Beta testers lease post your 2.1.0.BI issues here.

Today I succeeded in installing the 2.1 beta installer on a Windows 2008 server using all of the default installer settings.

I ran into a couple minor issues that were easy to overcome.

Issue 1: Installer fails to be able to connect with MySQL
When MySQL was installed, it was left without an Admin password. When running the installer, I attempted to installation using "root" as the admin username and "" as the password. This should work, but did not.

Solution: Set the admin password for MySQL in the MySQL configuration tool (or during installation). Use these credentials in the installer. Remember the UN will always be "root" and the password will be what you set it.

Issue 2: Installer fails to be able to write files
The installer attempts to write numerous files into the sub-directories within the Tomcat directory. The user type I was logged in under did not grant permissions for the installer to write to any of these directories.

Solution: I stopped the Tomcat service and manually set the privileges for all the sub-directories within Tomcat to be writable by my log-in user type. I then restarted Tomcat and re-ran the installer without issue.

That's it...

-Scott

Problems installing Pachyderm:

OS: Windows 7
1. Installed Apache Tomcat
2. Installed ImageMagic
3. Installed MySQL
4. Did not msvcr71.dll (newer version already in Windows/System32)
5. Installed Pachyderm:
-- Prerequisites have been met
-- Selected all portions of Pachyderm to install
-- Default installation locations
-- Default Pachyderm parameters
-- Define Additional Administrative Accounts (none)
-- Default Pachyderm Directory parameters
-- Error while copying MySQL JDBC

Hi-
Sounds like the same problem I note below.
Can you please try the following...
1) Re-run the MySQL config wizard
2) Select reconfigure instance
3)Select standard configuration
4) Select "Include Bin Dir"
5) Check box Modify Security Settings
6) Leave current password blank
7) Enter a password in the root password box
8) Retype password in box below.
9) Note the password
10) Save changes in the wizard.
11) Restart MySQL

Then
1) Rerun the Pachyderm installer the same way you did before.
2) Add at least on Admin account.
3) On the DB screen put "root" in for the admin DB root (bottom left) and put the password you used above in the password field in bottom right.
4) Complete installation.

Please note any further errors if any.
Thanks again, for being a tester. We really appreciate it.

Best,
Scott

Installed on a Windows 2003 server.

Installed tomcat 6.0.20
installed imageMagkic 6.5x
Already had mySQL and the java runtime installed
The msvcr71.dll was already in the system 32 so I didn't overwrite it

The installer doesn't give any indication that it is running at first and it takes a minute or two to display the install screen.

I changed a few of the default locations and entered the hostname incorrectly. So images, etc didn't load. I ran the installer again and just reentered the database portion again (I truncated the database first). After entering the correct hostname the html code still listed the incorrect hostname, so I tried running the installer again with all of the options but still had the problem. Then I started fresh and the install process went fine.

I first tried having the installer create the database but that didn't work so I created the database and database user beforehand.

I created a presentation and added some media. The system still allows you to upload unsupported media which was disappointing.

When I tried to publish for the first time I got the same error as with 2.0 (on Windows)

Application: Pachyderm2
Error: java.lang.IllegalStateException exception
Reason:
java.lang.IllegalStateException: An Exception occurred while generating the Exception page 'WOExceptionPage'. This is most likely due to an error in 'WOExceptionPage' itself or WebObjects encountered an uncaught exception while creating a Session object.

When you refresh the error goes away until the service is reset.

After publishing a presentation in the build details I noticed this
* Build Details:
* Current phase name: org.pachyderm.foundation.PXCompileZipArchive
* <org.pachyderm.foundation.PXCompilePresentation> D:\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 6.0\webapps\pachyderm_2_1\templates\video_viewer.swf (The system cannot find the file specified)

Hi-

Can you please try running the installer again after setting a root password for MySQL? We would really like to see if this resolves the issue.

All best,
Scott