[xwiki-users] xwiki mysql user password complexity

2017-01-06 Thread Douglas Landau
Greetings, I am trying to install XWiki 8.4.3 in Tomcat 9.0.0.M15. The instructions at http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/AdminGuide/InstallationMySQL say : mysql -u root -e "grant all privileges on *.* to xwiki@localhost identified by 'xwiki'" This was failing for me with a message about

[xwiki-users] Another Error number 11007 in 0: Failed to extract Entity blah blah from [http://localhost:8080/xwiki/bin/view/Main]

2017-01-06 Thread Douglas Landau
Greetings, Another one of these. A Java stacktrace looking very very much like the one reported Aug 10 2016 by Tom Neumann on the Forum, http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/Forum However, his error was at line 233 of hibernate.cfg.xml, whereas mine is at line 244: Caused by: org.xm

Re: [xwiki-users] Another Error number 11007 in 0: Failed to extract Entity blah blah from [http://localhost:8080/xwiki/bin/view/Main]

2017-01-06 Thread Douglas Landau
>This means that you’ve modified hibernate.cfg.xml but you’re added elements at >the wrong place in the XML, not following the DTD at >http://www.hibernate.org/dtd/hibernate-configuration-3.0.dtd. ... >I think that'd the error is here and those mappings need to be commented out >too since they’r

Re: [xwiki-users] Another Error number 11007 in 0: Failed to extract Entity blah blah from [http://localhost:8080/xwiki/bin/view/Main]

2017-01-06 Thread Douglas Landau
Ha-HA :-) Thank you again sir! I am past the errors and on to the Distribution Wizard. Fantastic. > It looks like I did copy the MySQL-connector jar to > tomcat/webapps/xwiki/WEB_INF. It’s WEB-INF/lib. Could you check that? The information contained in this transmission may contain West M

[xwiki-users] Stopping Xwiki-8.4.3/Tomcat-9.0 and integrating with systemctl

2017-03-01 Thread Douglas Landau
Hi All, Sorry for the dumb question. I've installed CentOS-7.2, Java-1.8, MySQL 5.7, Tomcat 9.0.0, XWiki 8.4.3. I've built jsvc and have created a startup script, catalina_start. But now I want a stop script, and to integrate with systemctl/systemd on CentOS-7. I see the page at https://w

Re: [xwiki-users] Stopping Xwiki-8.4.3/Tomcat-9.0 and integrating with systemctl

2017-03-01 Thread Douglas Landau
-Original Message- From: users [mailto:users-boun...@xwiki.org] On Behalf Of Douglas Landau Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2017 5:14 PM To: XWiki Users Subject: [xwiki-users] Stopping Xwiki-8.4.3/Tomcat-9.0 and integrating with systemctl Hi All, Sorry for the dumb question. I

Re: [xwiki-users] Stopping Xwiki-8.4.3/Tomcat-9.0 and integrating with systemctl

2017-03-06 Thread Douglas Landau
>Port in property is a Tomcat system port used for shutdown, it should >not be confused with a port Tomcat service connector listens on (client >connection port like 80, 8080, 443 etc). So changing it to 8080 is not what >you should've done, I think. Thanks. I changed it back to 8005. But w

[xwiki-users] LDAP Authentication extension config

2017-03-06 Thread Douglas Landau
he user name, {1} with the password xwiki.authentication.ldap.bind_DN=cn={0},department=USER,department=INFORMATIK,department=1230,o=MP xwiki.authentication.ldap.bind_pass={1} -Original Message- From: users [mailto:users-boun...@xwiki.org] On Behalf Of Douglas Landau Sent: Monday, March 06, 2

Re: [xwiki-users] Stopping Xwiki-8.4.3/Tomcat-9.0 and integrating with systemctl

2017-03-08 Thread Douglas Landau
>One more tip: you actually shouldn't run Tomcat as root, this could get messy >pretty fast. Thanks! - In fact I installed Tomcat and xwiki as root. I guess someone else should own the files? - I would like to run tomcat/xwiki on port 80. Do I need to run as root to do that? Do I need to se

Re: [xwiki-users] Stopping Xwiki-8.4.3/Tomcat-9.0 and integrating with systemctl

2017-03-09 Thread Douglas Landau
Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2017 11:47 PM To: XWiki Users Subject: Re: [xwiki-users] Stopping Xwiki-8.4.3/Tomcat-9.0 and integrating with systemctl On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 12:11 AM, Douglas Landau wrote: > >>One more tip: you actually shouldn't run Tomcat as root, this could get messy &

[xwiki-users] Redeploy the XWiki webapp ?

