Unable to get started with ApacheDS

[Mikko Wuokko <Mi...@evtek.fi>]

Hi.

I've been trying to get ApacheDS running properly. I've tried to use the 
binary package of the 0.9.3 version with the pre-packed jars and with 
those the server starts up nicely. But when I try to import some sample 
data from as described at 
http://docs.safehaus.org/display/APACHEDS/Import+some+sample+data
but it only says

An error occured while processing the LDIF file:

javax.naming.NameNotFoundException: [LDAP: error code 32 - failed to add 
entry ou=people,o=sevenSeas]; remaining name 'ou=people,o=sevenSeas'

also it fails if I try to import it in the server.xml config with this 
exception

[12:48:00] ERROR [org.apache.protocol.common.store.LdifFileLoader] - 
Failed to import LDIF into backing store.
java.lang.NullPointerException
         at 
org.apache.protocol.common.store.LdifFileLoader.execute(LdifFileLoader.java:142)
         at 
org.apache.ldap.server.jndi.ServerContextFactory.loadLdifs(ServerContextFactory.java:336)
         at 
org.apache.ldap.server.jndi.ServerContextFactory.afterStartup(ServerContextFactory.java:134)
         at 
org.apache.ldap.server.DefaultDirectoryService.startup(DefaultDirectoryService.java:209)
         at 
org.apache.ldap.server.jndi.AbstractContextFactory.getInitialContext(AbstractContextFactory.java:102)
         at 
javax.naming.spi.NamingManager.getInitialContext(NamingManager.java:667)
         at 
javax.naming.InitialContext.getDefaultInitCtx(InitialContext.java:247)
         at javax.naming.InitialContext.init(InitialContext.java:223)
         at javax.naming.InitialContext.<init>(InitialContext.java:197)
         at 
javax.naming.directory.InitialDirContext.<init>(InitialDirContext.java:82)
         at org.apache.ldap.server.ServerMain.main(ServerMain.java:76)
[12:48:00] INFO [org.apache.ldap.server.jndi.ServerContextFactory] - 
Loaded 0 entries from LDIF file 
'/usr/local/src/apache/apacheds/example.ldif/apache_ds_tutorial.ldif'


There haven't been much help from the documentation as the website is 
not available at the moment.

http://directory.apache.org/subprojects/apacheds/index.html - 404 file 
not found

I'm stuck with this for now. Could someone help to get started with this?

Ultimately I'm trying to get this server to work with Jetspeed as an 
authentication server.