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Re: [Greenstone-users] greenstone won't start

[Greenstone D. L. T. <gre...@wa...>]

Hi Masa
What version of greenstone did you download? Where from?
If you got it from www.greenstone.org/caveat-emptor<http://www.greenstone.org/caveat-emptor> - these are nightly builds and we don't recommend tto use these unless you are developing.
Please download the 3.12 version of greenstone from www.greenstone.org/download<http://www.greenstone.org/download> and try that.
If that is, in fact, what you did download, then  -

  *
can you run the server ok? (without gli)
  *
try restarting gli again - do you get the same error each time?

Cheers,
katherine
________________________________
From: Maša M <med...@gm...>
Sent: Monday, 1 December 2025 2:56 am
To: gre...@li... <gre...@li...>
Subject: [Greenstone-users] greenstone won't start

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Greetings,

I'm having problems running greenstone, and would need some help as soon as possible. I'm using windows 11, I downloaded greenstone3 (the newest patch) and when i start GLI it starts of normally but then turns into a never-ending line of errors (as depicted in the picture attached). I've checked and the file does exist.
I have tried the troubleshooting guide from your page but it made no chages. Please advise me on how to proceed.

Best regards,
Masa

[Greenstone-users] greenstone won't start

[Maša M <med...@gm...>]

Greetings,

I'm having problems running greenstone, and would need some help as soon as
possible. I'm using windows 11, I downloaded greenstone3 (the newest patch)
and when i start GLI it starts of normally but then turns into a
never-ending line of errors (as depicted in the picture attached). I've
checked and the file does exist.
I have tried the troubleshooting guide from your page but it made no
chages. Please advise me on how to proceed.

Best regards,
Masa

Re: [Greenstone-users] Error in running GLI : Failed to successfully start the GS3 server - Reg.

[Greenstone D. L. T. <gre...@wa...>]

Hi there,
Please try in a terminal window navigating to the Greenstone3 folder and running gs3-setup.bat.
Does that give any errors?

If not, run gs3-server.bat from the same folder.
If that had no errors, try accessing localhost:8383/greenstone3 in a browser.

Does that work?

Regards,
Katherine
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Subject: [Greenstone-users] Error in running GLI : Failed to successfully start the GS3 server - Reg.

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Hi,

My installation failed to start the GS3 server and localhost is also not running in localhost:8383/greenstone3. I got the following debug log. Please advise.
--
Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.

C:\Windows\system32>cd C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\GLI

C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\gli>gs3-server.bat
'gs3-server.bat' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\gli>run gs3-server.bat
'run' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\gli>ant start
'ant' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\gli>cd
C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\gli

C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\gli>cd
C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\gli

C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\gli>cd C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3

C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3>ant start
'ant' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3>cd C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\GLI

C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\gli>gli.bat -debug

Greenstone Librarian Interface (GLI)
Copyright (C) 2008, New Zealand Digital Library Project, University Of Waikato
GLI comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details see LICENSE.txt
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it

"Running gs3-setup-cli.bat"
Set environment variable GSDL3_EXTCLI_HOME:
  C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\ext-cli

Running gs2build\setup.bat
'chcp' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.


 ####                        #
##                           #
#     ###  ##   ##  ### ### ###  ##  ###  ##
#   # #   #### #### # # ##   #  #  # # # ####
##  # #   #    #    # #   #  #  #  # # # #
 #### #    ###  ### # # ###  ##  ##  # #  ###
(C) 2008, New Zealand Digital Library Project




Your environment has successfully been set up to run Greenstone.
Note that these settings will only have effect within this MS-DOS
session. You will therefore need to rerun setup.bat if you want
to run Greenstone programs from a different MS-DOS session.

+Your environment is now setup for the PDFBox Extension

Checking if GSDLHOME is writable...
GSDLHOME has write permission for the current user.

Neither JAVA_HOME nor JRE_HOME set. Will shortly check for bundled JRE of correc
t bitness.
  - Solr API accessed internally via: http://127.0.0.1:8383/solr/
+Your environment is now setup for the Solr Extension

Running local\gs3-setup.bat
Setting JRE_HOME to the bundled JRE_HOME at C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\packages\
jre
Adding JRE_HOME\bin to PATH

JNI bitness test: 32
Using the bundled JRE detected at C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\packages\jre

GSDL3SRCHOME : C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3
GSDL3HOME    : C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\web
JAVA         : C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\packages\jre\bin\java.exe
JRE_HOME     : C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\packages\jre
PERL         : C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\gs2build\bin\windows\strawberry-perl\p
erl\bin
ANT_HOME     : C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\packages\ant

GSDLHOME environment variable is set to C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\gs2build.

Will use this to find build scripts.

Checking if the Greenstone collection directory is writable ...
... OK
Perl:
C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\gs2build\bin\windows\strawberry-perl\perl\bin

Java:
C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\packages\jre\bin\java.exe

Greenstone Major Version :
3

GSDL3SRCHOME:
C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3

GSDL3HOME:
C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\web

GSDLHOME:
C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\gs2build


GhostScript bundled with Greenstone will be used, if you wish to use the version
 installed on your system (if any) please go to C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\gs2bu
ild\bin\windows and rename the folder called ghostscript to something else.


ImageMagick bundled with Greenstone will be used, if you wish to use the version
 installed on your system (if any) please go to C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\gs2bu
ild\bin\windows and rename the folder called imagemagick to something else.


Running the Greenstone Librarian Interface...
Version: 3.12

Debug file path: C:\Users\TNPSc\Application Data\Greenstone\GLI\debug31-9-2025.t
xt
-- listing properties --
java.runtime.name<http://java.runtime.name>=Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment
sun.boot.library.path=C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\packages\j...
java.vm.version=25.301-b09
java.util.prefs.syncInterval=2000000
java.vm.vendor=Oracle Corporation
java.vendor.url=http://java.oracle.com/
path.separator=;
java.vm.name<http://java.vm.name>=Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM
file.encoding.pkg=sun.io<http://sun.io>
user.script=
user.country=IN
sun.java.launcher=SUN_STANDARD
sun.os.patch.level=Service Pack 1
java.vm.specification.name<http://java.vm.specification.name>=Java Virtual Machine Specification
user.dir=C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\gli
java.runtime.version=1.8.0_301-b09
java.awt.graphicsenv=sun.awt.Win32GraphicsEnvironment
java.endorsed.dirs=C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\packages\j...
os.arch=x86
java.io.tmpdir=C:\Users\TNPSc\AppData\Local\Temp\
line.separator=

