Basic Installation

Sorry for starting multiple threads, but I still struggle with the Basic installation. I'm trying to install Orbeon CE on tomcat7 with all the defaults, including the built-in eXist database.

1. I've copied the contents of orbeon.war into /var/lib/tomcat7/webapps/orbeon
2. Copied properties-local.xml.template to properties-local.xml and added
<property as="xs:anyURI" name="oxf.url-rewriting.service.base-uri" value="http://localhost:8080/orbeon"/>
3. Restarted tomcat

I can navigate to http://localhost:8080/orbeon and see the homepage. However, clicking on Form Runner Home, or trying to open any of the sample forms lead to errors.

What installation step(s) am I missing?

Hi Daniel,

If you're just accessing Orbeon Forms on your local machine, you don't need to set that oxf.url-rewriting.service.base-uri property. Could you look for the orbeon.log, and see if you can find any telling idea in there? If not, could you stop Tomcat, remove the orbeon.log, restart Tomcat, access the page that gives you that error, and attach the orbeon.log to your response?

Alex

Alex,

As you explained on the other thread, the solution was to make WEB-INF/exist-data writeable.

Thank you,
Daniel

Daniel, excellent!

Alex