations? Something that could/must be improved in the .xar file? Let me know if more lines from catalina.out or any other test can help to work out this issue. Thanks. Best regards, Ricardo -- Ricardo Rodríguez Your EPEC Network ICT Team

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Re: [xwiki-users] [Proposal] New free and community-managed farm on xwiki.org?
by goldring, richard 23 Jan '08

23 Jan '08

Hi Vincent, It sounds like a good idea. It would provide: * a place to test out the latest XWiki builds and quickly identify issues and resolve them * a free place for people to host their websites I'd certainly consider it for my non-work related material. Regards, Richard -----Original Message----- From: users-bounces(a)xwiki.org [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Vincent Massol Sent: 23 January 2008 09:32 To: XWiki Users Subject: Re: [xwiki-users] [Proposal] New free and community-managed farm on xwiki.org? Hi Ricardo, On Jan 22, 2008, at 10:27 PM, [Ricardo Rodriguez] Your EPEC Network ICT Team wrote: > sachin mittal wrote: >> Hi Vincent, >> People who are interested in free xwiki and want to use it as an >> experimental tool can download it and play with it. It costs nothing >> for them. >> As far as I have seen that students and other such individuals seldom >> become paying customers. They typically use for project work etc. >> >> I think hosted solution should focus on paying customers only unless >> you want to test the scalability of xwiki real time by giving free >> access. > > Following this reasoning, how does Netcipia (http:// > www.netcipia.net)fit > in the proposed schema? Netcipia is another farm that could be seen as a kind of competitor to this new xwiki.org farm. However there are some differences: * the xwiki.org farm will be using the default UI (same as XWiki Enterprise) and the same features * it'll be supported by the xwiki community * it'll have latest versions installed at all times * there's no business model behind this xwiki.org farm I think the target is really different. Netcipia's idea is to propose ways for users to sell their content online whereas this farm will be more for hosting "intranets"/"web sites". Anyway the free xwiki.org farm is not fully decided yet. I'd like to see more opinions form the xwiki users and dev community about it. Thanks -Vincent _______________________________________________ users mailing list users(a)xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users Thales UK Ltd (Wells) DISCLAIMER: The information contained in this e-mail is confidential. It may also be legally privileged. It is intended only for the stated addressee(s) and access to it by any other person is unauthorised. If you are not an addressee, you must not disclose, copy, circulate or in any other way use or rely on the information contained in this e-mail. Such unauthorised use may be unlawful. We may monitor all e-mail communications through our networks. If you have received this e-mail in error, please inform us immediately on +44 (0) 1749 672081 and delete it and all copies from your system. We accept no responsibility for changes to any e-mail which occur after it has been sent. Attachments to this e-mail may contain software viruses which could damage your system. We therefore recommend you virus-check all attachments before opening. A business of Thales UK Ltd. Registered Office: 2 Dashwood Lang Road, The Bourne Business Park, Addlestone, Weybridge, Surrey KT15 2NX Registered in England No. 868273

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[xwiki-users] Registering every click on a wiki-link
by Hans-Peter Zorn 22 Jan '08

22 Jan '08

Hi, We would like to detect usage patterns of users working with xwiki. Therefore we would need to call a custom method everytime a link within xwiki is selected. Is there an easy to do that by e.g. providing a plugin? Thanks in advance, Hans-Peter

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[xwiki-users] New User Interface
by Loris Conedera 22 Jan '08

22 Jan '08

Hi, I have a problem upgrading Xwiki at release 1.2 from 1.1.2. I can't get the new rights Management interface. I replaced the WebApp and copied the files hibernate.cfg.xml, xwiki.cfg in the new version. I'm using Oracle and so I replaced the hibernate Jar. After restarting Tomcat I imported the new XAR. When I try to open "Global Rights" I get the old rights management interface. I hope someone can help me, Thanks, Loris

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