Changeset 10135 for trunk/gsdl3/README.txt

Timestamp:

2005-06-16T17:39:39+12:00 (19 years ago)

Author:

kjdon

Message:

a few comments about SOAP and external tomccat

File:

• trunk/gsdl3/README.txt (modified) (2 diffs)

trunk/gsdl3/README.txt

@@ -36 +36 @@
 
 The file build.properties contains various parameters that can be set by the user. Please check these settings before running the install.
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+Greenstone uses the Tomcat servlet container. If you already have Tomcat running, you can set the tomcat.installed.path property to the base directory of your Tomcat installation, and Greenstone will not download its own Tomcat.
+It is intended that the same thing will be available for mysql, but this has not been implemented yet.
 
 Greenstone 3 uses some parts of Greenstone 2 for collection building using the Librarian Interface. It downloads the relevant parts during install. If you have Greenstone 2 already installed, please set the gsdl2.installed.path property to be the root of your Greenstone 2 installation. Greenstone 3 will then use this installation rather than downloading the extra Greenstone 2 bits. If you do not want to use Greenstone 2 style collection building at all, set the gsdl2.installed.path to any non-empty string.
@@ -76 +79 @@
 Any sub targets can be run by themselves. Run 'ant -projecthelp' for a list of public targets, otherwise you can look at the build.xml file to see which targets depend on other ones.
 
+If you run your install using an external Tomcat, the SOAP web service for localsite (used by the gateway servlet) will not be loaded. You need to start up Tomcat, then run 'ant soap-deploy-site' and accept the defaults for sitename and siteuri (both localsite).
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 Running Greenstone:
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