Beginner questions

[goranjan]

Hi,

Just trying to get started on OfBiz.  First impression: not much
documentation to go on.

I was able to get the vanilla OfBiz running, but:

1) I can't get to it via a domain name.  I can get to it on the intranet,
via the intranet IP address:
http://<local-ip>:8080/ecommerce<http://%3clocal-ip%3e:8080/ecommerce>
(also
using "localhost" instead of <local-ip>).  I can get to it externally via my
router's WAN IP address:
http://<wan-ip>:8080/ecommerce<http://%3cwan-ip%3e:8080/ecommerce>.
But, I can't get to it via www.mydomain.com.

I made sure there are no firewalls blocking this.  I opened up TCP ports 80,
8080, and the https port on my router.

Can anyone help with this, please?

2) I purchased Ms.Hoffman's catalog book, but it refers to oFBiz 4.  I
downloaded oFBiz 9 (current), and in it, there is no place to change the
logo on a store (whereas it was clearly available in OfBiz 4) (!).  Why
would this be removed?   So I proceeded to overwrite the ofbizLogo.gif with
one of my own, and I can see that it replaced the ofbiz logo, but it is not
showing properly.  Is there some resolution requirements on the logo or any
other image displayed on the web page?

Thanks,
Goran

[Vivek Mishra-2]

Hi Goran,

Please start with this practice application:
http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/x/cQFk

HTH

-- Vivek Mishra

Goran Janevski wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Just trying to get started on OfBiz.  First impression: not much
> documentation to go on.
>
> I was able to get the vanilla OfBiz running, but:
>
> 1) I can't get to it via a domain name.  I can get to it on the intranet,
> via the intranet IP address:
> http://<local-ip>:8080/ecommerce<http://%3clocal-ip%3e:8080/ecommerce>
> (also
> using "localhost" instead of <local-ip>).  I can get to it externally via my
> router's WAN IP address:
> http://<wan-ip>:8080/ecommerce<http://%3cwan-ip%3e:8080/ecommerce>.
> But, I can't get to it via www.mydomain.com.
>
> I made sure there are no firewalls blocking this.  I opened up TCP ports 80,
> 8080, and the https port on my router.
>
> Can anyone help with this, please?
>
> 2) I purchased Ms.Hoffman's catalog book, but it refers to oFBiz 4.  I
> downloaded oFBiz 9 (current), and in it, there is no place to change the
> logo on a store (whereas it was clearly available in OfBiz 4) (!).  Why
> would this be removed?   So I proceeded to overwrite the ofbizLogo.gif with
> one of my own, and I can see that it replaced the ofbiz logo, but it is not
> showing properly.  Is there some resolution requirements on the logo or any
> other image displayed on the web page?
>
> Thanks,
> Goran
>
>  

[Ruth Hoffman-2]

Hi Goran:
Can't help much with the domain issue except to ask if you ever had
anything working using that domain name? Because the DNS translation is
transparent. It sounds like there may be a DNS issue.

As for the logo bit, sorry but I tried to fight that battle already. No
committer saw fit to put this back in place. IMO, it is a bug and
regression and should have been fixed a long time ago.

Thanks for pointing that out! Maybe someone will look at it again.

Regards,
Ruth
----------------------------------------------------
Find me on the web at http://www.myofbiz.com or Google keyword "myofbiz"
[hidden email]

Goran Janevski wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Just trying to get started on OfBiz.  First impression: not much
> documentation to go on.
>
> I was able to get the vanilla OfBiz running, but:
>
> 1) I can't get to it via a domain name.  I can get to it on the intranet,
> via the intranet IP address:
> http://<local-ip>:8080/ecommerce<http://%3clocal-ip%3e:8080/ecommerce>
> (also
> using "localhost" instead of <local-ip>).  I can get to it externally via my
> router's WAN IP address:
> http://<wan-ip>:8080/ecommerce<http://%3cwan-ip%3e:8080/ecommerce>.
> But, I can't get to it via www.mydomain.com.
>
> I made sure there are no firewalls blocking this.  I opened up TCP ports 80,
> 8080, and the https port on my router.
>
> Can anyone help with this, please?
>
> 2) I purchased Ms.Hoffman's catalog book, but it refers to oFBiz 4.  I
> downloaded oFBiz 9 (current), and in it, there is no place to change the
> logo on a store (whereas it was clearly available in OfBiz 4) (!).  Why
> would this be removed?   So I proceeded to overwrite the ofbizLogo.gif with
> one of my own, and I can see that it replaced the ofbiz logo, but it is not
> showing properly.  Is there some resolution requirements on the logo or any
> other image displayed on the web page?
>
> Thanks,
> Goran
>
>  

