It turns out the issue is that I needed to set up a proxy via ANT_OPTS. This seems to work now, even though the last thing the ant job does is say the build failed, it does appear to set everything up and Cassandra runs up and I can connect to it via Cassandra-cli
Thanks, Raymond. From: Christopher Brind [mailto:christopher.br...@googlemail.com] Sent: Wednesday, 24 March 2010 10:26 p.m. To: user@cassandra.apache.org Subject: Re: Frustrations installing Cassandra on Windows I don't know if there's some difference between building on Mac and Windows, but I just tried building from the latest git repo and that was fine. I also downloaded and built the 0.6 src tar ball from apache-cassandra-0.6.0-beta3-src.tar.gz <http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi?path=/cassandra/0.6.0/apache-cassandra-0.6.0-beta3-src.tar.gz> and that was fine too. Now you know you have Java and Ant setup properly, try removing your .ivy2 folder ( C:\Users\rwilson\.ivy2 ) and just running ant (don't specify a target). The build script seems to do all the retrieve stuff, so you shouldn't need to do that manually. Cheers, Chris On 24 March 2010 02:49, Raymond Wilson <raymond.wil...@trimble.co.nz> wrote: Hi, I've been looking at using Cassandra as a distributed database for use in our server software, which runs on Windows. This afternoon I've been trying to get Cassandra installed and running. Actually installing Cassandra was pretty easy, at least in the steps of "Download it, setup CASSANDRA_HOME and fiddle with the storage configuration file", however getting it to run has not been so easy. Admittedly, this is my first ever attempt at installing and running this system, so I'm a sort of monkey tester here ;) Here's a brief run-down of the issues I ran into trying out Cassandra 6.0 Beta 3, after installing Java 6 u18 and Cassandra itself (following the instructions in http://www.mattvv.com/hosting-cassandra-on-windows/, which may be out of date) 1. On running Cassandra, I get messages about the system not being able to locate a path. Eventually figure out that JAVA_HOME needs to point to a location in the [Program files]\Java folder, rather that location itself (newbie error) 2. After configuring JAVA_HOME correctly, I get errors that the new logging jar can't be found. I realise I skipped the 'Ant ivy-retrieve' step in the instructions. So I download and install Ant, configure ANT_HOME and run it. 3. I then run Ant ivy-retrieve. Oops, Tools.jar is not present. After some Googling I determine that I need the JAVA JDK, rather than the JRE to run it. (If this is a BETA, why does it need the JDK, surely the JRE alone is sufficient?) I then download and install JDK 6v18 and update my JAVA_HOME path. 4. I then run Ant ivy-retrieve again. It starts running (great), then fails with a generic error trying to get the ivy-2.1.0.jar file. I copied the URL into Google which promptly downloaded it, so I'm not sure what's wrong there. I copied the ivy-2.1.0.jar file into the build folder and tried again 5. I then run Ant ivy-retrieve again, Success (sort of). The ant job complains it can't get the file, then notices it's there after all and proceeds to start building. That fails horribly with many error messages in the command window. 6. I ran it again and captured the output (attached to the email). This explains that lots of things couldn't be resolved. Does anyone have a step-by-step, soup to nuts, from ground zero, list of instructions to get Cassandra installed and running on a clean windows system? As a suggestion, is it worth considering producing Cassandra builds that contain all the peripheral bits and pieces it relies on (essentially running the 'ant ivy-retrieve' command and bundling up the results as a single download/install) so that clueless newbie users like me have a better chance getting this running? Thanks, Raymond.
