Facing problem in getting the portal

[raj.shanmug]

Hi all,

In the event of installing the JBoss Application server and Portal. These are steps that i followed

1. I have downloded the Jboss 4.0.4 CR2 and Jboss Portal 2.4 ALPHA.

I have unzipped both the zip files and now i configured the portal-sqlserverds.xml file in the portal and copied both the configured xml and the

portal.sar file to the JBOSS_Home/default/deploy directory of the App Server.

2. Then i have copied the jdbc jar files to the default/lib directory.

3. Prior to this i have also set the environment variables to the path, classpath, JBOSS_HOME; JAVA_HOME.

4. I started the run.bat file in the jboss/bin.

5. The jboss server started, but i encountered the following error when i pointed the browser to the portal.


HTTP Status 500 -
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type Exception report

message

description The server encountered an internal error () that prevented it from fulfilling this request.

exception

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Cannot invoke with a null interceptor[]
org.jboss.portal.common.invocation.Invocation.invoke(Invocation.java:163)
org.jboss.portal.server.servlet.PortalServlet.doGet(PortalServlet.java:231)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:697)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:810)
org.jboss.web.tomcat.filters.ReplyHeaderFilter.doFilter(ReplyHeaderFilter.java:96)
note The full stack trace of the root cause is available in the Apache Tomcat/5.5.16 logs.



---Raj


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Apache Tomcat/5.5.16

[peterj]

The command window should have a complete stack trace, please post it. Or, look near the end of the stack trace, you should see one or more entries labelled "Caused by ...", those are the root causes for the problem and might lead you to a solution.

By the way, it would appear that you are setting up a new portal. Was there a reason that you picked pre-release software for both JBoss AS and the Portal? In other words, why not 4.0.4GA and 2.4.0GA?

[raj.shanmug]

There is no prerequiste as such. The basic thing i need to install the JBoss As and Portal from Binary and i need to develop a portlet and using JSR 168 i need to interface the same with an external system. In 4.04 GA there is run.bat file in the root/bin. Since am using a Windows xp OS i tried using the 4.0.4 CR2 and 2.4 ALpha versions. Could you kindly guide me installing the best AS and portal.

[theute]

4.0.4.GA is out, please use this one instead of the candidate for release.

2.4.GA is out as well, don't use the alpha version.

If you don't understand release names, please refer to: http://wiki.jboss.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=JBossProductVersioning

[raj.shanmug]

If i got to go for a bundled download of jboss 2.4 + AS, is it possible for me to configure the data base to my sql server 2000 db, if so could you let me know the steps.

---Raj

[peterj]

The short answer is yes. The long answer is the Reference Guide contains steps on installing the Portal with a database. I don't know if the bundle contains all the files, though. If it doesn't you will want to also download the binary, read the Reference Guide, and use the database-related files (there is one for SQL Server) provided by the binary.

[raj.shanmug]

I checked whether the external db port is listening and that it works fine. Then i have one major doubt. They have given the Instance name as MSSQLSERVER. So do i need to change my ds name in the portal-mssql-ds.xml from PortalDS to MSSQLSERVER.

Then i have configured the standardjaws.xml login-config.xml and also the standardjbosscmp-jdbc.xml also accordingly to suit this. But still i am getting the problem 401 and 500.

Please help me in this.

---Raj

[peterj]

Raj, please do not post the same problem in multiple places. This is the third location that I have noticed where you have posted the same issue.