java.vm.specification.vendor=Oracle Corporation
user.variant=
os.name<http://os.name>=Windows 7
sun.jnu.encoding=Cp1252
java.library.path=C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\packages\j...
sun.awt.enableExtraMouseButtons=true
java.specification.name<http://java.specification.name>=Java Platform API Specification
java.class.version=52.0
sun.management.compiler=HotSpot Client Compiler
os.version=6.1
user.home=C:\Users\TNPSc
user.timezone=Asia/Calcutta
java.awt.printerjob=sun.awt.windows.WPrinterJob
java.specification.version=1.8
file.encoding=Cp1252
user.name<http://user.name>=TNPSc
java.class.path=classes/;GLI.jar;lib/apache.jar;lib/j...
java.vm.specification.version=1.8
sun.arch.data.model=32
java.home=C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\packages\jre
sun.java.command=org.greenstone.gatherer.GathererProg ...
java.specification.vendor=Oracle Corporation
user.language=en
awt.toolkit=sun.awt.windows.WToolkit
java.vm.info<http://java.vm.info>=mixed mode
java.version=1.8.0_301
java.ext.dirs=C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\packages\j...
sun.boot.class.path=C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\packages\j...
sun.stderr.encoding=cp437
java.vendor=Oracle Corporation
file.separator=\
java.vendor.url.bug=http://bugreport.sun.com/bugreport/
sun.cpu.endian=little
sun.io.unicode.encoding=UnicodeLittle
sun.stdout.encoding=cp437
sun.desktop=windows
sun.cpu.isalist=pentium_pro+mmx pentium_pro pentium+m...
  SafeProcess running: cmd /C "cd "C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\\" && ant check-to
mcat-running"
  SafeProcess running: cmd /C "cd "C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\\" && ant configur
e-servlets-xml"
Configuration.library_url = http://localhost:8383/greenstone3
Configuration.gliserver_url = null
Issuing start command to GS3 Server
  SafeProcess running: cmd /C "cd "C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\\" && ant start"
parsing xml file C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\web\WEB-INF\web.xml
### resolveEntity() called for file:///C:/Users/TNPSc/Greenstone3/gli/servlets.x
ml
### searching for entity 'servlets.xml' in: C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\web\WEB-I
NF
         Found C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\web\WEB-INF\servlets.xml
### resolveEntity() called for file:///C:/Users/TNPSc/Greenstone3/gli/flax.xml
### searching for entity 'flax.xml' in: C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\web\WEB-INF
         Found C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\web\WEB-INF\flax.xml
User cache dir: C:\Users\TNPSc\Application Data\Greenstone\GLI\cache\
***** Running ImageMagickTest command: C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\gs2build\bin\w
indows\strawberry-perl\perl\bin\Perl.exe -S gs-magick.pl<http://gs-magick.pl> identify.exe -version
  SafeProcess running: [ C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\gs2build\bin\windows\strawbe
rry-perl\perl\bin\Perl.exe -S gs-magick.pl<http://gs-magick.pl> identify.exe -version]
FileQueue started.
Unmapping recycle...
In loadClassifiersList()...
  SafeProcess running: [ C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\gs2build\bin\windows\strawbe
rry-perl\perl\bin\Perl.exe -S C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\gs2build\bin\script\cla
ssinfo.pl<http://ssinfo.pl> -listall -xml]
In loadPluginsList()...
  SafeProcess running: [ C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\gs2build\bin\windows\strawbe
rry-perl\perl\bin\Perl.exe -S C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\gs2build\bin\script\plu
ginfo.pl<http://ginfo.pl> -gs_version 3 -listall -xml]
PDFBoxConverter: **** Testing for java
Failed to run: java -version &gt;nul 2&gt;&amp;1
Error variable: |No such file or directory| and status: 65280
AutoLoadConverters: PDFBox Extension to Greenstone detected for PDFPlugin
... but it appears to be broken
AutoLoadConverters: Conversion not available (Couldn't run Java.)
WGet thread is waiting for DownloadJobs.
Getting Download Info: [C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\gs2build\bin\windows\strawber
ry-perl\perl\bin\Perl.exe, -S, C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\gs2build\bin\script\do
wnloadinfo.pl<http://wnloadinfo.pl>, -describeall, -xml, -language, en]
  SafeProcess running: [ C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\gs2build\bin\windows\strawbe
rry-perl\perl\bin\Perl.exe -S C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\gs2build\bin\script\dow
nloadinfo.pl<http://nloadinfo.pl> -describeall -xml -language en]
Unmapping ABS_ROOT...
Insert Documents in Greenstone Collections in ABS_ROOT at index 0 [Model: FileSy
stemModel]
Insert Local Filespace in ABS_ROOT at index 1 [Model: FileSystemModel]
Property os.name<http://os.name>: Windows 7
Insert Home Folder (TNPSc) in ABS_ROOT at index 2 [Model: FileSystemModel]
Insert Downloaded Files in ABS_ROOT at index 3 [Model: FileSystemModel]
BaseConfigPane: Main GUI components created.
BaseConfigPane: Main GUI components created.
Unmapping ABS_ROOT...
Insert Files in Greenstone Collections in ABS_ROOT at index 0 [Model: FileSystem
Model]
Insert Local Filespace in ABS_ROOT at index 1 [Model: FileSystemModel]
Property os.name<http://os.name>: Windows 7
Insert Home Folder (TNPSc) in ABS_ROOT at index 2 [Model: FileSystemModel]
Insert Downloaded Files in ABS_ROOT at index 3 [Model: FileSystemModel]
Error: Failed to successfully start the GS3 server.

--
Librarian,
Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission,
TNPSC Road, Broadway,
Chennai - 600 003.
Tamil Nadu, India.

[Greenstone-users] Error in running GLI : Failed to successfully start the GS3 server - Reg.

[Library T. <lib...@gm...>]

Hi,

My installation failed to start the GS3 server and localhost is also not
running in localhost:8383/greenstone3. I got the following debug log.
Please advise.
--
Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.

C:\Windows\system32>cd C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\GLI

C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\gli>gs3-server.bat
'gs3-server.bat' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\gli>run gs3-server.bat
'run' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\gli>ant start
'ant' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\gli>cd
C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\gli

C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\gli>cd
C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\gli

C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\gli>cd C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3

C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3>ant start
'ant' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3>cd C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\GLI

C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\gli>gli.bat -debug

Greenstone Librarian Interface (GLI)
Copyright (C) 2008, New Zealand Digital Library Project, University Of
Waikato
GLI comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details see LICENSE.txt
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it

"Running gs3-setup-cli.bat"
Set environment variable GSDL3_EXTCLI_HOME:
  C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\ext-cli

Running gs2build\setup.bat
'chcp' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.


