I am attempting to setup OFBiz for my business. I am a Linux developer of many years experience.
I wanted a secure (SSL) setup, and I thought I would use Mariadb as I already use that for other software, and I would avoid duplication with another database. I stretched this further by wanting to have no demo data. I found it very difficult to accomplish all this. Much more difficult than I might have expected for a major apache project. However, I persevered, and after a whole weekend of work, I got it working to a first order. I have documented each step I took. HOWEVER: I CANNOT ADD A PARTY MAILING ADDRESS. There are no provinces listed for Canada. There are no states listed for the USA. I don't know other countries intimately, so I can't speak for them. As a result of being incomplete, I cannot add addresses at all. I initially thought this must be because I did not use the demo data. So, I repeated my work, but left the demo data in place. SAME PROBLEM. Then I thought that perhaps I should do the migration (to Mysql) AFTER setting up the initial data. That was BROKEN and wouldn't complete on import, and the resulting website wouldn't display properly. Then I thought it might be the database - perhaps it doesn't work with mysql. I would just do the straightforward install, and work with that. SAME PROBLEM. So here we are: 3 full days and I can't enter my first employee, even with the simplest install with default settings. Of course there is one fundamental lesson here: never just believe that something works just because it is from a reputable project that has been out there for years. I should have known better. -- Dominic Amann M 416-270-4587
