RHQ 4.0 Installation problem

[geethanga]

Hi,

I have downloaded the RHQ 4.0 DP2 distribution and am eager to check it out.

But my problem is when i'm trying to access URL

http://localhost:7080

it gives the following error.

HTTP Status 404 - /installer/welcome.jsf

---

type Status report

message /installer/welcome.jsf

description The requested resource (/installer/welcome.jsf) is not  available.

---

JBossWeb/2.0.1.GA

can anybody please help to resolve this issue?

\Geethanga

[mahdi24rajabi]

As probably you know this error occure when such resource (welcome.jsf) doesn't exist in your context root, refer to %RHQ_SERVER_HOME%\jbossas\server\default\deploy\rhq-installer.war.rej  and check the mentioned resource. if that exist or not. if it does, go to log file of embbeded jboss of RHQ server and make sure that the /installer  context has been deployed  successfully.

the other probability is that your server zip file may be cropted during downloading.

[mazz]

Hmm... this is weird. Is this the very first time you ran the server? It should have come up in "installer" mode. What happens if you go to:

http://localhost:7080/coregui/CoreGUI.html#Dashboard

[pilhuhn]

Hey,

I've just tried it on OS X and it works.

So I suspect that either the downloaded archive is corrupt or that unpackaging mangled some paths.

If you are on windows, make sure that

- you use short path (like c:\rhq) to unzip into

- try winzip, as the built-in zip utility has been the cause for corruption for long file path in the past.

HTH

   Heiko

[geethanga]

Hey thanks for the replies,

@John : I tried what you said it's not working either.

As you guys think it may be because of a corrupted file. I will download it again and try.

[ips]

The following yellow note from the RHQ install guide (http://rhq-project.org/display/JOPR2/Running+The+Installer) provides a bit more detail on the path-too-long issue on Windows that Heiko alluded to:

For Windows users
Do not install the RHQ Server into a directory with a path longer than about 19 characters (e.g. use C:\jopr rather than C:\Documents and Settings\myusername). Excessively long pathnames may cause errors during execution of the server. It has also been seen that unzipping the distribution using 7-Zip may also help avoid the long-pathname problem.

[geethanga]

Finally i got it to work in my personal machine. I have two test machines but both have the above issue.

And now i have another problem. If need to use SQL server as the database which versions are currently supported?

I have SQL Server 2005 express edition already installed in my machine but i couldn't get connected.

Do i need special drivers?

Here is the connection string is used. "jdbc:jtds:sqlserver://localhost/sqlexpress:1433;databaseName=rhq"

But i get the following error

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Windows Internet Explorer

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java.sql.SQLException: Network error IOException: Connection refused: connect

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OK  

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Windows Internet Explorer

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java.sql.SQLException: Network error IOException: Connection refused: connect

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OK  

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Please note that i have created, a database named rhq and a user for the database rhqadmin and password is set as rhqadmin

[mazz]

Here's more docs that talks about that:

http://rhq-project.org/display/JOPR2/Microsoft+SQL+Server

http://rhq-project.org/display/JOPR2/FAQ#FAQ-IsXXXdatabasesupported%3F

I know Joseph M did alot of work on SQL Server, but IIRC the work wasn't fully tested/completed and it was many months ago. Perhaps Joe can chime in on SQL Server support in the developer builds.

[joe.marques]

A while back I added support for SQLServer 2005/2008.  The instructions for what you must modify on your instance are in the Bugzilla that tracked that work -- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=RHQ-2142

[heldwein]

Hi,

I had the same problem ("The requested resource (/installer/welcome.jsf) is not  available.") as you and solved it by upgrading from Java 5 to Java 6.