[Ruth Hoffman-2]

Hi Vivek:
With all due respect, why?
You don't need to be a programmer/developer to use OFBiz.

Regards,
Ruth
----------------------------------------------------
Find me on the web at http://www.myofbiz.com or Google keyword "myofbiz"
[hidden email]


Vivek Mishra wrote:

> Hi Goran,
>
> Please start with this practice application:
> http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/x/cQFk
>
> HTH
>
> -- Vivek Mishra
>
> Goran Janevski wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Just trying to get started on OfBiz.  First impression: not much
>> documentation to go on.
>>
>> I was able to get the vanilla OfBiz running, but:
>>
>> 1) I can't get to it via a domain name.  I can get to it on the
>> intranet,
>> via the intranet IP address:
>> http://<local-ip>:8080/ecommerce<http://%3clocal-ip%3e:8080/ecommerce>
>> (also
>> using "localhost" instead of <local-ip>).  I can get to it externally
>> via my
>> router's WAN IP address:
>> http://<wan-ip>:8080/ecommerce<http://%3cwan-ip%3e:8080/ecommerce>.
>> But, I can't get to it via www.mydomain.com.
>>
>> I made sure there are no firewalls blocking this.  I opened up TCP
>> ports 80,
>> 8080, and the https port on my router.
>>
>> Can anyone help with this, please?
>>
>> 2) I purchased Ms.Hoffman's catalog book, but it refers to oFBiz 4.  I
>> downloaded oFBiz 9 (current), and in it, there is no place to change the
>> logo on a store (whereas it was clearly available in OfBiz 4) (!).  Why
>> would this be removed?   So I proceeded to overwrite the
>> ofbizLogo.gif with
>> one of my own, and I can see that it replaced the ofbiz logo, but it
>> is not
>> showing properly.  Is there some resolution requirements on the logo
>> or any
>> other image displayed on the web page?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Goran
>>
>>  
>

[goranjan]

Vivek,

Thanks for your responses.

I will do the beginner's tutorial, just to see what's underneath the hood of
OFBiz.  But I believe Ms.Hoffman is right on this, I shouldn't have to.

Another little snag:  the Framework diagram PDFs and videos are not
available at
http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBTECH/Framework+Introduction+Videos+and+Diagrams

Could someone make those available somewhere, please?

Thanks,
Goran

On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 11:32 AM, Vivek Mishra <[hidden email]
> wrote:

> Hi Goran,
>
> Please start with this practice application:
> http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/x/cQFk
>
> HTH
>
> -- Vivek Mishra
>
> Goran Janevski wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Just trying to get started on OfBiz.  First impression: not much
>> documentation to go on.
>>
>> I was able to get the vanilla OfBiz running, but:
>>
>> 1) I can't get to it via a domain name.  I can get to it on the intranet,
>> via the intranet IP address:
>> http://<local-ip>:8080/ecommerce<http://%3clocal-ip%3e:8080/ecommerce>
>>
>> (also
>> using "localhost" instead of <local-ip>).  I can get to it externally via
>> my
>> router's WAN IP address:
>> http://<wan-ip>:8080/ecommerce<http://%3cwan-ip%3e:8080/ecommerce>.
>>
>> But, I can't get to it via www.mydomain.com.
>>
>> I made sure there are no firewalls blocking this.  I opened up TCP ports
>> 80,
>> 8080, and the https port on my router.
>>
>> Can anyone help with this, please?
>>
>> 2) I purchased Ms.Hoffman's catalog book, but it refers to oFBiz 4.  I
>> downloaded oFBiz 9 (current), and in it, there is no place to change the
>> logo on a store (whereas it was clearly available in OfBiz 4) (!).  Why
>> would this be removed?   So I proceeded to overwrite the ofbizLogo.gif
>> with
>> one of my own, and I can see that it replaced the ofbiz logo, but it is
>> not
>> showing properly.  Is there some resolution requirements on the logo or
>> any
>> other image displayed on the web page?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Goran
>>
>>
>>
>

[Vivek Mishra-2]

Ruth, Goran,

I do agree with you but my main concern was to answer Goran's this line
which gives me an impression that he is a developer/programmer.

