Re: [xwiki-users] R: R: R: Office Importer: Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: invalid templateProfileDir [solved]

[attached message/solution to correct thread this time] I solved a solved a similar problem running on Fedora Linux using its standard fedora-packaged Tomcat/httpd/openoffice and Sun's Java. The problem is that the error message is deceptive. If you run the application directly, instead of from the admin panel, and then click to see error message details, you'll see the actual source of the error message. Perhaps yours is the same issue as what I had: The openoffice server is having problems reading or not finding some necessary config information buried in the directory. You have to create a shadow-UID'd (same uid as 'tomcat' under which openoffice runs different account/login/etc) user like I did at /home/OOo and start the openoffice server once as a "regular" user. Once that's done, it saves enough configuration information in the account that it will then recognize the directory and start. Details: http://nielsmayer.com/npm/XWiki24-OpenOffice.txt hidden in page when executing directly as http://xwiki/xwiki/bin/view/XWiki/OfficeImporterAdmin --> Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: invalid templateProfileDir: /home/OOo/.openoffice.org/3 fixing this required running 'oofice' out of user 'OOo' account, which setup a giant new batch of config info... Note my xwiki.properties points to the /home/OOo config info setup by the first interactive run of openoffice. 1/WEB-INF/xwiki.properties.orig 2010-06-01 15:23:48.000000000 -0700 --- xe-231/WEB-INF/xwiki.properties 2010-06-07 20:16:34.181462173 -0700 *************** *** 77,88 **** #-# [Since 1.8RC3] #-# Path to openoffice installation (serverType:0 only). #-# If no path is provided, a default value will be calculated based on the operating environment. ! # openoffice.homePath=/opt/openoffice.org3/ #-# [Since 1.8RC3] #-# Path to openoffice execution profile (serverType:0 only). #-# If no path is provided, a default value will be calculated based on the operating environment. ! # openoffice.profilePath=/home/user/.openoffice.org/3 #-# [Since 1.8RC3] #-# Maximum number of simultaneous conversion tasks to be handled by a single openoffice process (serverType:0 only). --- 77,88 ---- #-# [Since 1.8RC3] #-# Path to openoffice installation (serverType:0 only). #-# If no path is provided, a default value will be calculated based on the operating environment. ! openoffice.homePath=/usr/lib64/openoffice.org3/ #-# [Since 1.8RC3] #-# Path to openoffice execution profile (serverType:0 only). #-# If no path is provided, a default value will be calculated based on the operating environment. ! openoffice.profilePath=/home/OOo/.openoffice.org/3/ #-# [Since 1.8RC3] #-# Maximum number of simultaneous conversion tasks to be handled by a single openoffice process (serverType:0 only). -- Niels http://nielsmayer.com