2017-03-14 Thread Douglas Landau
Greets, The LDAP Authenticator extension webpage says "Unlike editing xwiki.cfg, which requires you to redeploy the XWiki webapp, ..." How does one redeploy the app? Thanks Doug -Original Message- From: users [mailto:users-boun...@xwiki.org] On Behalf Of Marius Dumitru Florea Sent: Tu

[xwiki-users] Starting and stopping again

2017-03-14 Thread Douglas Landau
thing in the output that explains the failure to exit. Thanks -Original Message- From: users [mailto:users-boun...@xwiki.org] On Behalf Of Douglas Landau Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2017 4:04 PM To: XWiki Users Subject: [xwiki-users] Redeploy the XWiki webapp ? Greets, The LDAP Authenticato

Re: [xwiki-users] Redeploy the XWiki webapp ?

2017-03-14 Thread Douglas Landau
Sometimes - maybe every time, not sure - that I start xwiki, I get "XWiki initializing (12%)" Is that re-deploying? Thanks -Original Message- From: users [mailto:users-boun...@xwiki.org] On Behalf Of Douglas Landau Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2017 4:04 PM To: XWiki Users Subje

[xwiki-users] LDAP Auth again

2017-03-14 Thread Douglas Landau
OK, now I'm -totally- confused. :-) I am looking for the LDAP Application form. I started over with the standalone installer. I installed the LDAP Authenticator using the built-in (pre-installed?) admin application I tried adding the LDAP settings found here to xwiki.cfg: http://extensions

[xwiki-users] XWiki 9 Java errors

2017-03-14 Thread Douglas Landau
Greets, I've installed xwiki 9.1.2 in a new VM. I am using Java 1.8.0_25. I ran the standalone installer and said start_xwiki.sh and it started, and I got the java stacktraces below. I have not modified xwiki.cfg or anything else. Can anyone shed some light on these errors? Thanks! Doug [

[xwiki-users] XWiki 9 admin account

2017-03-14 Thread Douglas Landau
Greets, I've installed Xwiki 9.1.2, but can't log in as Admin/admin. Did it change, or do I have capslock on? Thanks Doug -Original Message- From: users [mailto:users-boun...@xwiki.org] On Behalf Of Douglas Landau Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2017 8:48 PM To: XWiki Users Subje

Re: [xwiki-users] LDAP Auth again

2017-03-15 Thread Douglas Landau
That's it, the LDAP authenticator is used as authenticator and you have what is described on http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/LDAP/Application/ when you do to the administration -> LDAP. >If you think you configured LDAP authenticator with the right values and login >still f

Re: [xwiki-users] LDAP Auth again

2017-03-15 Thread Douglas Landau
Greets, I am getting the same results no matter what I set as the value for: xwiki.authentication.ldap.bind_DN=cn=sa-douglasl I see it says that LDAP auth failed for douglasl, which I don’t understand yet, but whu then is the XWikiUser null? Thanks 2017-03-15 13:13:03,767 [http://dwswiki9.we

Re: [xwiki-users] LDAP Auth again

2017-03-15 Thread Douglas Landau
Hmm. I've set these two lines to: xwiki.authentication.ldap.bind_DN=cn={0},dc=westmarine,dc=net xwiki.authentication.ldap.bind_pass={1} ... and still get a Java stacktrace surrounded by these: 2017-03-15 13:39:12,357 [http://dwswiki9.westmarine.net:8080/xwiki/bin/get/TourCode/TourJson?xpage=pl

[xwiki-users] LDAP server == localhost ?

2017-03-15 Thread Douglas Landau
Greets, Looking at this: #-# LDAP Server (Active Directory, eDirectory, OpenLDAP, etc.) #-# The default host is localhost xwiki.authentication.ldap.server=pwsdc03.westmarine.net Why is the default localhost? Would it not be quite rare that the AD server is also running the XWiki? Is it not mo

Re: [xwiki-users] LDAP Auth again

2017-03-15 Thread Douglas Landau
} Does this mean that {0} is going to be replaced at runtime, or that I should replace it? Thanks -Original Message- From: users [mailto:users-boun...@xwiki.org] On Behalf Of Douglas Landau Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2017 1:44 PM To: XWiki Users Subject: Re: [xwiki-users] LDAP Auth again

[xwiki-users] LDAP port: 389 vs 3389

2017-03-15 Thread Douglas Landau
In my xwiki.cfg I have: xwiki.authentication.ldap.port=389 So why do I see this in the console output? 2017-03-15 17:10:00,209 [http://dwswiki9.westmarine.net:8080/xwiki/bin/loginsubmit/XWiki/XWikiLogin] DEBUG o.x.c.l.XWikiLDAPConnection- Connection to LDAP server [pwsdc03.westmarine.net:33

[xwiki-users] Success with Xwiki 9. 8.4.4 broken.