Just trying to get started on OfBiz.  First impression: not much
documentation to go on.

Not much but enough documentation to at least get start on this
including a beginner level practice application to handling business
processes.

Thanks!
-- Vivek Mishra

Goran Janevski wrote:

> Vivek,
>
> Thanks for your responses.
>
> I will do the beginner's tutorial, just to see what's underneath the hood of
> OFBiz.  But I believe Ms.Hoffman is right on this, I shouldn't have to.
>
> Another little snag:  the Framework diagram PDFs and videos are not
> available at
> http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBTECH/Framework+Introduction+Videos+and+Diagrams
>
> Could someone make those available somewhere, please?
>
> Thanks,
> Goran
>
> On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 11:32 AM, Vivek Mishra <[hidden email]
>  
>> wrote:
>>    
>
>  
>> Hi Goran,
>>
>> Please start with this practice application:
>> http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/x/cQFk
>>
>> HTH
>>
>> -- Vivek Mishra
>>
>> Goran Janevski wrote:
>>
>>    
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Just trying to get started on OfBiz.  First impression: not much
>>> documentation to go on.
>>>
>>> I was able to get the vanilla OfBiz running, but:
>>>
>>> 1) I can't get to it via a domain name.  I can get to it on the intranet,
>>> via the intranet IP address:
>>> http://<local-ip>:8080/ecommerce<http://%3clocal-ip%3e:8080/ecommerce>
>>>
>>> (also
>>> using "localhost" instead of <local-ip>).  I can get to it externally via
>>> my
>>> router's WAN IP address:
>>> http://<wan-ip>:8080/ecommerce<http://%3cwan-ip%3e:8080/ecommerce>.
>>>
>>> But, I can't get to it via www.mydomain.com.
>>>
>>> I made sure there are no firewalls blocking this.  I opened up TCP ports
>>> 80,
>>> 8080, and the https port on my router.
>>>
>>> Can anyone help with this, please?
>>>
>>> 2) I purchased Ms.Hoffman's catalog book, but it refers to oFBiz 4.  I
>>> downloaded oFBiz 9 (current), and in it, there is no place to change the
>>> logo on a store (whereas it was clearly available in OfBiz 4) (!).  Why
>>> would this be removed?   So I proceeded to overwrite the ofbizLogo.gif
>>> with
>>> one of my own, and I can see that it replaced the ofbiz logo, but it is
>>> not
>>> showing properly.  Is there some resolution requirements on the logo or
>>> any
>>> other image displayed on the web page?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Goran
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>      
>
>  

[Jacopo Cappellato-4]

Hi Goran,

On Feb 18, 2010, at 5:19 PM, Goran Janevski wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Just trying to get started on OfBiz.  First impression: not much
> documentation to go on.
>
> I was able to get the vanilla OfBiz running, but:
>
> 1) I can't get to it via a domain name.  I can get to it on the intranet,
> via the intranet IP address:
> http://<local-ip>:8080/ecommerce<http://%3clocal-ip%3e:8080/ecommerce>
> (also
> using "localhost" instead of <local-ip>).  I can get to it externally via my
> router's WAN IP address:
> http://<wan-ip>:8080/ecommerce<http://%3cwan-ip%3e:8080/ecommerce>.
> But, I can't get to it via www.mydomain.com.

did you try with:

http://www.mydomain.com:8080/ecommerce/control/main

?

