Running BaseX under Tomcat on a commercial Java hosting provider
In case there are other users of XQuery who are looking for a way to get an XQuery engine on the Web but are not sure how to go about it, I have described my adventures setting up one approach (running BaseX 7.9 under Tomcat 6 on a commercial Java hosting provider) in a blog post today, hoping that it might enable someone else to do it with less trouble and confusion than I had: http://cmsmcq.com/mib/?p=1368 When time allows, I expect to upgrade my Tomcat to Tomcat 7 so that I can install a current BaseX; I'll update the post then with information for BaseX 8.*. if those who understand Java development and deployment better than I do (or wish to do) find errors in the exposition or simpler ways to get things set up, I would be glad to have them pointed out. I'd also be interested in speculations as to why setting the default user in web.xml seems not to have worked, but at this point I doubt that it's worth significant effort to solve that problem. -- **************************************************************** * C. M. Sperberg-McQueen, Black Mesa Technologies LLC * http://www.blackmesatech.com * http://cmsmcq.com/mib * http://balisage.net ****************************************************************
This is fantastic documentation. Thank you very much for sharing your notes! Best, Bridger On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 2:41 PM, C. M. Sperberg-McQueen < cmsmcq@blackmesatech.com> wrote:
In case there are other users of XQuery who are looking for a way to get an XQuery engine on the Web but are not sure how to go about it, I have described my adventures setting up one approach (running BaseX 7.9 under Tomcat 6 on a commercial Java hosting provider) in a blog post today, hoping that it might enable someone else to do it with less trouble and confusion than I had:
When time allows, I expect to upgrade my Tomcat to Tomcat 7 so that I can install a current BaseX; I'll update the post then with information for BaseX 8.*.
if those who understand Java development and deployment better than I do (or wish to do) find errors in the exposition or simpler ways to get things set up, I would be glad to have them pointed out.
I'd also be interested in speculations as to why setting the default user in web.xml seems not to have worked, but at this point I doubt that it's worth significant effort to solve that problem.
-- **************************************************************** * C. M. Sperberg-McQueen, Black Mesa Technologies LLC * http://www.blackmesatech.com * http://cmsmcq.com/mib * http://balisage.net ****************************************************************
Michael, Thanks a lot for the entertaining post! I hope your journey was not too frustrating ;) I will have some more thoughts on the hurdles you have encountered. Regarding user management, I hope we have made things easier with BaseX 8 and upwards. Maybe the major advantage now is that the permissions can be edited as (...surprise...) XML. All the best, Christian On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 10:53 PM, Bridger Dyson-Smith <bdysonsmith@gmail.com> wrote:
This is fantastic documentation. Thank you very much for sharing your notes!
Best, Bridger
On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 2:41 PM, C. M. Sperberg-McQueen <cmsmcq@blackmesatech.com> wrote:
In case there are other users of XQuery who are looking for a way to get an XQuery engine on the Web but are not sure how to go about it, I have described my adventures setting up one approach (running BaseX 7.9 under Tomcat 6 on a commercial Java hosting provider) in a blog post today, hoping that it might enable someone else to do it with less trouble and confusion than I had:
When time allows, I expect to upgrade my Tomcat to Tomcat 7 so that I can install a current BaseX; I'll update the post then with information for BaseX 8.*.
if those who understand Java development and deployment better than I do (or wish to do) find errors in the exposition or simpler ways to get things set up, I would be glad to have them pointed out.
I'd also be interested in speculations as to why setting the default user in web.xml seems not to have worked, but at this point I doubt that it's worth significant effort to solve that problem.
-- **************************************************************** * C. M. Sperberg-McQueen, Black Mesa Technologies LLC * http://www.blackmesatech.com * http://cmsmcq.com/mib * http://balisage.net ****************************************************************
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