 ####                        #
##                           #
#     ###  ##   ##  ### ### ###  ##  ###  ##
#   # #   #### #### # # ##   #  #  # # # ####
##  # #   #    #    # #   #  #  #  # # # #
 #### #    ###  ### # # ###  ##  ##  # #  ###
(C) 2008, New Zealand Digital Library Project




Your environment has successfully been set up to run Greenstone.
Note that these settings will only have effect within this MS-DOS
session. You will therefore need to rerun setup.bat if you want
to run Greenstone programs from a different MS-DOS session.

+Your environment is now setup for the PDFBox Extension

Checking if GSDLHOME is writable...
GSDLHOME has write permission for the current user.

Neither JAVA_HOME nor JRE_HOME set. Will shortly check for bundled JRE of
correc
t bitness.
  - Solr API accessed internally via: http://127.0.0.1:8383/solr/
+Your environment is now setup for the Solr Extension

Running local\gs3-setup.bat
Setting JRE_HOME to the bundled JRE_HOME at
C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\packages\
jre
Adding JRE_HOME\bin to PATH

JNI bitness test: 32
Using the bundled JRE detected at C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\packages\jre

GSDL3SRCHOME : C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3
GSDL3HOME    : C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\web
JAVA         : C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\packages\jre\bin\java.exe
JRE_HOME     : C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\packages\jre
PERL         :
C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\gs2build\bin\windows\strawberry-perl\p
erl\bin
ANT_HOME     : C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\packages\ant

GSDLHOME environment variable is set to C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\gs2build.

Will use this to find build scripts.

Checking if the Greenstone collection directory is writable ...
... OK
Perl:
C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\gs2build\bin\windows\strawberry-perl\perl\bin

Java:
C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\packages\jre\bin\java.exe

Greenstone Major Version :
3

GSDL3SRCHOME:
C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3

GSDL3HOME:
C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\web

GSDLHOME:
C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\gs2build


GhostScript bundled with Greenstone will be used, if you wish to use the
version
 installed on your system (if any) please go to
C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\gs2bu
ild\bin\windows and rename the folder called ghostscript to something else.


ImageMagick bundled with Greenstone will be used, if you wish to use the
version
 installed on your system (if any) please go to
C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\gs2bu
ild\bin\windows and rename the folder called imagemagick to something else.


Running the Greenstone Librarian Interface...
Version: 3.12

Debug file path: C:\Users\TNPSc\Application
Data\Greenstone\GLI\debug31-9-2025.t
xt
-- listing properties --
java.runtime.name=Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment
sun.boot.library.path=C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\packages\j...
java.vm.version=25.301-b09
java.util.prefs.syncInterval=2000000
java.vm.vendor=Oracle Corporation
java.vendor.url=http://java.oracle.com/
path.separator=;
java.vm.name=Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM
file.encoding.pkg=sun.io
user.script=
user.country=IN
sun.java.launcher=SUN_STANDARD
sun.os.patch.level=Service Pack 1
java.vm.specification.name=Java Virtual Machine Specification
user.dir=C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\gli
java.runtime.version=1.8.0_301-b09
java.awt.graphicsenv=sun.awt.Win32GraphicsEnvironment
java.endorsed.dirs=C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\packages\j...
os.arch=x86
java.io.tmpdir=C:\Users\TNPSc\AppData\Local\Temp\
line.separator=

java.vm.specification.vendor=Oracle Corporation
user.variant=
os.name=Windows 7
sun.jnu.encoding=Cp1252
java.library.path=C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\packages\j...
sun.awt.enableExtraMouseButtons=true
java.specification.name=Java Platform API Specification
java.class.version=52.0
sun.management.compiler=HotSpot Client Compiler
os.version=6.1
user.home=C:\Users\TNPSc
user.timezone=Asia/Calcutta
java.awt.printerjob=sun.awt.windows.WPrinterJob
java.specification.version=1.8
file.encoding=Cp1252
user.name=TNPSc
java.class.path=classes/;GLI.jar;lib/apache.jar;lib/j...
java.vm.specification.version=1.8
sun.arch.data.model=32
java.home=C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\packages\jre
sun.java.command=org.greenstone.gatherer.GathererProg ...
java.specification.vendor=Oracle Corporation
user.language=en
awt.toolkit=sun.awt.windows.WToolkit
java.vm.info=mixed mode
java.version=1.8.0_301
java.ext.dirs=C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\packages\j...
sun.boot.class.path=C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\packages\j...
sun.stderr.encoding=cp437
java.vendor=Oracle Corporation
file.separator=\
java.vendor.url.bug=http://bugreport.sun.com/bugreport/
sun.cpu.endian=little
sun.io.unicode.encoding=UnicodeLittle
sun.stdout.encoding=cp437
sun.desktop=windows
sun.cpu.isalist=pentium_pro+mmx pentium_pro pentium+m...
  SafeProcess running: cmd /C "cd "C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\\" && ant
check-to
mcat-running"
  SafeProcess running: cmd /C "cd "C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\\" && ant
configur
e-servlets-xml"
Configuration.library_url = http://localhost:8383/greenstone3
Configuration.gliserver_url = null
Issuing start command to GS3 Server
  SafeProcess running: cmd /C "cd "C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\\" && ant
start"
parsing xml file C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\web\WEB-INF\web.xml
### resolveEntity() called for
file:///C:/Users/TNPSc/Greenstone3/gli/servlets.x
ml
### searching for entity 'servlets.xml' in:
C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\web\WEB-I
NF
         Found C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\web\WEB-INF\servlets.xml
### resolveEntity() called for
file:///C:/Users/TNPSc/Greenstone3/gli/flax.xml
### searching for entity 'flax.xml' in:
C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\web\WEB-INF
         Found C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\web\WEB-INF\flax.xml
User cache dir: C:\Users\TNPSc\Application Data\Greenstone\GLI\cache\
***** Running ImageMagickTest command:
C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\gs2build\bin\w
indows\strawberry-perl\perl\bin\Perl.exe -S gs-magick.pl identify.exe
-version
  SafeProcess running: [
C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\gs2build\bin\windows\strawbe
rry-perl\perl\bin\Perl.exe -S gs-magick.pl identify.exe -version]
FileQueue started.
Unmapping recycle...
In loadClassifiersList()...
  SafeProcess running: [
C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\gs2build\bin\windows\strawbe
rry-perl\perl\bin\Perl.exe -S
C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\gs2build\bin\script\cla
ssinfo.pl -listall -xml]
In loadPluginsList()...
  SafeProcess running: [
C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\gs2build\bin\windows\strawbe
rry-perl\perl\bin\Perl.exe -S
C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\gs2build\bin\script\plu
ginfo.pl -gs_version 3 -listall -xml]
PDFBoxConverter: **** Testing for java
Failed to run: java -version >nul 2>&1
Error variable: |No such file or directory| and status: 65280
AutoLoadConverters: PDFBox Extension to Greenstone detected for PDFPlugin
... but it appears to be broken
AutoLoadConverters: Conversion not available (Couldn't run Java.)
WGet thread is waiting for DownloadJobs.
Getting Download Info:
[C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\gs2build\bin\windows\strawber
ry-perl\perl\bin\Perl.exe, -S,
C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\gs2build\bin\script\do
wnloadinfo.pl, -describeall, -xml, -language, en]
  SafeProcess running: [
C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\gs2build\bin\windows\strawbe
rry-perl\perl\bin\Perl.exe -S
C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\gs2build\bin\script\dow
nloadinfo.pl -describeall -xml -language en]
Unmapping ABS_ROOT...
Insert Documents in Greenstone Collections in ABS_ROOT at index 0 [Model:
FileSy
stemModel]
Insert Local Filespace in ABS_ROOT at index 1 [Model: FileSystemModel]
Property os.name: Windows 7
Insert Home Folder (TNPSc) in ABS_ROOT at index 2 [Model: FileSystemModel]
Insert Downloaded Files in ABS_ROOT at index 3 [Model: FileSystemModel]
BaseConfigPane: Main GUI components created.
BaseConfigPane: Main GUI components created.
Unmapping ABS_ROOT...
Insert Files in Greenstone Collections in ABS_ROOT at index 0 [Model:
FileSystem
Model]
Insert Local Filespace in ABS_ROOT at index 1 [Model: FileSystemModel]
Property os.name: Windows 7
Insert Home Folder (TNPSc) in ABS_ROOT at index 2 [Model: FileSystemModel]
Insert Downloaded Files in ABS_ROOT at index 3 [Model: FileSystemModel]
Error: Failed to successfully start the GS3 server.

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Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission,
TNPSC Road, Broadway,
Chennai - 600 003.
Tamil Nadu, India.

Re: [Greenstone-users] Display of date in friendly format

[Greenstone D. L. T. <gre...@wa...>]

Hi Renate,
You are using the following choose-title template:

<gsf:template name="choose-title">
                                <gsf:choose-metadata>
                                        <gsf:metadata name="dc.Date"/>
                                        <gsf:metadata format="FormatDate" name="dc.Date"/>
                                        <gsf:metadata name="Title"/>
                                        <gsf:default>No date</gsf:default>
                                </gsf:choose-metadata>
                        </gsf:template>

This will display the first item that matches  - a plain dc.Date. If you remove that first dc.Date line, then the formatted version will be the first one in the list, and will be used.

Regards,
Katherine
________________________________
From: Renate Morgenstern via Greenstone-Users <gre...@li...>
Sent: Monday, 6 October 2025 7:15 am
To: greenstone-users <gre...@li...>
Subject: [Greenstone-users] Display of date in friendly format

Hi,
I have a collection of PDF files. I am not satisfied with the display of the date in the Subject classifier. I would like to see the date displayed in human format under the Subjec; See screenshot.
What should be changes in the collectionConfig,xml?
Thanks for the help.
Renate


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[Greenstone-users] Display of date in friendly format

[Renate M. <rmo...@iw...>]

Hi,
I have a collection of PDF files. I am not satisfied with the display
of the date in the Subject classifier. I would like to see the date
displayed in human format under the Subjec; See screenshot.
What should be changes in the collectionConfig,xml?
Thanks for the help.
Renate

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Tel.: +264 61 242124
Cell: +264 81 2910284
10023, Windhoek, Namibia

Re: [Greenstone-users] Disabling Favourite basket per collection

[Greenstone D. L. T. <gre...@wa...>]

Hi again Renate,

I have updated the favourites page in the wiki. https://wiki.greenstone.org/doku.php?id=en:user:favourites

The <paramDefault name="favouritebasket" value="off"/> part needs to be added to siteConfig.xml's top level <format> element.
Then restart the server, and use a new private window for testing.
All this does is set the default value to off, and the user can turn it back on in preferences.
To disable them completely for a collection, use the custom gslib technique.

Regards,
Katherine


________________________________
From: Greenstone Digital Library Team via Greenstone-Users <gre...@li...>
Sent: Friday, 3 October 2025 1:38 pm
To: greenstone-users <gre...@li...>; rmo...@iw... <rmo...@iw...>
Subject: Re: [Greenstone-users] Disabling Favourite basket per collection

Hi Renate,
I just had a try of this, and its not working at all. I thought maybe it only works if you put that paramDefault in the siteConfig, but thats not working either 🙁
So I'll need to look into this.

You can achieve it a different way.

  1.
If there is only one collection in the library, or you are happy with no collections having favourites: - edit resources/web/servlets.xml.in and set the favouritebasket init param to false for the servlet you are using. Then restart the server (ant-restart-with-exts.sh)
  2.
If you really just want to turn off favourites for only one collection, then add the attached gslib.xsl into the collection, into its transform folder (you may need to create that if it doesn't already have one). (use files tab in GLI, or on the command line go to web/sites/<sitename>/collect/<collname>) This just redefines the templates to display the stars and the link to favourites to be empty. You shouldn't need to restart.


Hopefully one of these solutions will work for you, and I will add to my list looking at how to set the param.

Regards,
katherine

________________________________
From: Renate Morgenstern via Greenstone-Users <gre...@li...>
Sent: Thursday, 2 October 2025 4:19 am
To: greenstone-users <gre...@li...>
Subject: [Greenstone-users] Disabling Favourite basket per collection

Hi,
I wan to disable the Favourites Basket for a collection.
In the collectionConfig.xml file I added this:  But the star is still there after a tomcat restart.
Where should this be done.
Thanks
Renate
.....
</displayItem>
</displayItemList>
<format>
<param name="favouritebasket" value="off"/>
</format>
<format>
<gsf:template name="choose-title">
<gsf:choose-metadata>
<gsf:metadata name="dc.Title"/>
<gsf:metadata name="Title"/>
<gsf:default>Untitled</gsf:default>
</gsf:choose-metadata>   ...
</gsf:template>

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Re: [Greenstone-users] Disabling Favourite basket per collection

[Greenstone D. L. T. <gre...@wa...>]

Hi Renate,
I just had a try of this, and its not working at all. I thought maybe it only works if you put that paramDefault in the siteConfig, but thats not working either 🙁
So I'll need to look into this.

You can achieve it a different way.

  1.
If there is only one collection in the library, or you are happy with no collections having favourites: - edit resources/web/servlets.xml.in and set the favouritebasket init param to false for the servlet you are using. Then restart the server (ant-restart-with-exts.sh)
  2.
If you really just want to turn off favourites for only one collection, then add the attached gslib.xsl into the collection, into its transform folder (you may need to create that if it doesn't already have one). (use files tab in GLI, or on the command line go to web/sites/<sitename>/collect/<collname>) This just redefines the templates to display the stars and the link to favourites to be empty. You shouldn't need to restart.


