RE: Virtual XWiki problems

Hi Tim, One of the main problems there is that you're using localhost in your configuration - which as it stands is not accessable outside your physical pc by design (this applies pretty much to all operating systems). This is because localhost is treated as a special entity. For XWiki to understand what you're wanting to do, you're going to have to use the actual name of the pc where XWiki is installed (and not localhost or even the ip address for that matter). If you're on a TCP/IP network, each pc on the network requires a name - so you should already have a domain name to work with. In my case, I'm using a deep domain name ([virtualname].servername.d1.d2.domain.com, with altered [virtualname]'s for each virtual xwiki instance) which XWiki uses without any problems. -> Instead of a virtual XWiki, you could try to run seperate full xwiki installations - I'm not sure if the linking is fixed yet (it was a bug when v1.0Beta1 was released); if it is fixed this is as simple as copying the xwiki folder to a new name once the war is expanded by tomcat. Accessing the different xwiki sites would be a matter of changing the \xwiki\ string in the URL (if that makes sense - it's late wednesday and I had an really early morning). -> On the other hand, if you're really keen on a virtual XWiki setup and you've got access to a knowledgable network administrator you'll probably find the configuration will take a few minutes; whether using LMHOSTS (a very bad idea for more than a handful of workstations on a network), or setting up DNS forward addresses. PS: Please keep all replies/queries in the group, this ensures that this problem can be researched in future. Also, as my domain stems from ________________________________ From: Campbell, Timothy D [mailto:tcampbell106@wssu.edu] Sent: 13 June 2007 16:33 To: Esbach, Brandon Subject: Virtual XWiki problems Brandon, While following the documentation, I followed all the steps and created all necessary documents(except for network pointers) and classes but the problem comes when I try to fill in the server spot for the page. I put localhost one time and it gave me the fresh database but replaced my old database. Basically, I need to know how I can do this using Tomcat since the directions are mostly focused on domain names and I am not using a web host for this project. Any information you need or steps that I took let me know. Thanks, Tim PS http://localhost/xwiki/bin/view/Main/ (this is the address of my main wiki)