No capability (e.g. no option to create portal, manage users

[tulumvinh]

Problem: after login to JBoss portal (http://hostname:8080/portal) with user "admin", I am missing the following:

- There is no content in the "Home" tab.
- After clicking on the "admin" link in the upper right hand corner, I see "Home" and "Members" tabs. However, there is no content within these tabs. I was expecting a button to allow me to create a portal, pages within a portal, windows within a page, etc..
- The scenario applies to other tabs as well (i.e. I see the tab but no data).

Here is my setup:
- jboss-4.2.1.GA for my application server.
- Downloaded and built jboss-portal-2.6.2.GA-src from source for my JBoss portal.
- O/S: RedHat
- JDK: 1.5.0_13
- Database: Postgres version 8.2.

I do see more than 2 dozens jbp* tables within my Postgres database and the tables have data.

Any help would be appreciated.

[roth]

Hi

Might be a stupid question, but do you have the admin, management, identity and cms portals deployed? I.e. are there portal-admin.sar and the like in your JBoss deploy/ directory?

Cheers,
Tobias

[peterj]

I just now checked the results of a build on 2.6.2. I recall from 2.4.x that the build produced a functionally complete jboss-portal.sar file, suitable for deployment (all you had to add was the *-ds.xml file to configure the datasource). But in 2.6.2, the jboss-portal.sar is incomplete. While I can understand the rational behind this, it would be nice if the build constructed a functionally complete version of jboss-portal.sar, perhaps at build/output/jboss-portal.sar.

[prabhat.jha]

You could still get functionally complete jboss-portal.sar using ant -f distrib.xml -Dno-doc=true or ant -f distrib.xml package-normal

[peterj]

I guess I should have read the build script first...

[tulumvinh]

Thanks for everyone reply, it was very helpful. Just to summarize what the issue(s) were:

- Following the instructions from the JBoss Portal Reference guide and just doing a "build deploy" results in an incomplete jboss-portal.sar. Just as poster "roth" mentioned, I was missing key sar files (e.g. portal-admin.sar, portal-cms.sar, etc.).
- Just poster "prabhat" mentioned, the solution is to do a ant -f distrib.xml -Dno-doc=true package-normal.

*Note: I found a an error in the distrib.xml file which I will submit at a later time. The error is it was trying to copy portal-wsrp-exploded.sar which does not exist as part of the portal source downloaded. I changed the build file to copy portal-wsrp.sar instead.

Regards

[claprun]

Another option is to use the deploy-all target when you build Portal. Starting with 2.6, deploy only deploys the minimum that is required to run. If you just want to add the admin portlets, you can do:

cd build;./build.sh deploy;cd ../core-admin;./build.sh deploy

Note that this is all documented in section 2.3.5 of the reference guide: http://docs.jboss.com/jbportal/v2.6.2/referenceGuide/html/installation.html#d0e946

See also http://wiki.jboss.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=PortalModules.