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Installatino problem on headless Ubuntu 20.04 server on Digital Ocean

Jamie Sammons, modified 3 Years ago.
Installatino problem on headless Ubuntu 20.04 server on Digital Ocean
New Member Posts: 2 Join Date: 5/15/22 Recent Posts

Hello, I've started on a fresh ubuntu server, installed openjdk 11, setup JAVA_HOME, downloaded the liferay-ce-portal-tomcat-7.4.3.24-ga24-20220510074512112.tar.gz latest version, but am having a problem with the installation.

 

then execute the startup.sh command located in ../tomcat-9.0.56/bin

it start the script but gets stuck in the following place:

 

2022-05-15 13:53:04.471 INFO  [main][PortalContextLoaderListener:123] JVM arguments: --add-opens=java.base/java.lang=ALL-UNNAMED --add-opens=java.base/java.io=ALL-UNNAMED --add-opens=java.base/java.util=ALL-UNNAMED --add-opens=java.base/java.util.concurrent=ALL-UNNAMED --add-opens=java.rmi/sun.rmi.transport=ALL-UNNAMED -Djava.util.logging.config.file=/opt/liferay/tomcat-9.0.56/conf/logging.properties -Djava.util.logging.manager=org.apache.juli.ClassLoaderLogManager -Djdk.tls.ephemeralDHKeySize=2048 -Djava.protocol.handler.pkgs=org.apache.catalina.webresources -Dorg.apache.catalina.security.SecurityListener.UMASK=0027 -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -Djava.locale.providers=JRE,COMPAT,CLDR -Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true -Duser.timezone=GMT -Xms2560m -Xmx2560m -XX:MaxNewSize=1536m -XX:MaxMetaspaceSize=768m -XX:MetaspaceSize=768m -XX:NewSize=1536m -XX:SurvivorRatio=7 -Dignore.endorsed.dirs= -Dcatalina.base=/opt/liferay/tomcat-9.0.56 -Dcatalina.home=/opt/liferay/tomcat-9.0.56 -Djava.io.tmpdir=/opt/liferay/tomcat-9.0.56/temp
2022-05-15 13:53:11.477 WARN  [main][DialectDetector:82] Liferay is configured to use Hypersonic as its database. Do NOT use Hypersonic in production. Hypersonic is an embedded database useful for development and demonstration purposes. The database settings can be changed in portal-ext.properties.
2022-05-15 13:53:11.478 INFO  [main][DialectDetector:153] Using dialect com.liferay.portal.dao.orm.hibernate.HSQLDialect for HSQL Database Engine 2.3
2022-05-15 13:53:17.797 INFO  [main][ModuleFrameworkImpl:1237] Starting initial bundles
2022-05-15 13:53:19.617 INFO  [ModuleFramework-Static-Bundles-2][InterpolationConfigurationPlugin:109] Configured directory for secrets: /opt/liferay/osgi/configs
2022-05-15 13:53:23.061 INFO  [main][ModuleFrameworkImpl:1534] Started initial bundles
2022-05-15 13:53:23.062 INFO  [main][ModuleFrameworkImpl:1583] Starting dynamic bundles
2022-05-15 13:53:48.625 INFO  [main][ModuleFrameworkImpl:1605] Started dynamic bundles
2022-05-15 13:53:48.626 INFO  [main][ModuleFrameworkImpl:1612] Starting web bundles
2022-05-15 13:53:52.891 INFO  [main][ModuleFrameworkImpl:1666] Started web bundles
2022-05-15 13:53:52.891 INFO  [main][ModuleFrameworkImpl:253] Navigate to Control Panel > System > Gogo Shell and enter "lb" to see all bundles
2022-05-15 13:53:56.798 WARN  [main][SidecarManager:103] Liferay automatically starts a child process of Elasticsearch named sidecar for convenient development and demonstration purposes. Do NOT use sidecar in production. Refer to the documentation for details on the limitations of sidecar and instructions on configuring a remote Elasticsearch connection in the Control Panel.

 

Have tried leaving the script running for half and hour and it does nothing.

 

Remeber I'm using a headless server (without desktop).

 

We're eager to work with liferay, so any help will be appreciated.

 

Thanks,

 

Ricardo Malla

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Olaf Kock, modified 3 Years ago.
RE: Installatino problem on headless Ubuntu 20.04 server on Digital Ocean
Liferay Legend Posts: 6441 Join Date: 9/23/08 Recent Posts

Hard to say with just this log. I haven't seen that behavior at all yet.
​​​​​​​Does it also happen on a local server? Can you reproduce anywhere else?

Jamie Sammons, modified 3 Years ago.
RE: Installatino problem on headless Ubuntu 20.04 server on Digital Ocean
New Member Posts: 2 Join Date: 5/15/22 Recent Posts

its a headless server (non desktop) hosted on digital ocean. ubuntu 20.04.

the ./startup.sh just stops.

What other logs can I read to see whats happening?

I spoke to somebody that's well versed on Liferay and he told me that maybe on that part of the installation script the browser pops up for you to continue the installation there, but in my case there's not browser as I'm using the non-desktop version of ubuntu.

 

will this make sense?

 

Is there another way to install the server for production? I tried the AWS bitnami image, which was a breeze to install, but came with some bugs (I uploaded a bunch of pdfs and they were not displayed correctly), so thats why I wanted to install the source code directly.

 

Any ideas?

 

Thanks!

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Olaf Kock, modified 3 Years ago.
RE: RE: Installatino problem on headless Ubuntu 20.04 server on Digital Ocean
Liferay Legend Posts: 6441 Join Date: 9/23/08 Recent Posts

How much memory does your server have?
​​​​​​​Note, as you say "for production use": You should install Elasticsearch separately. The sidecar installation is considered good for demo purposes, but not for production (see installation documentation): It might well be that this exceeds your server's available memory, but it's hard to say from this output.

​​​​​​​Alternatives: Yes, you can run with other images as well - if you run any kind of docker: Liferay also publishes images that you can wire with the proper environmen (elasticsearch, database, file-storage volume) and run this way.

Jamie Sammons, modified 2 Years ago.
RE: Installatino problem on headless Ubuntu 20.04 server on Digital Ocean
New Member Post: 1 Join Date: 12/18/19 Recent Posts

I am facing the same issue in lifraey 7.4 does anyone have any solution??