Distribution Wizard didn't show up when the first access

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#1

I’m installing Xwiki 15.6 following the document of InstallationWAR
and get an empty page when i first access xwiki.

I refered to DistributionWizard_Troubleshooting trying to install the standard flavors with XIP package.
I have read almost every topic of this forum about XIP offline installation but still didn’t work.
What i miss?

packages version is listed below:
Tomcat 8.5.92
JDK 11
Oracle 19c (19.3)
Xwiki xwiki-platform-distribution-war-15.6.war
XIP xwiki-platform-distribution-flavor-xip-15.6.xip

what i did for configuration:

  1. uncompress war packge to /usr/local/tomcat/webapps/

  2. set the permanent directory to /usr/local/xwiki_data/

> root@c51d7bda7a10:/usr/local/tomcat/webapps/xwiki_15/WEB-INF# cat xwiki.properties | grep permanent
> # environment.permanentDirectory = /var/lib/xwiki/data/
> #-# The default is {environment.permanentDirectory}/jobs/
> #-# The default is the subfolder "store/solr" inside folder defined by the property "environment.permanentDirectory".
> #-# should be sent will still be created in the permanent directory (named 140600000XWIKI19869DataMigration-users.txt).
> #-# should be sent will still be created in the permanent directory (named 140600000XWIKI19869DataMigration-users.txt).
> #-# The default is ${environment.permanentDirectory}/store/file.
> environment.permanentDirectory = /usr/local/xwiki_data/
> root@c51d7bda7a10:/usr/local/tomcat/webapps/xwiki_15/WEB-INF#
  1. unzip xwiki-platform-distribution-flavor-xip-15.6.xip to /usr/local/xwiki_data/extension/repository/
    BTW: is it ok to see ‘%2E’ ‘%3A’ in the folder name?
    And do i have to copy the .xar and .xed files to the root of /usr/local/xwiki_data/extension/repository/ ?

root@c51d7bda7a10:/usr/local/xwiki_data/extension/repository# ll | head
total 468
drwxr-xr-x 115 root root 12288 Aug 19 06:47 ./
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Aug 19 14:04 …/
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jul 31 04:38 com%2Eapptasticsoftware%3Arssreader/
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jul 31 04:38 com%2Egithub%2Edocker-java%3Adocker-java-api/
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jul 31 04:38 com%2Egithub%2Edocker-java%3Adocker-java-core/
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jul 31 04:38 com%2Egithub%2Edocker-java%3Adocker-java-transport/
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jul 31 04:38 com%2Egithub%2Edocker-java%3Adocker-java-transport-httpclient5/
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jul 31 04:38 com%2Egithub%2Ekklisura%2Ecdt%3Acdt-java-client/
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jul 31 04:38 net%2Ejava%2Edev%2Ejna%3Ajna/
root@c51d7bda7a10:/usr/local/xwiki_data/extension/repository# ll | tail
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jul 31 04:38 org%2Exwiki%2Eplatform%3Axwiki-platform-user-directory-ui/
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jul 31 04:38 org%2Exwiki%2Eplatform%3Axwiki-platform-user-profile-ui/
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jul 31 04:38 org%2Exwiki%2Eplatform%3Axwiki-platform-whatsnew-api/
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jul 31 04:38 org%2Exwiki%2Eplatform%3Axwiki-platform-whatsnew-ui/
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jul 31 04:38 org%2Exwiki%2Eplatform%3Axwiki-platform-wiki-ui-common/
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jul 31 04:38 org%2Exwiki%2Eplatform%3Axwiki-platform-wiki-ui-mainwiki/
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jul 31 04:38 org%2Exwiki%2Eplatform%3Axwiki-platform-wiki-ui-wiki/
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jul 31 04:38 org%2Exwiki%2Eplatform%3Axwiki-platform-wysiwyg-ui/
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jul 31 04:38 org%2Exwiki%2Eplatform%3Axwiki-platform-xclass-ui/
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jul 31 04:38 org%2Exwiki%2Erendering%3Axwiki-rendering-transformation-linkchecker/
root@c51d7bda7a10:/usr/local/xwiki_data/extension/repository#

  1. The tomcat directory is own by root and I started tomcat as root for now, so there should not be a permission problem as far as i know .

PS : I restarted tomcat after changing configuration files .

#2

It’s been almost a year since I installed our copy, but I don’t remember this step :thinking:

Empty as in totally blank? Without any text nor even the window has a title? What’s in your browser devtools network tab? Is there a 200 for that empty page?

Can you post your catalina.out file?

#3

I think you’re at least missing the database / Hibernate file configuration step.
I never used Oracle, but this is the page: https://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Documentation/AdminGuide/Installation/InstallationWAR/InstallationOracle/

#4

by Empty Xwik Page, i mean the screenshot in the link below.
https://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Documentation/AdminGuide/EmptyWiki/

i can see the xwiki main page, but only few functions are enabled because standard extensions(which is provided by XIP package) are not installed .

The hibernate config file has been modified (sorry for not mentioning it at the first place), and i have checked oracle database that the tables were created successfully.

I didn’t find catalina.out in the log dir of tomcat, but i will provide catalina..log later.

#5

Ah, I see.
In the page it says this may happen if you quit the wizard.

Fine, I may have mistaken the filename.

Given the above, I don’t think I can help you further, but if this is a new (fresh) installation, it may be easier to delete everything and start over.

#6

Hi, if you have exited from DW, you have to re-run your instance after these changes - Install applications etc without existing management applications - #4 by tmortagne. In addition, some database administration might also need resolving.