[Users] Question on installation

[Itamar Heim]

On 10/30/2011 08:48 PM, Juan Hernandez wrote:
> On 10/30/2011 07:37 PM, Yair Zaslavsky wrote:
>> On 10/30/2011 06:03 PM, José Román Bilbao Castro wrote:
>>> The workshop is around the corner and I hope complete installation
>>> instructions will be soon available. Nevertheless, I am exploring ovirt
>>> for a potential client and need it working as soon as possible. The main
>>> problem is that I have followed the instructions to install from source
>>> that are present on the wiki and the installation seems to be
>>> incomplete. There are three questions:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -          Where it says:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> “Check that it runs:
>>>
>>>    $>  /usr/local/jboss-5.1.0.GA/bin/run.sh”
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Am I supposed to leave this “thing” running as long as I am using ovirt?.
>>
>> Hi Jose,
>> Yes, You need to keep it running. This "thing" is the engine-core JBoss
>> application server which has the business logic code installed on as a
>> Java EE application.
>>>
>>> -          Second and more important, I cannot access the web GUI
>>> through http://<server name>:<port>/webadmin
>>> <http://%3cserver%20name%3e:%3cport%3e/webadmin>  and I don’t know why.
>>> Mainly, I do not know the port. I suppose it is 8080, but it just shows
>>> an error page like there is nothing there. If I ignore the “webadmin”
>>> tag, It then shows the JBoss page.
>
> José, try https://<server name>:8443/webadmin
>

that's only relevant if ssl certificate was configured. by default oVirt 
development environment works without ssl to allow ease of deployment 
for developers.
ssl can be configured of course.

Jose - what error are you seeing exactly? what's in the jboss logs?
what does http://xxx/8080/api gives you?