Hopefully one of these solutions will work for you, and I will add to my list looking at how to set the param.

Regards,
katherine

________________________________
From: Renate Morgenstern via Greenstone-Users <gre...@li...>
Sent: Thursday, 2 October 2025 4:19 am
To: greenstone-users <gre...@li...>
Subject: [Greenstone-users] Disabling Favourite basket per collection

Hi,
I wan to disable the Favourites Basket for a collection.
In the collectionConfig.xml file I added this:  But the star is still there after a tomcat restart.
Where should this be done.
Thanks
Renate
.....
</displayItem>
</displayItemList>
<format>
<param name="favouritebasket" value="off"/>
</format>
<format>
<gsf:template name="choose-title">
<gsf:choose-metadata>
<gsf:metadata name="dc.Title"/>
<gsf:metadata name="Title"/>
<gsf:default>Untitled</gsf:default>
</gsf:choose-metadata>   ...
</gsf:template>

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Tel.: +264 61 242124
Cell: +264 81 2910284
10023, Windhoek, Namibia

[Greenstone-users] Disabling Favourite basket per collection

[Renate M. <rmo...@iw...>]

Hi,
I wan to disable the Favourites Basket for a collection.
In the collectionConfig.xml file I added this:  But the star is still
there after a tomcat restart.
Where should this be done.
Thanks
Renate
.....
</displayItem>
</displayItemList>
<format>
<param name="favouritebasket" value="off"/>
</format>
<format>
<gsf:template name="choose-title">
<gsf:choose-metadata>
<gsf:metadata name="dc.Title"/>
<gsf:metadata name="Title"/>
<gsf:default>Untitled</gsf:default>
</gsf:choose-metadata>   ...
</gsf:template>
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Tel.: +264 61 242124
Cell: +264 81 2910284
10023, Windhoek, Namibia

Re: [Greenstone-users] CollectionConfig.xml and html code

[Greenstone D. L. T. <gre...@wa...>]

Have you got a separate greenstone install (or GLI install) for client-gli? You'll need to put the new GLI.jar into that also.
Regards,
Katherine
________________________________
From: Renate Morgenstern <rmo...@iw...>
Sent: Thursday, 4 September 2025 6:29 am
To: Greenstone Digital Library Team <gre...@wa...>
Cc: greenstone-users <gre...@li...>
Subject: Re: [Greenstone-users] CollectionConfig.xml and html code

Hi ,

I have done and it works for GLI.jar and using the unescaped HTML code.   However,  when using the client-gli.sh the same error occurs.
What file should I download the extract to correct file.
Thanks
Renate


Hi Renate,
I have attached a new GLI.jar. This is taken from the latest nightly build, so it has the few changes that have been made since the release.

Please rename your existing GLI.jar so you can go back to it if the new one doesn't work for some reason.
greenstone3/gli/GLI.jar - eg rename to GLI.jar.original

Then copy the new one into that folder.

If you are using webswing GLI, then you'll need to do the same thing (replacing GLI.jar) in web/ext/webswing/apps/gli.

Does it work for you with the new GLI?
Note, Make sure you haven't got the escaped version of the description in the collectionConfig.xml file. It should look like HTML eg <a href=""> rather than being escaped eg &lt;a href=""&gt;

Cheers,
Katherine
________________________________
From: Renate Morgenstern <rmo...@iw...>
Sent: Wednesday, 3 September 2025 6:48 am
To: Greenstone Digital Library Team <gre...@wa...>
Subject: Re: [Greenstone-users] CollectionConfig.xml and html code

Hi Katherine,

I have changed the site for the collections that it looks like this. The collections are listed in the right column.
This is why I added the html code <href="  "  in the description of the collection.
See attached zip file of the home-tutorial.xsl

Regards and thanks
Renate


[cid:3d5...@iw...-0]
Hi Renate,
Thanks for sending your collectionConfig.xml snippet.

It turns out there is a bug in GLI - if the collection description had quotes in it - in your case this is in the <a href=""> part - then these would be escaped, resulting in invalid XML.

I have fixed this in the greenstone repository, for the next release.

In the meantime, please add the html into the coll-description template in your collection's transform/pages/about.xsl file. You should have this file if you started with a new collection (rather than basing it on an existing collection). if not, copy the one out of web/sites/modelsite/collect/modelcol/transform/pages/about.xsl into your collection, and edit that.
(if this is the collection where you had to move the transform folder out of the way, try adding just the transform/pages/about.xsl back in - does that work?)


Regards,
Katherine

________________________________
From: Greenstone Digital Library Team via Greenstone-Users <gre...@li...>
Sent: Wednesday, 27 August 2025 1:17 pm
To: greenstone-users <gre...@li...>; rmo...@iw... <rmo...@iw...>
Subject: Re: [Greenstone-users] CollectionConfig.xml and html code

Hi Renate,
Please send the part of the collectionConfig showing what you have entered there, and where it fits into the file (ie what tag its inside).
And what are the error messages you get when building?

Are you just trying to add a link from the about page of a collection? You could add the html into the coll-description template in your collection's transform/pages/about.xsl file?
If not, please give more description of what you are trying to achieve.

Regards,
Katherine

________________________________
From: Renate Morgenstern via Greenstone-Users <gre...@li...>
Sent: Wednesday, 27 August 2025 3:59 am
To: greenstone-users <gre...@li...>
Subject: [Greenstone-users] CollectionConfig.xml and html code

Hi,

I added  html code into the collectionConfig.xml file at the top to point to a another site.
When the collection is opened the link works, but when adding documents and building the collection it gives an error message, and it can't be opened again, unless I comment out the code.
Where else could I add pointers to other site for the user.
Thanks in advance for the help.
Renate





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Tel.: +264 61 242124
Cell: +264 81 2910284
10023, Windhoek, Namibia

Re: [Greenstone-users] CollectionConfig.xml and html code

[Renate M. <rmo...@iw...>]

Hi ,

I have done and it works for GLI.jar and using the unescaped HTML code.
  However,  when using the client-gli.sh the same error occurs.
What file should I download the extract to correct file.
Thanks 
Renate


