I looked through tons of articles, but couldn't find a solution. It seems as if folder structure of biserver-manual
changes from a version to a version. For example, one guy suggests here unzipping the archive with folders administration-console
and biserver-ce
as a first step of installation process, however, there are no such folders in version 5.0.1. Another guy suggests here navigating to \biserver-manual-ce\pentaho-webapp\WEB-INF\web.xml
to make some editions, but once again there is no such file in a package. When I unzip it, I see only pentaho.war
, pentaho-style.war
, pentaho-data.zip
and pentaho-solutions.zip
. So, I really need a complete guide of biserver
installation. What I now have is: Apache Tomcat 8.0 and Apache Ant 1.9.3. I also have MySQL Server 5.5 and want to connect it with Pentaho.
I tried these four links:
http://woodlouse.blogspot.ru/2013/01/the-worlds-first-install-guide-for.html
http://habrahabr.ru/post/187782/
http://helicaltech.com/pentaho-5-0-1-ce-integration-mysql-5-0-1-ce-windows-linux-family/
Each one leads to a 404 error and a long list of errors in pentaho.log. I just wonder, who have ever seen Pentaho in work? Is it even possible?
Yes. I have installed the community edition on Tomcat 7. I am able to login but I still testing it. Try this tutorial: http://pentaho-bi-suite.blogspot.com.es/2014/01/installation-of-pentaho-501-ce-with.html
I also took a lot of ideas from here:
http://pablotips.blogspot.com.es/p/installing-tomcat-and-pentaho.html
Some tips:
The Tomcat distribution come with some folders. Copy the Data, pentaho-solutions and licenses to the same directory as tomcat. You will need it.
Do not change the name of the the Tomcat they give you: C:\Pentaho\server\biserver-ee\tomcat\webapps but if you change it you need to update solution-path in web.xml
You need to start the Tomcat with enough memory. Copy the parameters from the start-pentaho.bat. Update the service or the start script.
You need to configure the "_PENTAHO_JAVA" and "_PENTAHO_JAVA_HOME" variables
In tomcat\webapps\pentaho\META-INF\context.xml docbase should be docBase. This will avoid one warning but I still find errors and warnings in the logs.
In \webapps\pentaho\docs there is a lot of documentation that can be helpfull.
Before point 4 "Executing MySQL .sql scripting files for Pentaho Integration" the server should be able to start and work with some demo data in hsql.
On point 5.III of the tutorial it tells who to change the META-INF/context.xml highlighting the change of URL but forgot to highligth the change of driver to MySQL and validationQuery.
If you find some Quartz initialization problems see create an empty table
Good look and please report any other finding.