2017-03-15 Thread Douglas Landau
I finally had success. How? I stopped trying with 8.4.4. I replicated the config that I've been tearing my hair out over, on XWiki 9.1.2, and boom. The information contained in this transmission may contain West Marine proprietary, confidential and/or privileged information. It is inten

Re: [xwiki-users] LDAP port: 389 vs 3389

2017-03-16 Thread Douglas Landau
application has priority over xwiki.cfg so make sure you did not put 3389 on wiki side. On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 1:23 AM, Douglas Landau wrote: > In my xwiki.cfg I have: > xwiki.authentication.ldap.port=389 > > So why do I see this in the console output? > 2017-03-15 17:10:00,209 >

[xwiki-users] XWiki + HTTPS : are there current instructions available?

2017-03-17 Thread Douglas Landau
Greets, I want to enable https on my new xwiki installation. I see this in the administrators guide: Security configuration See the Security Guide. If the users will be accessing XWiki using SSL (https) then you will have to change the way links are created so that

[xwiki-users] What version of Jetty am I running?

2017-03-17 Thread Douglas Landau
Greets, This page warns about Jetty 7 and 8: https://wiki.eclipse.org/Jetty/Howto/Configure_SSL I googled how to determine, and found the answer: java -jar start.jar --version However, on my installation, that fails, saying: Jetty Server Classpath: --- No classpath entries

Re: [xwiki-users] What version of Jetty am I running?

2017-03-17 Thread Douglas Landau
Okay, I see that this is the response on xwiki-9.1.2/standalone.On xwiki-8.4.4/standalone it says: [root@dwswiki9 jetty]# java -jar start.jar --version Jetty Server Classpath: --- Version Information on 6 entries in the classpath. Note: order presented here is how they w

[xwiki-users] HTTPS: No ciphers offerred?

2017-03-20 Thread Douglas Landau
Greets, I've enabled HTTPS on my XWiki. But when I surf there, I get a failure with no explanation from Chrome, and this from IE: -- Turn on TLS 1.0, TLS 1.1, and TLS 1.2 in Advanced settings and try connecting to https://pwswiki10.westmarine.net again. If t

[xwiki-users] Install XWiki as whom?

2017-03-21 Thread Douglas Landau
Thanks! I installed it (the standalone version) as root and ran it briefly a few times as root. Now when I try to run it as myself it fails because I can't overwrite logs that have already been started. Should start over and reinstall as myself? Or rather, as the user as whom I wish to ru

[xwiki-users] A question regarding attachment storage and environment.permanentDirectory

2017-03-21 Thread Douglas Landau
Greets, I have a request for my new xwiki: please store attachments as files rather than in the DB. OK, I found the instructions at: http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/AdminGuide/Attachments I set these: xwiki.store.attachment.hint = file xwiki.store.attachment.versioning.hint = file xwiki

[xwiki-users] environment.permanentDirectory default value: data/ or /var/local/xwiki ?

2017-03-21 Thread Douglas Landau
data, and do have a /data/xwiki/data/ with the expected contents. Doug -Original Message- From: users [mailto:users-boun...@xwiki.org] On Behalf Of Douglas Landau Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2017 6:13 PM To: XWiki Users Subject: [xwiki-users] A question regarding at

[xwiki-users] How do I run the attachment porter?

2017-03-21 Thread Douglas Landau
Greets, I modified xwiki.properties and set: xwiki.store.attachment.hint = file xwiki.store.attachment.versioning.hint = file xwiki.store.attachment.recyclebin.hint = file ... and when I started XWiki I got the Java stacktrace below. I don't see anything obvious in them that would explain, but

[xwiki-users] Standalone vs. production installs?

