Hi, I managed installing the empty XWiki. When loading the initial XWiki Enterprise UI the screen & the appserver lock up. In the logs I see the following, see below. Clue: multiple errors like ERROR o.x.v.i.DefaultVelocityEngine - Exception in macro #wikiHomePageLink called at /templates/distribution.vm Any help very much appreciated! Rob. ==================================================== 2013-11-19 11:24:11,125 [localhost-startStop-1] WARN o.x.e.i.ServletEnvironment - No permanent directory configured. Using temporary directory [D:\SERVERS\tomcat7\work\Catalina\localhost\xwiki]. 2013-11-19 11:24:13,375 [localhost-startStop-1] INFO o.x.s.s.i.EmbeddedSolrInstance - Starting embedded Solr server... 2013-11-19 11:24:13,375 [localhost-startStop-1] INFO o.x.s.s.i.EmbeddedSolrInstance - Using Solr home directory: D:\SERVERS\tomcat7\work\Catalina\localhost\xwiki\solr 2013-11-19 11:24:16,078 [localhost-startStop-1] WARN o.a.s.c.SolrCore - New index directory detected: old=null new=D:\SERVERS\tomcat7\work\Catalina\localhost\xwiki\solr\.\data\index/ 2013-11-19 11:24:16,078 [localhost-startStop-1] WARN o.a.s.c.SolrCore - [xwiki] Solr index directory 'D:\SERVERS\tomcat7\work\Catalina\localhost\xwiki\solr\.\data\index' doesn't exist. Creating new index... 2013-11-19 11:24:18,265 [localhost-startStop-1] INFO o.x.s.s.i.EmbeddedSolrInstance - Started embedded Solr server. 2013-11-19 11:24:35,765 [http://localhost:8080/xwiki/bin/view/Main/] INFO .HibernateDataMigrationManager - Checking Hibernate mapping and updating schema if needed for wiki [xwiki] 2013-11-19 11:24:38,187 [http://localhost:8080/xwiki/bin/view/Main/] INFO .HibernateDataMigrationManager - Storage schema updates and data migrations are enabled 2013-11-19 11:24:38,218 [http://localhost:8080/xwiki/bin/view/Main/] INFO .HibernateDataMigrationManager - No data migration to apply for database [xwiki] currently in version [43000] 2013-11-19 11:24:38,218 [http://localhost:8080/xwiki/bin/view/Main/] INFO .HibernateDataMigrationManager - Checking Hibernate mapping and updating schema if needed for wiki [xwiki] 2013-11-19 11:27:34,078 [ http://localhost:8080/xwiki/bin/distribution/XWiki/Distribution?xredirect=%…] WARN o.x.v.i.DefaultVelocityEngine - Deprecated usage of method [com.xpn.xwiki.api.XWiki.countDocuments] in xwiki:XWiki.Distribution@132,31 2013-11-19 11:27:51,453 [ http://localhost:8080/xwiki/bin/distribution/XWiki/Distribution?extensionSe…] ERROR o.x.v.i.DefaultVelocityEngine - Exception in macro #wikiHomePageLink called at /templates/distribution.vm[line 608, column 33] 2013-11-19 11:27:51,453 [ http://localhost:8080/xwiki/bin/distribution/XWiki/Distribution?extensionSe…] ERROR o.x.v.i.DefaultVelocityEngine - Exception in macro #printLogMessage called at /templates/distribution.vm[line 203, column 9] 2013-11-19 11:27:51,453 [ http://localhost:8080/xwiki/bin/distribution/XWiki/Distribution?extensionSe…] ERROR o.x.v.i.DefaultVelocityEngine - Exception in macro #displayJobProgressBar called at /templates/distribution.vm[line 183, column 5] 2013-11-19 11:27:51,453 [ http://localhost:8080/xwiki/bin/distribution/XWiki/Distribution?extensionSe…] ERROR o.x.v.i.DefaultVelocityEngine - Exception in macro #displayProgressBar called at /templates/distribution.vm[line 746, column 7] 2013-11-19 11:27:51,453 [ http://localhost:8080/xwiki/bin/distribution/XWiki/Distribution?extensionSe…] ERROR o.x.v.i.DefaultVelocityEngine - Exception in macro #displayExtension called at /templates/distribution.vm[line 795, column 7] 2013-11-19 11:27:51,453 [ http://localhost:8080/xwiki/bin/distribution/XWiki/Distribution?extensionSe…] ERROR o.x.v.i.DefaultVelocityEngine - Exception in macro #handleExtensionAction called at /templates/distribution.vm[line 766, column 5] 2013-11-19 11:27:51,453 [ http://localhost:8080/xwiki/bin/distribution/XWiki/Distribution?extensionSe…] ERROR o.x.v.i.DefaultVelocityEngine - Exception in macro #handleExtensionRequest called at /templates/distribution.vm[line 157, column 7]