UsingWW: Getting java to work

Are there any standard reasons why live.jar would not be found in a new installation?

The apache error.log file gives a list of urls it claimed it tried, and in fact, if I past the appropriate one in the address bar of my browser, it downloads the file. I think that shows we have it in the right place with permissions so that it can be accessed by the web server.

Thoughts?

John

Re: Getting java to work

by Arnold Pizer - Wednesday, 7 August 2013, 8:22 AM

Two thoughts:

(1) Are you using the same permissions and ownerships given by http://webwork.maa.org/wiki/Installation_Manual_for_2.7_on_Ubuntu_12.04#Setting_Permissions

(2) If, in a terminal window, you switch users and become the apache webserver, can you access the file?

Arnie

Re: Getting java to work

by John Jones - Wednesday, 7 August 2013, 11:12 AM

Thanks for the suggestions. The permissions were ok.

The problem is resolved now. The issue turned out to be things I didn't report above. This was an ssl server with a bad certificate. You can accept the certificate and then much of webwork will work, but not applets. Webwork tests the url for each applet, and that test was failing because of the bad certificate.

John