2017-03-22 Thread Douglas Landau
Greets, This page : https://network.xwiki.com/xwiki/bin/view/DocXE51En/XWikiEnterpriseInstallation distinguishes between quick installs and production installs. It lists the standalone in the former. Is there anything unsuitable about the standalone install being used for production purpos

[xwiki-users] Help Request! Running the Attachment Porter

2017-03-22 Thread Douglas Landau
Folks, I found the attachment porter but don’t know how to invoke it. I am reading and re-reading the page about it, the page that has the download button. But nowhere does it say how to use it. Now, I apologize sincerely for the dumb question. But I am getting an error for every one of

Re: [xwiki-users] Help Request! Running the Attachment Porter

2017-03-30 Thread Douglas Landau
>I’ve never used this code but shouldn’t it execute in a wiki page? Thanks Vincent. I finally figured out from Craig Wright's comment ("FOR THOSE NEW TO XWIKI") that a)there is such a thing [as a code snippet that runs in a page] and that this is one of them. Being completely unaware of the e

[xwiki-users] Distribution wizard loop

2017-04-05 Thread Douglas Landau
Greets, I'm getting a loop in the distribution wizard. Can't get past step 1. (Admin user). It is not password length. But it is not telling me why. I tried dropping the xwiki database and re-initializing. But I fall into this loop again. Does anybody know/remember why this happens? Than

[xwiki-users] New installation: The requested page could not be found.

2017-04-05 Thread Douglas Landau
n. What am overlooking? Thanks -Original Message- From: users [mailto:users-boun...@xwiki.org] On Behalf Of Douglas Landau Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2017 2:27 PM To: XWiki Users Subject: [xwiki-users] Distribution wizard loop Greets, I'm getting a loop in the distribution wiza

[xwiki-users] LDAP Authenticator working but "You are not allowed to view this page or perform this action."

2017-04-26 Thread Douglas Landau
Greets, I don’t get it. I moved my environment.permanentDirectory and got into a messed up state. I started over: I shut down tomcat I said "mysql drop database xwiki" and recreated it and re-granted app privs on xwiki.* I copy-n-pasted the LDAP settings from my previous installation, where LDA

Re: [xwiki-users] LDAP Authenticator working but "You are not allowed to view this page or perform this action."

2017-04-27 Thread Douglas Landau
>> ERROR You are not allowed to view >> this page or perform this action. >The error has nothing to do with the permanent directory. It's telling you >that the current user is not allowed to view the page >you are asking for. >Maybe you just stayed in admin ?

Re: [xwiki-users] Detailed XWiki Install Info For RPM-Based Systems

2017-04-28 Thread Douglas Landau
John, As far as I know it might be my own instructions. :-) They will get you a successful install/running MySQL+XWiki-8.4.4(WAR)+Tomcat+NGINX on CentOS-7. But my own XWiki is still under construction and there are at least a few loose ends left to be addressed before I can announce it. F

[xwiki-users] NGINX behavior changes, stops redirecting

2017-05-08 Thread Douglas Landau
Greets, For some reason NGINX sometimes stops serving my tomcat pages and starts wanting to serve pages from .../nginx/html/. I don't get it. On Friday, at 13:39, I was happily browsing my XWiki site, as you can see from the NGINX access_log. Then from that log you see no activity until 10:3

[xwiki-users] Can't remove groups

2017-05-15 Thread Douglas Landau
Greets, Seems like I am no longer able to remove groups in one of my xwiki installations. I am still able to in another. As seen in the excerpts below from catalina.out, one such group in SplunkAdmins. This group appears in xwiki.cfg where it is mapped to an AD group and had been populated w

Re: [xwiki-users] Can't remove groups

2017-05-16 Thread Douglas Landau
groups You can remove the group but if you don't remove it from the LDAP mapping it will be automatically created each time a user authenticate. On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 3:51 AM, Douglas Landau wrote: > Greets, > > Seems like I am no longer able to remove groups in one of my xwiki >

Re: [xwiki-users] Can't remove groups

2017-05-18 Thread Douglas Landau
[[Note: The XWiki project is switching away from this mailing list and moving to a forum: https://discourse.xwiki.org. This list will be made readonly in a few days. Please post on the forum from now on. Thanks.]] - >Creating a JIRA issue without more detail won't help since deleting groups

[xwiki-users] Initial permissions for users - new users can't see anything

2017-06-01 Thread Douglas Landau
[[Note: The XWiki project is switching away from this mailing list and moving to a forum: https://discourse.xwiki.org. This list will be made readonly in a few days. Please post on the forum from now on. Thanks.]] - Greets, In my XWiki installation, when regular users log in for the 1st tim