November 2014 - xwiki-users@xwiki.org

[xwiki-users] Wiki Reinitialize After Every Tomcat Restart
by Doug Pham 07 Nov '14

07 Nov '14

Hi All, Is there a way to stop the Wiki from Re-initializing after every Tomcat restart? I am using version 6.2.3 Enterprise with Tomcat 6 & MySQL. Thanks, Doug Pham

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[xwiki-users] Best approach to hiding code
by Bryn Jeffries 07 Nov '14

07 Nov '14

I've written several scripts in Groovy that I want to make available to other users, but some of them contain information that I don't wish people to see (queries giving away schema details, connection passwords for JDBC/LDAP, etc). As I understand it if a person is able to view a page in which code is executed they are also able to see the source for that page. That being the case is there a recommended approach to hiding some details from prying eyes?

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[xwiki-users] XWiki 5.4.6 standalone: Failed to extract Entity Resource from URL
by Holger Zimmermann 06 Nov '14

06 Nov '14

Hello everybody, I just started to check out XWiki 5.4.6 in the "standalone" package (Win7, 32bit). It installed fine and I can play with it locally (http://localhost:8080) If I put "http://<hostname>.<domain>:8080/" in a browser on a _remote_ machine, I get a HTTP error 500 telling me: "Error number 11007 in 0: Failed to extract Entity Resource from URL [http://ricardo_tubbs.eboek.local:8080/xwiki/bin/view/Main/]" Is the standalone version meant to work just locally and that's it? If not: what should I check or fix in any way? Thanks, Holger

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[xwiki-users] Livetable results hidden from everyone but Admin?
by Jason Clemons 06 Nov '14

06 Nov '14

Hello all, I have this odd problem and I'm hoping someone can help. I was messing with permissions and now all my regular users, other than admins can't see any rows in ANY LiveTable. I've checked permissions on every related object I can think of and can't find anything out of the ordinary, but I can't think of anything else that might be causing the issue. Any help is GREATLY appreciated... Thanks in advance, Jason

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[xwiki-users] Monitoring an Xwiki stack
by Bryn Jeffries 05 Nov '14

05 Nov '14

Having made my XWiki site available to other users, I was concerned to find that the site became unusable at one point with client connections eventually timing out. I had no way to diagnose the problem, but eventually I managed to make a (slow) SSH connection to the server and restarted Tomcat, and things seemed to settle back to normal. The problem is I have no real sense of what happened and how to prevent it happening again. To that end, I'd appreciate any suggestions for monitoring the server and diagnosing poor performance. What do others typically use? I have an Apache2 server passing wiki page requests to Tomcat7 via an ajp connector, and a PostgreSQL database. My guess is that Tomcat is doing most of the work here so that's probably what I need to monitor the most.

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[xwiki-users] Including css in graphics in user-created macros (WikiMacroClass)
by Dale Davidson 04 Nov '14

04 Nov '14

Hi there. I'm trying to create a specialized macro for my wiki that is simply three divs, two of which have css background images that are attached to the macroclass page. I've tried rendering the URL into the css style attribute, and I've tried attaching the image to the same. I see it done with the the included macros, and I know that I can call images from other pages, but is there a way to use an image in css? I love xwiki, but information on this type of stuff is incredibly sparse on the Internet. Maybe I'm the only person trying to do this stuff... Thanks in advance! :) -- Dale Davidson Technical Writer / Production Diagnostics www.RanchSystems.com

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[xwiki-users] Icons on main page
by Adrien Moi 04 Nov '14

04 Nov '14

Thank you all for the quick answers :-) Sadly none of the proposed syntax work on my Main.WebHome page, but they all work on any other page of the wiki. Is there an option that I might have changed to get this result? Cheers Adrien

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[xwiki-users] icons not displaying on Main.WebHome
by Adrien Moi 04 Nov '14

04 Nov '14

Hello, I just installed XWiki on my computer to make a small Wiki for myself and I was unable to display icons on the page Main.WebHome.... Icons work fine on the other pages, but when I write [image.icon.accept] in the editor, the text icon.accept appears on the page instead of the icon.... Is that normal? Cheers Adrien

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[xwiki-users] [Proposal] Statistics
by Andreea Popescu 04 Nov '14

04 Nov '14

Hello everyone, If you’re wondering what kept the QA team busy during the last few days, the answer is a lot of testing and a brainstorming effort in order to devise a series of statistics for the product, which would be featured with the product version 6.2. We believe that the statistics ought to be implemented for the following reasons: a) They would allow for better communication between us and the community b) Each version would be more easily evaluated this way c) The product’s evolution would be more easily observable by tracking the changes in these statistics from one version to another d) A more complete overview on the long-term evolution of the product would be possible, with an opportunity to analyze a series of items in detail We consider some of the above-mentioned items to be quite important. Here is a list of the most important ones: - No. of downloads - No. of active installs - No. of tests executed / added - Jira issues fixed - by resolution, by priority, by type - Jira issues opened - by priority, by type - Closed vs open tickets - Stats for important tags: e.g. ie10, mobile, flamingo - Stats for major features: e.g. flamingo, extension manager, solr - Top overall issues reporters - Top non-XWiki SAS issues reporters - Extensions quality: issues reported (top 10 extensions) - Extensions quality: issues closed (top 10 extensions) - l10n translations: existent, missing - Performance stats Therefore, your opinion on the following issues would be of great use to us: a) The list offered a number of items that we deem important for our measurements and assessments. We would like to know whether you agree with the list and we would like to have your opinion regarding other items that we would consider inserting in the list? b) Where would you like us to publish the statistics and the conclusions that would result from their analysis? We were thinking about the following: - On a ‘Project Health’ page - On a page designated to each product version (each version would have its own page with statistics) - In the test.xwiki.org - Within a blogpost - A mix of the above We await your reply and feedback regarding the viability and usefulness of our proposal. Thank you for your time -- Andreea Zenovia Popescu QA Engineer @XWiki SAS

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Re: [xwiki-users] Monitoring an Xwiki stack
by Bryn Jeffries 02 Nov '14

02 Nov '14

Vincent wrote: > BTW if you have setup some tools and have had successes > with them to monitor xwiki instances, it would be great if > you could add some doc about them at > http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/AdminGuide/Monitoring > Thanks for the pointers. These sound like useful tools, although I think to cover the situation I encountered (web services looked up) I probably need to get more familiar with the logs, make sure they collect the right stuff, and have a command-line tool to filter it. But yes, I shall certainly contribute any experience I glean back into the wiki.

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