Re: Usergrid properties file

[Martin Harris <ma...@cloudsoftcorp.com>]

Hi Ed,

Thanks for your feedback. Sorry for the late reply, I was caught up with
another issue yesterday. When 'deploying to cloud', the processes I was
following was as follows:

*Manually:*

   - Checkout and build latest code from github[1]

*Using brooklyn[2]:*

   - Provision 2 Ubuntu machines on Softlayer
   - One the first machine, download install and launch Cassandra
   - On the second machine, download and install (but not launch) tomcat
   - Copy over the properties file (based on [3]) to the tomcat's lib
   folder, replacing the cassandra URL with the appropriate URL for the
   cassandra machine, and the localhost URLs with the URL of the tomcat server
   - Copy the stack/rest/target/ROOT.war from step 1 to ROOT.war on the
   tomcat server
   - Start tomcat

The issues that I was having was that if the properties file is named
usergrid-deployment.properties as suggested in [2], it doesn't seem to get
picked up, if the properties file is named usergrid-custom.properties, then
it is picked up. However, if I use the .war file from maven as you
suggested in an earlier email, then the properties file isn't picked up no
matter what it's named

For an automated deployment, as you said, it's not desirable for a build to
be a necessary step in the process, so it would be nice to be able to
download the .war from somewhere such as maven

Cheers


[1]: https://github.com/usergrid/usergrid
[2]: https://github.com/cloudsoft/brooklyn-usergrid
[3]: https://usergrid.incubator.apache.org/docs/deploy-local/


On 30 April 2014 16:51, Ed Anuff <ed...@anuff.com> wrote:

> When you say "deploy to cloud", what do you mean?  The properties file
> is loaded by Spring from the local environment or the classpath and
> for deployments to a Tomcat, the custom properties are typically
> bundled into the WAR file.  Since you're taking the approach of
> building a WAR and deploying it to a Tomcat, your options would be to
> include the custom properties into the WAR build or to somehow place
> the properties into Tomcat (not sure how that's done).  For the
> latter, the Spring config might need to be changed to reflect where
> those properties are to be found.  Since it seems not to be desirable
> for a build to be a necessary step in a deploy, I'd love to see a way
> that the properties can be loaded from another location. Ideally Todd
> or someone else familiar with the current property loading can chime
> in.
>
> Ed
>
> > On Apr 30, 2014, at 3:13 AM, Martin Harris <
> martin.harris@cloudsoftcorp.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Folks,
> >
> > I'm having a little trouble getting usergrid to pick up the properties
> > file. If I build the .war from the latest code on github then it only
> gets
> > picked up if I copy it to lib/usergrid-custom.properties[1] (but not to
> > lib/usergrid.properties or lib/usergrid-deployment.properties). If I
> > download the war from maven (as suggested by Ed), then it doesn't seem to
> > get picked up from lib/usergrid.properties,
> lib/usergrid-custom.properties
> > or lib/usergrid-deployment.properties
> >
> > I'm assuming that the problem is that the properties file isn't being
> > picked up, the actual problem is as follows:
> >
> >   - Building the .war from github and using
> >   lib/usergrid-custom.properties, everthing works fine on both localhost
> and
> >   a pair of cloud hosts
> >   - Using the same deployment mechanism[2], and .war, if I deploy to the
> >   cloud with the properties file in lib/usergrid-custom.properties the
> status
> >   shows as cassandraAvailable: false, however if I deploy locally
> >   cassandraAvailable is true, but the login and password in the
> properties
> >   file don't work. I'm assuming the cassandra URL defaults to
> localhost:9160
> >   if no properties file is loaded?
> >   - If I use the .war from maven, cassandraAvailable is false on both
> >   localhost and the cloud, and with the properties file in both -custom
> and
> >   -deployment
> >
> > I hope this makes sense... any help would be appreciated
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > [1]:
> > https://github.com/usergrid/usergrid/blob/master/stack/config/README.txt
> > [2]: https://github.com/cloudsoft/brooklyn-usergrid (WIP!)
> >
> > --
> > Martin Harris
> > Lead Software Engineer
> > Cloudsoft Corporation Ltd
> > www.cloudsoftcorp.com
>



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