[Lenya Wiki] Update of "TestDrivingLenya1.4-HEAD" by JörnNettingsmeier

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If you feel adventurous, you might want to play with the latest development version of Lenya, even if you are a mere mortal like me and not a Lenya committer. Here's a page where I will collect my findings and all the help I got from folks on the Lenya mailing lists. - JörnNettingsmeier

== Why use 1.4? ==

Simple. Because it's the latest and greatest, and open source is always more fun at the bleeding edge. :-D

When I asked whether it would be safe and sane to adopt 1.4 for a project that is due by christmas 2005 (and indicated my willingness to deal with the occasional problem or rough edge), GregorRothfuss said:
 "the data should stay pretty stable, while the code might not. recently, a jcr import usecase was added that might help with future migration scenarios.

 with your deadlines, i would strongly recommend 1.4." 

Ok. Here we go.

== Prerequisites ==

For testing, I created a directory /srv/lenya, where my test installation will live. I also created a user and group "lenya" with no login permissions, so that I can run Lenya as that user. If it ever gets compromised, it buys me time to react, since the attacker will have very limited rights at the beginning and will need to exploit further weaknesses before s/he can do anything interesting to my box.

=== Getting Lenya ===

First, you need to check out the latest source code of Lenya-1.4:

 yourhost:/srv/lenya # svn co http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/lenya/trunk lenya-1.4.x

(Check the "official" SVN documentation at http://lenya.apache.org/1_4/installation/subversion.html in case the procedure changes)

=== Getting Cocoon ===

Since 1.4-HEAD is a developer release, the docs are sometimes a little out-of-date. You will need the most recent Cocoon-2.1.x release from SVN, because the release versions do not yet include the javax.jcr package with special code for content repositories.

There is currently a problem with a broken link on the Cocoon download page, and Antonio Gallardo tells me the snapshots are currently broken. He recommends checking out

 yourhost:/srv/lenya # svn co http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/cocoon/branches/BRANCH_2_1_X/

=== Configuring the Lenya Build ===

First of all, create your own config file:

 yourhost:/srv/lenya # cp build.properties local.build.properties

With your favourite vi, change the value of '''cocoon.src.dir''' to '''../BRANCH_2_1_X/'''. Since I want to play with asset uploads, I set '''enable.uploads''' to '''true'''. I won't bother with Tomcat yet - the built-in servlet engine is good enough for testing.

There is no need to build Cocoon manually - the Lenya build process will take care of that.

=== Building ===

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