Comments on: OSCAR Install Guide

By: RKH

RKH — Wed, 26 May 2010 13:17:08 +0000

Hi – Does anyone know how to set up the Lab environment on OSCAR? Thanks!

By: Roy

Roy — Mon, 24 May 2010 17:08:50 +0000

Finally I was able to make the https connection work, by creating a certificate at /etc/tomcat5.5/.keystore instead of /root/.keystore. So changing the location of the keystore made it work, surprisingly…

By: Roy

Roy — Sat, 22 May 2010 22:07:29 +0000

Thank you! Oscar works fine with localhost or IP addresses on my small network, with port 8180 (which is unsecured even if redirected toward 8443 right?). The problem is that I can’t have secure connection, even after following the instructions exactly and verifying many times to make sure there is no mistakes.

I have installed Oscar on Ubuntu 9.10 Desktop, so maybe Tomcat5.5 is conflicting with something else?
Also, When I run a port scan (from Network Tools), I find ports 22, 8180 and a few other, but no 443 nor 8443. The firewall, ufw, is not blocking port 8443. I do not know where to look anymore to make this work. If you have any hints, please let me know!

By: David Daley

David Daley — Sat, 22 May 2010 17:30:24 +0000

if you are using “localhost”, this would assume that you are running firefox on your local server. if you are running firefox on your PC/Mac, and OSCAR is on a separate machine, then you need to use the ip address of the server machine

By: Roy

Roy — Sat, 22 May 2010 16:51:44 +0000

I followed the guide and was able to install Oscar properly, except for one thing :
https://localhost:8443/oscar don’t work.
I tried on firefox I get “Firefox can’t establish a connection to the server at localhost:8443.” I searched for hours to find a solution, but no success. I use tomcat5.5 with java-6-sun. Any idea?

Thanks for this great guide!

By: Gary

Gary — Sun, 16 May 2010 03:31:13 +0000

Lots of help, eh? I think we need old Tomcat. Where?

By: Steve Bergman

Steve Bergman — Thu, 13 May 2010 22:52:55 +0000

My Humble apologies, I re-read carefully your instructions, relaized I had a newer version of UBUNTU and that cause all the issues with TomCat. Rebuilt the whole configuration – This time correctly. There were some issues arround the SUN Java build, I believe i managed arrounf the issue. BUT….

When doing the Build I did not get BUILD SUCCESSFUL message, after investigation i found that the lib directory, in the (/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun-1.5.0.22) it does not exist.

Is their a way I can get this without restarting from the begining…..?

Please let me know.

By: Steve Bergman

Steve Bergman — Thu, 13 May 2010 03:18:06 +0000

OK – 8.04.lts is what is required and I have got 10.04.lts – I will start again. Do you know of a mirror site that still offers 8.04.lts? I have traced it via google and other searches and always end up at the 10.04 version.

Sorry but can you assist me?

By: Steve Bergman

Steve Bergman — Thu, 13 May 2010 03:07:26 +0000

Kevin,

I continued on with the installation and then ran into this…

“administrator@ubuntu:~/src/oscar_source$ cd $HOME/src/oscar_source/oscar_mcmaster/build
administrator@ubuntu:~/src/oscar_source/oscar_mcmaster/build$ ant
Error: JAVA_HOME is not defined correctly.
We cannot execute /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun/bin/java”

Do I have to blow the installation out completely and start again? Is this because tomcat was not found?

Sorry by=ut can you advise…

Thanks.

By: Steve Bergman

Steve Bergman — Thu, 13 May 2010 02:58:13 +0000

Kevin,

Tried dowloading the Aptache Tom cat command, it appears that tere may be a obsolete version out there now. Please can you recomend a work around. This is my ERROR Message.

“Package tomcat5.5 is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package tomcat5.5 has no installation candidate”