> 
> Hi Renate,
> I have attached a new GLI.jar. This is taken from the latest nightly
> build, so it has the few changes that have been made since the
> release.
> 
> 
> Please rename your existing GLI.jar so you can go back to it if the
> new one doesn't work for some reason.
> greenstone3/gli/GLI.jar - eg rename to GLI.jar.original
> 
> 
> Then copy the new one into that folder.
> 
> 
> If you are using webswing GLI, then you'll need to do the same thing
> (replacing GLI.jar) in web/ext/webswing/apps/gli.
> 
> 
> Does it work for you with the new GLI? 
> Note, Make sure you haven't got the escaped version of the
> description in the collectionConfig.xml file. It should look like
> HTML eg <a href=""> rather than being escaped eg &lt;a href=""&gt;
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Katherine
> From: Renate Morgenstern <rmo...@iw...>
> Sent: Wednesday, 3 September 2025 6:48 am
> To: Greenstone Digital Library Team <gre...@wa...>
> Subject: Re: [Greenstone-users] CollectionConfig.xml and html code
>  
> 
> Hi Katherine,
> 
> I have changed the site for the collections that it looks like this.
> The collections are listed in the right column.
> This is why I added the html code <href="  "  in the description of
> the collection.
> See attached zip file of the home-tutorial.xsl
> 
> Regards and thanks
> Renate
> 
> 
> > Hi Renate,
> > Thanks for sending your collectionConfig.xml snippet.
> > 
> > 
> > It turns out there is a bug in GLI - if the collection description
> > had quotes in it - in your case this is in the <a href=""> part -
> > then these would be escaped, resulting in invalid XML.
> > 
> > 
> > I have fixed this in the greenstone repository, for the next
> > release.
> > 
> > 
> > In the meantime, please add the html into the coll-description
> > template in your collection's transform/pages/about.xsl file. You
> > should have this file if you started with a new collection (rather
> > than basing it on an existing collection). if not, copy the one out
> > of web/sites/modelsite/collect/modelcol/transform/pages/about.xsl
> > into your collection, and edit that.
> > (if this is the collection where you had to move the transform
> > folder out of the way, try adding just the
> > transform/pages/about.xsl back in - does that work?)
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Katherine
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > From: Greenstone Digital Library Team via Greenstone-Users
> > <gre...@li...>
> > Sent: Wednesday, 27 August 2025 1:17 pm
> > To: greenstone-users <gre...@li...>;
> > rmo...@iw... <rmo...@iw...>
> > Subject: Re: [Greenstone-users] CollectionConfig.xml and html code
> >  
> > 
> > Hi Renate,
> > Please send the part of the collectionConfig showing what you have
> > entered there, and where it fits into the file (ie what tag its
> > inside).
> > And what are the error messages you get when building?
> > 
> > 
> > Are you just trying to add a link from the about page of a
> > collection? You could add the html into the coll-description
> > template in your collection's transform/pages/about.xsl file?
> > If not, please give more description of what you are trying to
> > achieve.
> > 
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Katherine
> > 
> > 
> > From: Renate Morgenstern via Greenstone-Users <greenstone-
> > us...@li...>
> > Sent: Wednesday, 27 August 2025 3:59 am
> > To: greenstone-users <gre...@li...>
> > Subject: [Greenstone-users] CollectionConfig.xml and html code
> >  
> > 
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I added  html code into the collectionConfig.xml file at the top to
> > point to a another site.
> > When the collection is opened the link works, but when adding
> > documents and building the collection it gives an error message,
> > and it can't be opened again, unless I comment out the code.
> > Where else could I add pointers to other site for the user.
> > Thanks in advance for the help.
> > Renate
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 

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Tel.: +264 61 242124
Cell: +264 81 2910284
10023, Windhoek, Namibia

Re: [Greenstone-users] CollectionConfig.xml and html code

[Greenstone D. L. T. <gre...@wa...>]

Hi Renate,
Thanks for sending your collectionConfig.xml snippet.

It turns out there is a bug in GLI - if the collection description had quotes in it - in your case this is in the <a href=""> part - then these would be escaped, resulting in invalid XML.

I have fixed this in the greenstone repository, for the next release.

In the meantime, please add the html into the coll-description template in your collection's transform/pages/about.xsl file. You should have this file if you started with a new collection (rather than basing it on an existing collection). if not, copy the one out of web/sites/modelsite/collect/modelcol/transform/pages/about.xsl into your collection, and edit that.
(if this is the collection where you had to move the transform folder out of the way, try adding just the transform/pages/about.xsl back in - does that work?)


Regards,
Katherine
________________________________
From: Greenstone Digital Library Team via Greenstone-Users <gre...@li...>
Sent: Wednesday, 27 August 2025 1:17 pm
To: greenstone-users <gre...@li...>; rmo...@iw... <rmo...@iw...>
Subject: Re: [Greenstone-users] CollectionConfig.xml and html code

Hi Renate,
Please send the part of the collectionConfig showing what you have entered there, and where it fits into the file (ie what tag its inside).
And what are the error messages you get when building?

Are you just trying to add a link from the about page of a collection? You could add the html into the coll-description template in your collection's transform/pages/about.xsl file?
If not, please give more description of what you are trying to achieve.

Regards,
Katherine
________________________________
From: Renate Morgenstern via Greenstone-Users <gre...@li...>
Sent: Wednesday, 27 August 2025 3:59 am
To: greenstone-users <gre...@li...>
Subject: [Greenstone-users] CollectionConfig.xml and html code

Hi,

I added  html code into the collectionConfig.xml file at the top to point to a another site.
When the collection is opened the link works, but when adding documents and building the collection it gives an error message, and it can't be opened again, unless I comment out the code.
Where else could I add pointers to other site for the user.
Thanks in advance for the help.
Renate



--

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Tel.: +264 61 242124
Cell: +264 81 2910284
10023, Windhoek, Namibia

Re: [Greenstone-users] CollectionConfig.xml and html code

[Greenstone D. L. T. <gre...@wa...>]

Hi Renate,
Please send the part of the collectionConfig showing what you have entered there, and where it fits into the file (ie what tag its inside).
And what are the error messages you get when building?

Are you just trying to add a link from the about page of a collection? You could add the html into the coll-description template in your collection's transform/pages/about.xsl file?
If not, please give more description of what you are trying to achieve.

Regards,
Katherine
________________________________
From: Renate Morgenstern via Greenstone-Users <gre...@li...>
Sent: Wednesday, 27 August 2025 3:59 am
To: greenstone-users <gre...@li...>
Subject: [Greenstone-users] CollectionConfig.xml and html code

Hi,

I added  html code into the collectionConfig.xml file at the top to point to a another site.
When the collection is opened the link works, but when adding documents and building the collection it gives an error message, and it can't be opened again, unless I comment out the code.
Where else could I add pointers to other site for the user.
Thanks in advance for the help.
Renate



--

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Tel.: +264 61 242124
Cell: +264 81 2910284
10023, Windhoek, Namibia

[Greenstone-users] CollectionConfig.xml and html code

[Renate M. <rmo...@iw...>]

Hi,

I added  html code into the collectionConfig.xml file at the top to
point to a another site.
When the collection is opened the link works, but when adding documents
and building the collection it gives an error message, and it can't be
opened again, unless I comment out the code.
Where else could I add pointers to other site for the user.
Thanks in advance for the help.
Renate


-- 


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Tel.: +264 61 242124
Cell: +264 81 2910284
10023, Windhoek, Namibia

Re: [Greenstone-users] Viewing a newly created collection - GS3.12 Linux

[Greenstone D. L. T. <gre...@wa...>]

Hi Renate,
This indicates there is something wrong with a stylesheet somewhere.
Do you see any errors in web/logs/greenstone.log?

