getting started

["Thomas F. Lavery" <la...@genome.wi.mit.edu>]

Hi y'all,

I just discovered Velocity and I think it kicks ass.  Unfortunately, I
can't get the examples to work.  I always receive an error message saying
that either 1) the template cannnot be found or 2) the servlet is not
responding.  I tried using 2 different downloads of Velocity and neither
worked for the servlet or forum examples.

I guess that I need somebody to tell me the basics.  Where do I put my
velocity prooperties file and how does the servlet reference it?  Is the
properties file necessary?  Is there a specific directory tree needed?

I'm really excited to get going so any help will be *greatly* appreciated.
:)

Thanks!!!
Thomas Lavery

Re: getting started

["Geir Magnusson Jr." <ge...@optonline.net>]

"Thomas F. Lavery" wrote:
> 
> Hi y'all,
> 
> I just discovered Velocity and I think it kicks ass.  Unfortunately, I
> can't get the examples to work.  I always receive an error message saying
> that either 1) the template cannnot be found or 2) the servlet is not
> responding.  I tried using 2 different downloads of Velocity and neither
> worked for the servlet or forum examples.
> 
> I guess that I need somebody to tell me the basics.  Where do I put my
> velocity prooperties file and how does the servlet reference it?  Is the
> properties file necessary?  Is there a specific directory tree needed?
> 
> I'm really excited to get going so any help will be *greatly* appreciated.
> :)

There was a couple of responses already - 

however, take a look, if you haven't already, at the
examples/servlet_example that is in CVS.  It was modified to try to
alleviate some of the confusion that you are experiencing by
autoconfiguring itself.

Note that this is *not* in the 1.0.1 release, but rather in the CVS
only.  It will be in the 1.1 release.

How are you running the examples, and which ones?

geir

-- 
Geir Magnusson Jr.                           geirm@optonline.net
System and Software Consulting
Developing for the web?  See http://jakarta.apache.org/velocity/
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Re: getting started

[Francisco Hernandez <xy...@earthlink.net>]

ive had this problem aswell

i had to set WEB-INF/conf/velocity.properties using using the full path:
file.resource.loader.path = /home/x/Java/tomcat/webapps/forumdemo/template

and them for some servers such as Orion Server I had to set WEB-INF/web.xml
to:

<web-app>
    <servlet>
     <servlet-name>forum</servlet-name>

<servlet-class>org.apache.velocity.demo.ControllerServlet</servlet-class>
      <init-param>
        <param-name>properties</param-name>
        <param-value>/WEB-INF/conf/velocity.properties</param-value>
        <!-- original value was WEB-INF/conf/velocity.properties ( no
leading '/' )
        anyone know if this is a bug in Orion Server?
        -->
      </init-param>
    </servlet>
</web-app>

this is all with the forumdemo though, hope it helps.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas F. Lavery" <la...@genome.wi.mit.edu>
To: <ve...@jakarta.apache.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2001 6:56 PM
Subject: getting started


>
> Hi y'all,
>
> I just discovered Velocity and I think it kicks ass.  Unfortunately, I
> can't get the examples to work.  I always receive an error message saying
> that either 1) the template cannnot be found or 2) the servlet is not
> responding.  I tried using 2 different downloads of Velocity and neither
> worked for the servlet or forum examples.
>
> I guess that I need somebody to tell me the basics.  Where do I put my
> velocity prooperties file and how does the servlet reference it?  Is the
> properties file necessary?  Is there a specific directory tree needed?
>
> I'm really excited to get going so any help will be *greatly* appreciated.
> :)
>
> Thanks!!!
> Thomas Lavery
>
>
>