Re: [Aimmath-developers] installlin.html

[Greg G. <gr...@ma...>]

On Sat, 30 Aug 2003, Gustav W Delius wrote:
> Dear Greg,
> 
> I have looked at your new linux installation instructions. Very nice! I have
> to now polish the windows installation instructions to be able to compete.

Thanks!

> I have two comments:
> 
> 1) Tth no longer needs to be installed because it comes bundled with the AiM
> release. Section 4 of the installation instructions can therefore go.

I wondered why you had left that out of the Windows instructions ... I had
thought it had something to do with the MathML though Moodle discussions 
etc.

I just had a look in AutoConf.mpl, I see that it looks in all the default
places on the system (/usr/local/bin, /usr/bin/, /bin) and then checks
in the webapps/AiM directory ... very nice. I guess the only thing to
say is something along those lines.

> 2) In the section about AiM towards the end of step 2 you say that Tomcat's
> server.xml file is overwritten during installation. That is no longer the
> case.

I guess I didn't understand all the discussion about this. Are you saying
that the default server.xml that Tomcat provides was ok as it was?
Does it by default use port 8080? Is that why the default has been changed
from 80 to 8080? I was going to add some comments about this, as if one
already has an installation using port 80, one has to remember to set that
in ManualConfig.mpl ... otherwise admin.html, index.html and 
DefaultZone.mpl (in root/) are set with :8080 in their paths, and if one
adds port 80 to ManualConfig.mpl afterwards and reruns AutocConfig.mpl
these files are not rewritten (and you have to manually change them).

Is there an advantage to using port 8080 instead of port 80?

> I will make sure that I upload the java and tomcat installation files to
> aimmath.sourceforge.net. It may have to wait until Monday though.

Great! Thanks.

  Regards,
  Greg