You said you have made changes in the default interface? If other collections display ok, then that is probably not the issue. But if no collections display ok, then maybe these changes are to blame?

If its just the current collection that is not working, then it must be a problem in - etc/collectionConfig.xml? or the collection's transform folder. You could try moving the transform folder out of the way (eg transform.tmp) so that its not being used. Does that change things?

Anyway, hopefully the greenstone.log file will give you more clues about what has gone wrong.
Regards,
Katherine
________________________________
From: Renate Morgenstern via Greenstone-Users <gre...@li...>
Sent: Monday, 25 August 2025 6:08 am
To: greenstone-users <gre...@li...>
Cc: Katherine Don <kj...@wa...>
Subject: [Greenstone-users] Viewing a newly created collection - GS3.12 Linux

Hi,

Good day,

I have created a new collection on Greenstone 3 on Linux and when viewing, I get the following error message: The following error occurred:
XMLTransformer.transform(Doc, Doc, HashMap, Doc) couldn't load stylesheet/.

 I have also built a new collection based on an existing collection, and I get the same error. Where is the error?
 In catalina.out file, I see this when the collection can be opened: 24-Aug-2025 18:50:14.057 INFO [http-nio-8383-exec-17] org.greenstone.gsdl3.LibraryServlet.logUsageInfo /library [a=p c=pagefron l=en sa=about] session:[user_session_cache=org.greenstone.gsdl3.LibraryServlet$UserSessionCache@25bb04e7<mailto:user_session_cache=org.greenstone.gsdl3.LibraryServlet$UserSessionCache@25bb04e7> l=en favouritebasket=on] 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1 271F3CDB5C0395A60A219D4CC8A82B67 Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/138.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 . Whe I view a new collection, I get: 24-Aug-2025 18:12:29.644 SEVERE [http-nio-8383-exec-19] org.greenstone.gsdl3.util.XMLTransformer.transform couldn't create transformer
24-Aug-2025 18:30:10.842 INFO [http-nio-8383-exec-14] org.greenstone.gsdl3.LibraryServlet.logUsageInfo /library [a=s sa=ping excerptid=gs_content] session:[] 127.0.0.1 null Wget/1.17.1 (linux-gnu)

I noticed that in the new collection there are new folders:   resources, script, style, and transform with configuration .css files.
I have changed the default interface by changing some files in the default folder.   Could this cause the problem with the site not displaying?
Thanks for the help.
Regards
Renate




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Tel.: +264 61 242124
Cell: +264 81 2910284
10023, Windhoek, Namibia

[Greenstone-users] Viewing a newly created collection - GS3.12 Linux

[Renate M. <rmo...@iw...>]

Hi,

Good day,

I have created a new collection on Greenstone 3 on Linux and when
viewing, I get the following error message: The following error
occurred:
XMLTransformer.transform(Doc, Doc, HashMap, Doc) couldn't load
stylesheet/.

 I have also built a new collection based on an existing collection,
and I get the same error. Where is the error?
 In catalina.out file, I see this when the collection can be opened:
24-Aug-2025 18:50:14.057 INFO [http-nio-8383-exec-17]
org.greenstone.gsdl3.LibraryServlet.logUsageInfo /library [a=p
c=pagefron l=en sa=about]
session:[user_session_cache=org.greenstone.gsdl3.LibraryServlet$UserSessionCache@25bb04e7
l=en favouritebasket=on] 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1
271F3CDB5C0395A60A219D4CC8A82B67 Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64)
AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/138.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 .
Whe I view a new collection, I get: 24-Aug-2025 18:12:29.644 SEVERE
[http-nio-8383-exec-19]
org.greenstone.gsdl3.util.XMLTransformer.transform couldn't create
transformer
24-Aug-2025 18:30:10.842 INFO [http-nio-8383-exec-14]
org.greenstone.gsdl3.LibraryServlet.logUsageInfo /library [a=s sa=ping
excerptid=gs_content] session:[] 127.0.0.1 null Wget/1.17.1 (linux-gnu)

I noticed that in the new collection there are new folders:  
resources, script, style, and transform with configuration .css files.
I have changed the default interface by changing some files in the
default folder.   Could this cause the problem with the site not
displaying?
Thanks for the help.
Regards
Renate



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Tel.: +264 61 242124
Cell: +264 81 2910284
10023, Windhoek, Namibia

Re: [Greenstone-users] Description of Collection not displaying

[Greenstone D. L. T. <gre...@wa...>]

Hi Renate,
Do you get the "the collection contains xx documents...." bit showing up, but not the collection description text you entered in GLI?

Try adding the following to the start of your coll-description template.
<xsl:apply-templates select="displayItemList/displayItem[@name='description']"/>

Does that work now?
Cheers,
Katherine
________________________________
From: Renate Morgenstern via Greenstone-Users <gre...@li...>
Sent: Sunday, 17 August 2025 6:29 pm
To: greenstone-users <gre...@li...>
Cc: Katherine Don <kj...@wa...>
Subject: [Greenstone-users] Description of Collection not displaying

Hi,

My problem is that the description of a collection is not displaying when I add the following code in the collectionConfig.xml:
<!--
<xsl:template name="coll-description"><xsl:variable name="raw_date"><gslib:collectionMeta name="buildDate"/></xsl:variable> This collection contains<gsf:space/><gslib:collectionMeta name="numDocs"/> documents and was built<gsf:space/><xsl:value-of select="util:formatTimeStamp($raw_date, 0, 3, /page/@lang<mailto:/page/@lang>)"/> days ago.</xsl:template>
-->
When I comment it, the description is showing.  I removed the picture, as I thought that it my hide the text.
Where should this place this code?
Thanks



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10023, Windhoek, Namibia

Re: [Greenstone-users] WebSwing GLI - GS 3.12

[Greenstone D. L. T. <gre...@wa...>]

Hi Renate,
Because webswing GLI is running on a server, we don't allow open access into the filesystem.
You can upload files into a collection using the upload button - one of the big buttons at the bottom of the Gather pane.
As webswing only allows uploading one file at once, its best to zip up the files that you want to add, upload the zip file, then you can right click the zip file and unzip it.

If your files are actually already on the server, you can manually copy them into the import folder using a terminal, then use GLI to add metadata and configure the collection.

