Starting web interface in Win Server 2008 SP2 32 bit

[blin]

Hi all, this has been an interesting journey to even attempt to get this to work. I'd appreciate any help on getting this last bit through

So, as the title suggests, I'm installing this in Win Server 08, SP2 32 bit. I have installed IIS 7 using default services selected in addition to CGI, ISAPI extensions and filters.
The omero server is started and the database was created, and I registered it to http://localhost:80/
When I go to this page in either IE or Chrome the first time per system restart, it shows the super helpful error:
"A server error occurred. Please contact the administrator."
If I then try to go to the page again, it takes a god awful long time spinning, and then pretty much sits there.
These are the settings used:

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C:\omero_dist\bin>omero config get
omero.web.application_host=http://localhost:80/
omero.web.application_server=fastcgi-tcp
omero.web.cache_backend=file//C:/windows/temp
omero.web.session_engine=django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache

I installed PostgreSQL 8.3
Java JDK SE 7u3
Ice-3.3.1-VC80
ActivePython 2.5.6.10
PIL: 1.1.7

Thanks for any troubleshooting ideas!

Brian

[atarkowska]

Hi, Could you attach logfiles from OMERO_DIR/var/log

Thanks
Ola

[blin]

Browsed through it while uploading and maybe this is the error that is important?:

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Tue, 20 Mar 2012 01:59:04 omero.util.TempFileManager ERROR    rmtree error: remove('C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Roaming\omero\tmp\omero_Administrator\3032\.lock') => [Error 32] The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process: u'C:\\Users\\Administrator\\AppData\\Roaming\\omero\\tmp\\omero_Administrator\\3032\\.lock'
Tue, 20 Mar 2012 01:59:04 omero.util.TempFileManager ERROR    rmtree error: rmdir('C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Roaming\omero\tmp\omero_Administrator\3032') => [Error 145] The directory is not empty: u'C:\\Users\\Administrator\\AppData\\Roaming\\omero\\tmp\\omero_Administrator\\3032'
Tue, 20 Mar 2012 01:59:05 root         INFO     Application Starting...


I have no idea what this even means, much less fix it

Thanks

Brian

[atarkowska]

HI Brian

This may be caused by not being able to properly delete files from the roaming directory. Can try to use TempFileManager (http://trac.openmicroscopy.org.uk/ome/w ... ileManager) to point it somewhere else.

Thanks
Ola

[blin]

Hmm, so I moved it, didn't seem to help unfortunately. The error doesn't reappear though, so there has been progress.
I tried to use the development server instead of IIS to see if that was the problem or if the underlying settings is screwed up. Apparently something is:

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C:\omero_dist\bin>omero config set omero.web.application_server development

C:\omero_dist\bin>omero config set omero.web.session_engine "django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache"

C:\omero_dist\bin>omero config set omero.web.cache_backend "file:\\C:\windows\temp\"

C:\omero_dist\bin>omero web start

Starting OMERO.web... Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "manage.py", line 43, in <module> execute_manager(settings)
  File "C:\omero_dist\lib\python\django\core\management\__init__.py", line 362, in execute_manager    utility.execute()
  File "C:\omero_dist\lib\python\django\core\management\__init__.py", line 303, in execute     self.fetch_command(subcommand).run_from_argv(self.argv)
  File "C:\omero_dist\lib\python\django\core\management\base.py", line 195, in run_from_argv    self.execute(*args, **options.__dict__)
  File "C:\omero_dist\lib\python\django\core\management\base.py", line 213, in e
xecute translation.activate('en-us')
  File "C:\omero_dist\lib\python\django\utils\translation\__init__.py", line 73, in activate return real_activate(language)
  File "C:\omero_dist\lib\python\django\utils\translation\__init__.py", line 43, in delayed_loader
    return g['real_%s' % caller](*args, **kwargs)
  File "C:\omero_dist\lib\python\django\utils\translation\trans_real.py", line 205, in activate
    _active[currentThread()] = translation(language)
  File "C:\omero_dist\lib\python\django\utils\translation\trans_real.py", line 194, in translation
    default_translation = _fetch(settings.LANGUAGE_CODE)
  File "C:\omero_dist\lib\python\django\utils\translation\trans_real.py", line 180, in _fetch
    app = import_module(appname)
  File "C:\omero_dist\lib\python\django\utils\importlib.py", line 35, in import_module
    __import__(name)
  File "C:\omero_dist\lib\python\django\contrib\admin\__init__.py", line 4, in <module>
    from django.contrib.admin.sites import AdminSite, site
  File "C:\omero_dist\lib\python\django\contrib\admin\sites.py", line 14, in <module>
    from django.views.decorators.cache import never_cache
  File "C:\omero_dist\lib\python\django\views\decorators\cache.py", line 20, in<module>
    from django.utils.cache import patch_cache_control, add_never_cache_headers
  File "C:\omero_dist\lib\python\django\utils\cache.py", line 28, in <module>
    from django.core.cache import cache
  File "C:\omero_dist\lib\python\django\core\cache\__init__.py", line 68, in <module>
    cache = get_cache(settings.CACHE_BACKEND)
  File "C:\omero_dist\lib\python\django\core\cache\__init__.py", line 60, in get_cache
    scheme, host, params = parse_backend_uri(backend_uri)
  File "C:\omero_dist\lib\python\django\core\cache\__init__.py", line 45, in parse_backend_uri
    raise InvalidCacheBackendError, "Backend URI must start with scheme://"
django.core.cache.backends.base.InvalidCacheBackendError: Backend URI must start with scheme://

C:\omero_dist\bin>

Might this shed some light on the problem?

Thanks

Brian

[atarkowska]

Hi,

Apologies for the delay. Cache backed settings should be:

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C:\omero_dist>bin\omero config set omero.web.cache_backend "file://C:/windows/temp/"


you missed : behind file

Ola

[atarkowska]

Sorry I was comparing with your first configuration setup

Referring to your last post

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C:\omero_dist\bin>omero config set omero.web.cache_backend "file:\\C:\windows\temp\"

You need to use forward slashes

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C:\omero_dist>bin\omero config set omero.web.cache_backend "file://C:/windows/temp/"

Hope that helps
Ola

[blin]

Ahhhhh, such a stupid mistake that I didn't notice. I put this on the backburner because I hit a brick wall. Works now
Thank you!
Also this reminds me of this:
http://xkcd.com/979/