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Notes on upgrading from Orbeon Forms 3.8 to 3.9 Need to change theme.xsl as follows: From:<!– Copy body attributes –> <xsl:apply-templates select=”/xhtml:html/xhtml:body/@*”/> <xsl:apply-templates select=”/xhtml:html/xhtml:body/node()”/> <xsl:for-each select=”/xhtml:html/xhtml:head/xhtml:script”> <xsl:element name=”xhtml:{local-name()}” namespace=”{namespace-uri()}”> <xsl:apply-templates select=”@*|node()”/> </xsl:element> </xsl:for-each> To: <!– Body –> <xsl:apply-templates select=”/xhtml:html/xhtml:body”/> <!– Handle post-body scripts if present. They can be placed here by oxf:resources-aggregator –> <xsl:apply-templates select=”/xhtml:html/xhtml:script”/> […]

Rather carelessly I filled up my root partition and was therefore unable to login as I kept getting thrown back to the login screen The solution was to boot from the original ubuntu iso image via the virtual box settings and ‘Try Ubuntu’ From there it’s possible to mount /dev/sda1 and delete some files to […]

Symptom:Running `mysql` gives:ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can’t connect to local MySQL server through socket ‘/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock’ (2) Running `mysql -h “hostname”` works Fix:Add the following to /etc/hosts.allowmysqld:127.0.0.1:ALLOW

To cut a long story short I needed to ensure that the following lines were present in public_html/php.ini extension=pdo.soextension=pdo_sqlite.soextension=sqlite.soextension=pdo_mysql.so

In Settings/Network select Bridged Adapter if you want to be able to connect to the vm In Settings/Display increase the amount of video memory apt-get updateapt-get upgradeapt-get install dkms reboot Then use the file manager to select/mount the additions so that they can be installed

Create a file settings.xml in ~/.m2 that’s C:Documents and Settingsiwright.m2 in my case using cygwin on XP Create a server entry with the necessary info e.g. if using ssh<servers> <server> <id>cggh</id> <username>iwright</username> <privateKey>C:Documents and Settingsiwright.sshid_rsa</privateKey> <passphrase>mypassphrase</passphrase> <directoryPermissions>775</directoryPermissions> <filePermissions>664</filePermissions> </server> </servers> Note that if you are using cygwin then you will probably need to copy your […]

Creating a web application to update an existing database with Roo is extremely simple… project –topLevelPackage org.cggh.quac –projectName quac –java 6persistence setup –provider HIBERNATE –database MYSQL –databaseName drupal_users –userName drupal6 –password drupal6database introspect –schema drupal_usersdatabase reverse engineer –package ~.model –schema drupal_userscontroller all –package ~.web Some notes:Make sure that the database has foreign keys set upIf […]

With thanks to http://www.mail-archive.com/users@tomcat.apache.org/msg74521.html Although it’s deprecated putting the context in server.xml seems to work quite nicely however if you want to auto deploy e.g. on a CI server then you need to get a bit cleverer…. Don’t keep the application in the appBase – locate it outside of Tomcat’s directory structure, and use the […]