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[rmh3093]

Im trying to set up Zimbra from the svn source on my Gentoo box. I have come to a point where I have been stuck for a while and I can't seem to figure out from the wiki/forum what exactly I need to do. I am fairly sure it has to do with ldap. This is what I have done so far:

Installed Deps:
Sun JDK 1.5
MySQL 5.1
OpenLDAP w/ berkdb support
Cyrus-SASL
Ant 1.6
Tomcat 5.5
Postfix

Source Compiled:
cd ${S}/ZimbraServer
ant dev-dist localhost-ssl-cert
cd ${S}/ZimbraWebClient
ant dev-dist admin-dev-war
cd ${S}/Ajax
ant
cd ${S}/Zimlet
ant package package-zimlets-extra

Install (NOTE: i tweaked the config files to point to proper gentoo paths not /opt/zimbra):
cp -R ${S}/ZimbraServer/build/dist/openldap/etc/openldap/* /etc/openldap
cp -R ${S}/ZimbraServer/conf/ldap/slapd.conf /etc/openldap
cp -R ${S}/ZimbraServer/conf/ldap/DB_CONFIG /var/lib/openldap-data
cp -R ${S}/ZimbraServer/conf/postfix/* /etc/postfix

Additional Install: (I installed there here just incase i needed to find something)
cp -R ${S}/{ZimbraServer,ZimbraWebClient,Ajax,Zimlet}/build/dist/* /opt/zimbra

Config:
I tweaked the my.cf file so that mysql listens on port 7306
I set the root password for mysql to zimbra
I imported db.sql and loggerdb.sql into mysql
I started tomcat and browsed to the manager and depoyed zimbra.war,zimbraAdmin.war, and service.war

Start services:
i can start slapd with the gentoo init script with the modified zimbra confs
i can start postfix with the gentoo init script with the modified zimbra confs
i can start tomcat fine
i can start mysql fine

Testing:
I can navigate to http://localhost:7070/zimbra and I see the ajax site and I can switch to the html site
I can navigate to https://localhost:7071/zimbraAdmin and all I see is a cream background, no images
When I try to log in with tomcat stops.


I dont know where to go from here... Any help would be great.

[dkarp]

Any chance it has something to do with the error described in this posting?

[rmh3093]

No, it does not seem to be related to post.... I found and applied the patch in the bugzilla .... the Admin page still only shows a background and tomcat crashes

I did notice that If I undeploy the service.war tomcat dose not crash....

instead I get (INVALID_PDU) when i try to login

[rmh3093]

Here is the output of the tomcat log.... it shows that things start fine, but I dont get any errors when tomcat crashes.


cat /var/log/tomcat-5.5/catalina.2006-12-17.log

Dec 17, 2006 2:25:04 PM org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol init
INFO: Initializing Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-7070
Dec 17, 2006 2:25:05 PM org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol init
INFO: Initializing Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-7443
Dec 17, 2006 2:25:05 PM org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol init
INFO: Initializing Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-7071
Dec 17, 2006 2:25:05 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina load
INFO: Initialization processed in 1797 ms
Dec 17, 2006 2:25:05 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService start
INFO: Starting service Catalina
Dec 17, 2006 2:25:05 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine start
INFO: Starting Servlet Engine: Apache Tomcat/5.5
Dec 17, 2006 2:25:05 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost start
INFO: XML validation disabled
Dec 17, 2006 2:25:06 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployWAR
INFO: Deploying web application archive zimbraAdmin.war
Dec 17, 2006 2:25:06 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployWAR
INFO: Deploying web application archive zimbra.war
Dec 17, 2006 2:25:07 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployWAR
INFO: Deploying web application archive service.war
Dec 17, 2006 2:25:08 PM org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol start
INFO: Starting Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-7070
Dec 17, 2006 2:25:08 PM org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol start
INFO: Starting Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-7443
Dec 17, 2006 2:25:08 PM org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol start
INFO: Starting Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-7071
Dec 17, 2006 2:25:08 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina start
INFO: Server startup in 3410 ms

[rmh3093]

http://localhost:7070/zimbra/?debug=3

code: "NETWORK_ERROR",
detail: "Empty HTTP response",
method: "ZmCsfeCommand.prototype.invoke",
msg: "Csfe service error"

[rmh3093]

i now think tomcat is crashing because of permission issue.... gentoo init scripts start tomcat with user&group=tomcat but I think I remember reading that the user/group is hardcoded somewhere to zimbra but I do not remember where I saw this.... if this is the case (the the user/group is hardcode) where is it in the code so I can change this?

[dkarp]

I believe you need to run tomcat as the zimbra user.

[rmh3093]

i tried chaning the init script to run tomcat as zimbra:zimbra but then I cant get tomcat to start at all like that (there is even a little warning in the config about chaning the username/pass breaking things), i tried also changing all tomcat related files to be owned by zimbra but that didnt seem to work

[dkarp]

The permissions and ownership on /opt/zimbra should match the results of running the zmfixperms script. If that's not how it looks, you're deviating pretty widely from how we're running on all other flavors of Linux.

[rmh3093]

oh yes... i know i am straying from the pack in setting this up.... but for gentoo it really seems pointless for me to modify the build scripts and create gentoo defs just to build static binaries... gentoo systems are too dynamic since we build from source all the time....

...i have looked into many of the zm* scripts and most of them do things that there are already scripts for in gentoo (starting and stoping of mysql,slapd,tomcat,... and all the 3rd party apps),gentoo users are used to manually adding mysql databases for webapps anyway. Some of the more complicated tasks... such as deploying the wars can be done though the tomcat manager, setting up ldap w/ ldapmodify it also not that hard of a task.... i think I am very close to having a live svn ebuild complete for zimbra if I could only get the permissions of zimbra to mesh better with gentoo