New subject: [xwiki-users] Installing and running XWiki on Windows Vista

25 Sep 2008

Guillaume,

Well just for convienence so if you have to reboot the Windows server then
XWiki would come up as a Windows service without admins having to remember
to restart XWiki. Having XWiki run as a Windows service seems the more
practical option in this case.

Regards,

Richard

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From: users-bounces(a)xwiki.org [mailto:users-bounces@xwiki.org]On Behalf
Of Guillaume Lerouge
Sent: 25 September 2008 10:04
To: XWiki Users
Subject: Re: [xwiki-users] Installing and running XWiki on Windows Vista

Hi Richard,
I've got a quick question : since XWiki Enterprise uses a client - server
architecture and is meant to be installed on the server and accessed through
a browser over the network, why would you need to have XWiki Enteprise start
each time windows start ?

Why don't you simply keep your windows server up all the time, with XWiki
Enterprise running on top of it all the time ?

Guillaume

On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 9:43 AM, goldring, richard <
richard.goldring(a)uk.thalesgroup.com&gt; wrote:

...
  Hi,

 Some user observations on installing and running XWiki on Windows Vista:

 I tried installing (as administrator) the latest version of XWiki (using
 the
 slick looking Windows installer) on Windows Vista and it seemed to install
 ok, but when I tried running it up using the XWiki starup shortcut on the
 desktop it couldn't find the start_xwiki.bat in the XWiki directory. I
 looked and found it under the jetty directory, so moved them to the XWiki
 directory and tried again, but got access denied errors and can't write to
 the log file errors in the startup window. When I ran the the
 start_xwiki.bat directly from a command window it started up correctly and
 worked fine. So it looks like some configuration, permissions issues need
 addressing in the next release of XWiki.

 To simply things is it possible to install XWiki directly as a Windows
 service so it always comes up when Windows starts? Does anyone know how to
 do this? Maybe this could be done for the next release of XWiki? The easier
...
  and quicker XWiki can be installed and run up then
more likely it is to be
 used by more users.

 New WYSIWYG editor
 Like the new editor ... but it's still got a long way to go ... I'd like
to
...
  see some easy WYSIWYG way of laying out tables,
columns, rows, frames by
 being able to drag them to the desired positions and sizes.

 Document storage in XWiki
 Like to have the option to store attached documents external to any XWiki
 database in some sort of directory structure, for ease of backup and to
 ease
 performance issues when the database gets stuffed with huge documents.

 Hope these observations help.

 Regards,

 Richard

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