Monthly Archive for December, 2004

init script for HLstats

abstract

This is an init.d script for Linux (originally Red Hat and Fedora, since that’s what I’m using mostly) for controlling the HLstats statistics program for Half-Life.

The most recent version of this document can be found at http://palbrattberg.com/.
You can also get the script as text on a page of it’s own.

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Getting JIRA to run under Tomcat 5.5

Today I had to install Atlassian’s awesome JIRA on our new development machine where we run Tomcat 5.5 and JDK 5, and I bumped into a few troubles during the process.

I’m just jotting this down in the hopes it helps someone out there.

First of all, you’ll want to take a look at issue 4536 which is about this very topic. Now, I must be a bit dense, but that didn’t quite help me out all the way.

First of all, if this is a brand new install, make sure you get the drivers for your RMDBS and put that JAR into Tomcat’s /common/lib. I deployed JIRA using MySQL myself.

Next, you want to add a suitable Context to Tomcat. Mine looks like this: