Xwiki installation not picking up offline (XIP) rep

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Hi all,

I’m currently installing xwiki 9.11.4 in an offline environment. To install the standard flavour I tried to use the XIP-package. Yet the DW can’t find any packages.

This is what I did:

  1. Install and configure xwiki until DW shows up and configured admin user

  2. Download and extract XIP Package as described here

  3. Restart xwiki

  4. Tried to install flavor with DW but nothing is shown.

  5. Checked logs, nothing there.

I’m using the war package with tomcat 8.5.30.

Any ideas, what went wrong?

rbr

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Download and extract XIP Package as described here

Make sure the content of the XIP package directly end up in extension/repository/and not in some subdirectory.

3

I checked, directly below the repository are all those URL encoded directories. Can the DW handle symlinks?

4

Which folder is a symlink ?

5

My permanent directory is configured as /var/local/xwiki-perm/current/ where current is a symlink pointing to /var/local/xwiki-perm/xwiki-9.11-x/

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I just tested with a symlink and it’s working fine for me.

Here is what I did:

  • downloaded “ZIP Package”
  • downloaded “XIP Addon Package for Offline Installs”
  • unzipped xwiki-9.11.4.zip
  • in xwiki-platform-distribution-jetty-hsqldb-9.11.4:
    ** created a data2 folder
    ** ln -s data2 data
    ** unzipped the XIP into data2/extension/repository/
  • started XWiki
    ** create admin user
    ** continue

-> I get the XWiki Standard flavor listed

Could you paste xwiki startup log (the one get while XWiki is initialized by the application server, before you access it with a browser).

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@tmortagne: So I tried again on another machine and actually all got picked up as expected. So why the first machine failed is a bit of a mystery. I fixed the first installation by allowing access to the internet, so everything is fine now.
thanks for your help!

rbr

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Without anything in the log I don’t have much idea but it’s a pity if it’s a bug in XWiki I would have like to find out what it was.