Cheers,
Katherine
________________________________
From: Renate Morgenstern via Greenstone-Users <gre...@li...>
Sent: Tuesday, 19 August 2025 1:29 am
To: greenstone-users <gre...@li...>
Cc: Katherine Don <kj...@wa...>
Subject: [Greenstone-users] WebSwing GLI - GS 3.12

Hi,

How does one add new documents to a collection with the Webswing GLI?
I can only open the Greenstone documents folder. Has it  something to do with the user as registered on Greenstone 3.
I opened the collections as an admin user.
Thanks for more information.
Renate

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Tel.: +264 61 242124
Cell: +264 81 2910284
10023, Windhoek, Namibia

[Greenstone-users] WebSwing GLI - GS 3.12

[Renate M. <rmo...@iw...>]

Hi,

How does one add new documents to a collection with the Webswing GLI?
I can only open the Greenstone documents folder. Has it  something to
do with the user as registered on Greenstone 3.
I opened the collections as an admin user.
Thanks for more information.
Renate
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Tel.: +264 61 242124
Cell: +264 81 2910284
10023, Windhoek, Namibia

[Greenstone-users] Description of Collection not displaying

[Renate M. <rmo...@iw...>]

Hi,

My problem is that the description of a collection is not displaying
when I add the following code in the collectionConfig.xml:
<!--
<xsl:template name="coll-description"><xsl:variable
name="raw_date"><gslib:collectionMeta name="buildDate"/></xsl:variable>
This collection contains<gsf:space/><gslib:collectionMeta
name="numDocs"/> documents and was built<gsf:space/><xsl:value-of
select="util:formatTimeStamp($raw_date, 0, 3, /page/@lang)"/> days
ago.</xsl:template>
-->
When I comment it, the description is showing.  I removed the picture,
as I thought that it my hide the text.
Where should this place this code?
Thanks


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Tel.: +264 61 242124
Cell: +264 81 2910284
10023, Windhoek, Namibia

Re: [Greenstone-users] WebSwing GLI problem

[Greenstone D. L. T. <gre...@wa...>]

Hi Renate,
Webswing GLI will be running as the user that Tomcat is run as - Change Tomcat to be run using the same user that you installed greenstone as, and that you are using when you login to the server. This refers to the server users, nothing to do with greenstone users of the library.

Regards,
Katherine

________________________________
From: Renate Morgenstern <rmo...@iw...>
Sent: Thursday, 24 July 2025 6:29 pm
To: Greenstone Digital Library Team <gre...@wa...>; gre...@li... <gre...@li...>
Subject: WebSwing GLI problem

Hi,

I had a problem when building collections with a script and a cron job, it stopped shortly after starting. In the import log file I could see that it could not read the collectionConfig.xml file as it was owned by root. I then saw that when using WebSwing GLI it changes the ownership to root. We login with the user name as registered name on the GS3 database.
I have for the time added a line to change to ownership to the user before the importing an building runs. Is this the only solution?
Thanks
Renate

===============
Renate Morgenstern
Tel.: +264 61 242124
Cell: +264 81 2910284
10023, Windhoek, Namibia

[Greenstone-users] WebSwing GLI problem

[Renate M. <rmo...@iw...>]

Hi, 

I had a problem when building collections with a script and a cron job,
it stopped shortly after starting. In the import log file I could see
that it could not read the collectionConfig.xml file as it was owned by
root. I then saw that when using WebSwing GLI it changes the ownership
to root. We login with the user name as registered name on the GS3
database.
I have for the time added a line to change to ownership to the user
before the importing an building runs. Is this the only solution?
Thanks
Renate

===============


Renate Morgenstern
Tel.: +264 61 242124
Cell: +264 81 2910284
10023, Windhoek, Namibia

Re: [Greenstone-users] Greenstone 3.11. Message when importing

[Greenstone D. L. T. <gre...@wa...>]

Hi Renate,
Are you getting lots of these messages or just a few? Is there any text in the specified files?
Are these files automatically generated ones from eg Word/PDF processing?
If they contain text that is not English, you could set a default encoding maybe to the plugin? Although depends what the original files are.
Your collectionConfig would help.

If you don't care that its happening and just don't want to see the messages, lower the verbosity of the import - to 2 or less.

Regards,
Katherine

________________________________
From: Renate Morgenstern via Greenstone-Users <gre...@li...>
Sent: Wednesday, 23 July 2025 5:09 am
To: gre...@li... <gre...@li...>
Subject: [Greenstone-users] Greenstone 3.11. Message when importing

Hi,

I checked the log file when Greenstone 3 is importing the documents.
I see:
ReadTextFile: WARNING: language could not be extracted from /usr/local/Greenstone3/web/sites/localsite/collect/selected/cached/25thbirthday/slaying/pages/32.txt - defaulting to en
ReadTextFile: WARNING: encoding could not be extracted from /usr/local/Greenstone3/web/sites/localsite/collect/selected/cached/25thbirthday/slaying/pages/32.txt - defaulting to utf8
What should I change in my configuration so that this is not showing anymore?

Thanks
Renate

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Renate Morgenstern
Tel.: +264 61 242124
Cell: +264 81 2910284
10023, Windhoek, Namibia

[Greenstone-users] Greenstone 3.11. Message when importing

[Renate M. <rmo...@iw...>]

Hi,

I checked the log file when Greenstone 3 is importing the documents.
I see:
ReadTextFile: WARNING: language could not be extracted from
/usr/local/Greenstone3/web/sites/localsite/collect/selected/cached/25th
birthday/slaying/pages/32.txt - defaulting to en
ReadTextFile: WARNING: encoding could not be extracted from
/usr/local/Greenstone3/web/sites/localsite/collect/selected/cached/25th
birthday/slaying/pages/32.txt - defaulting to utf8
What should I change in my configuration so that this is not showing
anymore?

Thanks
Renate 
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Tel.: +264 61 242124
Cell: +264 81 2910284
10023, Windhoek, Namibia

[Greenstone-users] Greenstone 3.12 out now!

[Greenstone D. L. T. <gre...@wa...>]

We've exciting news!

The GS3.12 binaries are out at last and available for the following OS:
      - Windows (tested on Win 10)
      - Mac binary generated on Monterey (Mac 12.7.6) but tested on Sonoma (MacOS 14.7.6)
      - 32 and 64 bit binaries for Linux are now out. 64 bit binary tested on Ubuntu 20.046 LTS. 32 bit binary untested.

- Download from: https://greenstone.org/download      
- Release Notes (installation instructions and more): http://wiki.greenstone.org/doku.php?id=en:release:3.12_release_notes
- Tutorials: http://wiki.greenstone.org/doku.php?id=en:tutorials, under the Greenstone 3 tab.

Many thanks to the Greenstone team of translators.

All the best,
The Greenstone developer team