Roller 2.1 on GlassFish

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Deploying href="http://rollerweblogger.org/">Roller 2.1 on href="https://glassfish.dev.java.net">GlassFish.

The Roller 2.1 switched its security system to the Acegi security
framework and moved away from container managed authentication. 
This allows deploying the Roller on GlassFish without having to add a custom JDBC Realm.



Please refer to href="http://rollerweblogger.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=InstallationGuide_2.x">The
Roller InstallationGuide for complete installation and
configuration steps for the Roller Weblogger Project.

STEP 1: Prerequisites

STEP 2: Download\Install GlassFish

1. href="https://glassfish.dev.java.net/public/downloadsindex.html">Download
GlassFish 

(

style="font-family: monospace;">java -Xmx256m -jar filename.jar

3. cd glassfish

4. Run:

See the href="http://glassfish.dev.java.net/downloads/quickstart/index.html">GlassFish
Quick Start Guide for basic steps to start the server and deploy an
application.

STEP 3: Download\Install Roller

Step 3.1 : Download Roller

1. 
   Download Roller 2.1. 
   (The official Roller 2.1 release should be out style="font-weight: bold;">very soon.  For now, you'll have to get it from its subversion repository and build it yourself). 
   



2. 
   Unpack the downloaded TAR file.
   
   

Step 3.2 : Minor changes to Roller

STEP 4: Create Roller tables in
your database

Now you need to create a new database,
create a user with
appropriate privileges, and use an SQL script to create the database
tables required to run Roller. To do this, login to your database and
run one of the Roller database creation scripts located in Roller's
WEB-INF/dbscripts directory.

• WEB-INF/dbscripts/mysql/creatdb.sql - creates tables for MySQL
• WEB-INF/dbscripts/derby/createdb.sql - creates tables for Derby
• WEB-INF/dbscripts/postgresql/creatdb.sql - creates tables for
  PostgreSQL

The examples below show you how you might
do this using MySQL,
assuming your Roller user will have username scott and password tiger.
For more information on MySQL, refer to the MySQL Reference Manual.

Make sure you enable UTF-8 support in class="wikipage"
href="http://www.mysql.com/http://rollerweblogger.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=MySQL">MySQL
(see page href="http://rollerweblogger.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=SettingUpUTF8OnMySQL">Setting
Up UTF8 on MySQL for details).

UNIX example

Windows example, from an MS-DOS or
Command Prompt window:

Notes:

MySQL users, don't forget to call "flush
privileges" and make sure
that your href="http://rollerweblogger.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=MySQL">MySQL
installation hasn't set the href="http://rollerweblogger.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=DebianMySQL">skip-networking
option. Connector/J
can only access MySQL via TCP/IP. The MySQL command line tool however
doesn't use TCP/IP sockets by default. To check whether your connect
works, use anything other than "localhost" as host, for example:

STEP 5: JDBC connection

Step 5.1 : JDBC driver jar

Step 5.2 : JDBC Connection Pool Setting

Create JDBC Connection Pool (Admin GUI
-> Application Server
-> Resources -> JDBC -> Connection Pools)

<jdbc-connection-pool allow-non-component-callers="false"
datasource-classname="com.mysql.jdbc.jdbc2.optional.MysqlConnectionPoolDataSource">
<property name="user" value="scott"/>
<property name="port" value="3306"/>
<property name="password" value="tiger"/>
<property name="databaseName" value="roller"/>
<property name="serverName" value="localhost"/>
</jdbc-connection-pool>

Step 5.3 : JDBC Resource Setting

<jdbc-resource enabled="true"
jndi-name="jdbc/rollerdb" object-type="user" pool-name="MySQL"/>

STEP 6: Deploy Roller to GlassFish

Step 6.1: sun-web.xml 

sun-web.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<!--
 Copyright 2004-2005 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
 Use is subject to license terms.
-->

<!DOCTYPE sun-web-app PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Application Server 8.1 Servlet 2.4//EN" class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"
href="http://www.sun.com/software/appserver/dtds/sun-web-app_2_4-1.dtd">"http://www.sun.com/software/appserver/dtds/sun-web-app_2_4-1.dtd">

<sun-web-app>

<session-config>
<session-manager>
</session-manager>
</session-config>

<resource-ref>
<res-ref-name>jdbc/rollerdb</res-ref-name>
<jndi-name>jdbc/rollerdb</jndi-name>
</resource-ref>

<class-loader delegate="false"/>

</sun-web-app>

<class-loader delegate="false"/> is to address
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Step 6.2: Create war file

% cd <temp_dir>/roller% jar
cvf ../roller.war *

Step 6.3: Deploy roller.war to GlassFish

Step 6.4: Security
permission

// permission for Roller: file upload, log setting, etc :

grant codeBase "file:${com.sun.aas.installRoot}/domains/domain1/applications/j2ee-modules/roller/-" {
permission java.security.AllPermission;
};

grant codeBase "file:${com.sun.aas.installRoot}/domains/domain1/generated/jsp/j2ee-modules/roller/-" {
permission java.security.AllPermission;
};

Now you should be able to check out your Roller app by accessing
http://localhost:8080/roller and register your first admin user. 
Check out the Roller href="http://rollerweblogger.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=UserGuide">UserGuide
for more info. href="http://blogs.sun.com/roller/resources/akihito/roller_on_sun_java_system_application_server_7.html">



Thanks to Allen Gilliland from the Roller team for helping me with Roller questions.



References:  href="http://rollerweblogger.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=InstallationGuide_2.x">Roller
Installation Guide and href="http://blogs.sun.com/roller/resources/akihito/roller_on_sun_java_system_application_server_7.html">Roller
Installation Guide on SJSAS7SE