Re: [xwiki-users] Need help configuring xwiki for sql server; possible documentation error

2016-12-31 Thread Vincent Massol
> On 31 Dec 2016, at 16:16, novnovice wrote: > > Oh - my mistake. First, I didn't respond to what you had asked before, and > the answer is that yes the change you have made to the tomcat page would > have helped an uninformed experimenter like myself; ie a person with only > peripheral exposure

Re: [xwiki-users] Need help configuring xwiki for sql server; possible documentation error

2016-12-31 Thread novnovice
Oh - my mistake. First, I didn't respond to what you had asked before, and the answer is that yes the change you have made to the tomcat page would have helped an uninformed experimenter like myself; ie a person with only peripheral exposure to java/tomcat configuration. Second, for some reason I d

Re: [xwiki-users] Need help configuring xwiki for sql server; possible documentation error

2016-12-31 Thread Vincent Massol
> On 31 Dec 2016, at 00:10, novnovice wrote: > > Hi and thanks for the reply. > > For someone like myself who is very inexperienced with configuring java and > tomcat, it'd have been useful if there was a statement on the tomcat setup > page here something like this: > > "Make sure you give en

Re: [xwiki-users] Need help configuring xwiki for sql server; possible documentation error

2016-12-30 Thread novnovice
Hi and thanks for the reply. For someone like myself who is very inexperienced with configuring java and tomcat, it'd have been useful if there was a statement on the tomcat setup page here something like this: "Make sure you give enough memory to Java. The default memory settings for tomcat are

Re: [xwiki-users] Need help configuring xwiki for sql server; possible documentation error

2016-12-30 Thread Vincent Massol
> On 30 Dec 2016, at 20:31, Vincent Massol wrote: > >> >> On 30 Dec 2016, at 20:29, Vincent Massol wrote: >> >> Hi there, >> >> I’m glad you found your problem. >> >>> On 30 Dec 2016, at 20:01, novnovice wrote: >>> >>> And a recommendation - make the 'provide enough memory for tomcat' sta

Re: [xwiki-users] Need help configuring xwiki for sql server; possible documentation error

2016-12-30 Thread Vincent Massol
> On 30 Dec 2016, at 20:29, Vincent Massol wrote: > > Hi there, > > I’m glad you found your problem. > >> On 30 Dec 2016, at 20:01, novnovice wrote: >> >> And a recommendation - make the 'provide enough memory for tomcat' statement >> in the instructions a bit more explicit; possibly advise

Re: [xwiki-users] Need help configuring xwiki for sql server; possible documentation error

2016-12-30 Thread Vincent Massol
Hi there, I’m glad you found your problem. > On 30 Dec 2016, at 20:01, novnovice wrote: > > And a recommendation - make the 'provide enough memory for tomcat' statement > in the instructions a bit more explicit; possibly advise what I used, > 512-1024. The out of the box tomcat memory settings

Re: [xwiki-users] Need help configuring xwiki for sql server; possible documentation error

2016-12-30 Thread novnovice
And a recommendation - make the 'provide enough memory for tomcat' statement in the instructions a bit more explicit; possibly advise what I used, 512-1024. The out of the box tomcat memory settings are very low. Generally the xwiki setup instructions are very good. Thank you. -- View this mes

Re: [xwiki-users] Need help configuring xwiki for sql server; possible documentation error

2016-12-30 Thread novnovice
Finally, success. Almost for certain the issue was lack of memory for tomcat. With min 512 and max 1024 xwiki is running normally. The part of this long thread that is not about tomcat memory, I'd guess, is the fact that the hibernate instructions for mssql may be incomplete, and that I couldn't

Re: [xwiki-users] Need help configuring xwiki for sql server; possible documentation error

2016-12-29 Thread novnovice
Oh well...exciting installation process. After completing the UI installation step,it was moving on to whatever is next, and after about 30 minutes of spinning I get a major error page: Step 5 - Report Failed to execute the [velocity] macro. Cause: [Java heap space]. Click on this message for det

Re: [xwiki-users] Need help configuring xwiki for sql server; possible documentation error

2016-12-29 Thread novnovice
It had the black screen for 8 hours or so. I tried to nav to xwiki after a few hours but nothing changed. I restarted the server in the evening and after going to xwiki it started the intialization process again and completed. Now it's going through the UI setup process. Why did it 'black out'?

Re: [xwiki-users] Need help configuring xwiki for sql server; possible documentation error

2016-12-29 Thread novnovice
I decided to try the Microsoft JDBC driver and had more success with that. Still curious about the issues I mentioned in the original post and about why the jtds config failed. After browsing to the xwiki page, it went to 100% progress, then down to 95% for a long time. It has added many tables to

Re: [xwiki-users] Need help configuring xwiki for sql server; possible documentation error

2016-12-28 Thread novnovice
I also tried a step back, using the driver style in the sqlserver config page jdbc:jtds:sqlserver://localhost:1433/XWiki;tds=8.0;lastupdatecount=true Now the error is HTTP Status 500 - org.xwiki.velocity.XWikiVelocityException: Failed to evaluate content with id [init.vm] type Exception

[xwiki-users] Need help configuring xwiki for sql server; possible documentation error

2016-12-28 Thread novnovice
I am configuring xwiki to run with sql server. The xwiki database is created, and the xwiki user is the owner of the db. I can enter records in a table I made in that db as the xwiki user. I am using the jtds driver. Here is the jtds section on the sql server config page: jdbc:jtds:sqlserver://:1