Kind regards,

Jacopo

>
> I made sure there are no firewalls blocking this.  I opened up TCP ports 80,
> 8080, and the https port on my router.
>
> Can anyone help with this, please?
>
> 2) I purchased Ms.Hoffman's catalog book, but it refers to oFBiz 4.  I
> downloaded oFBiz 9 (current), and in it, there is no place to change the
> logo on a store (whereas it was clearly available in OfBiz 4) (!).  Why
> would this be removed?   So I proceeded to overwrite the ofbizLogo.gif with
> one of my own, and I can see that it replaced the ofbiz logo, but it is not
> showing properly.  Is there some resolution requirements on the logo or any
> other image displayed on the web page?
>
> Thanks,
> Goran

[goranjan]

Jacopo,

First of all, thank you very much, it worked! (and I am officially
embarrassed for not thinking to try it, although I did try other variations
of it).

But more importantly, I have to say: *seriously?*  Surely I can't expect my
customers to type that???  The same way that I don't have to type
www.amazon.com:8080/ecommerce/control/main.

In other words, how do I simplify the url so that my customers only have to
type www.mydomain.com?

Thanks very much in advance,
Goran
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 12:08 PM, Jacopo Cappellato <
[hidden email]> wrote:

> Hi Goran,
>
> On Feb 18, 2010, at 5:19 PM, Goran Janevski wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Just trying to get started on OfBiz.  First impression: not much
> > documentation to go on.
> >
> > I was able to get the vanilla OfBiz running, but:
> >
> > 1) I can't get to it via a domain name.  I can get to it on the intranet,
> > via the intranet IP address:
> > http://<local-ip>:8080/ecommerce<http://%3clocal-ip%3e:8080/ecommerce>
> > (also
> > using "localhost" instead of <local-ip>).  I can get to it externally via
> my
> > router's WAN IP address:
> > http://<wan-ip>:8080/ecommerce<http://%3cwan-ip%3e:8080/ecommerce>.
> > But, I can't get to it via www.mydomain.com.
>
>
> did you try with:
>
> http://www.mydomain.com:8080/ecommerce/control/main
>
> ?
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Jacopo
>
> >
> > I made sure there are no firewalls blocking this.  I opened up TCP ports
> 80,
> > 8080, and the https port on my router.
> >
> > Can anyone help with this, please?
> >
> > 2) I purchased Ms.Hoffman's catalog book, but it refers to oFBiz 4.  I
> > downloaded oFBiz 9 (current), and in it, there is no place to change the
> > logo on a store (whereas it was clearly available in OfBiz 4) (!).  Why
> > would this be removed?   So I proceeded to overwrite the ofbizLogo.gif
> with
> > one of my own, and I can see that it replaced the ofbiz logo, but it is
> not
> > showing properly.  Is there some resolution requirements on the logo or
> any
> > other image displayed on the web page?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Goran
>
>

[goranjan]

Actually, now that you helped me figure this out, I can probably do some
kind of DNS mapping through GoDaddy to get down to www.mydomain.com.

When I figure it out, I will report back.

Best Regards,
Goran

On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 11:19 AM, Goran Janevski <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Just trying to get started on OfBiz.  First impression: not much
> documentation to go on.
>
> I was able to get the vanilla OfBiz running, but:
>
> 1) I can't get to it via a domain name.  I can get to it on the intranet,
> via the intranet IP address: http://<local-ip>:8080/ecommerce<http://%3clocal-ip%3e:8080/ecommerce> (also
> using "localhost" instead of <local-ip>).  I can get to it externally via my
> router's WAN IP address: http://<wan-ip>:8080/ecommerce<http://%3cwan-ip%3e:8080/ecommerce>.
> But, I can't get to it via www.mydomain.com.
>
> I made sure there are no firewalls blocking this.  I opened up TCP ports
> 80, 8080, and the https port on my router.
>
> Can anyone help with this, please?
>
> 2) I purchased Ms.Hoffman's catalog book, but it refers to oFBiz 4.  I
> downloaded oFBiz 9 (current), and in it, there is no place to change the
> logo on a store (whereas it was clearly available in OfBiz 4) (!).  Why
> would this be removed?   So I proceeded to overwrite the ofbizLogo.gif with
> one of my own, and I can see that it replaced the ofbiz logo, but it is not
> showing properly.  Is there some resolution requirements on the logo or any
> other image displayed on the web page?
>
> Thanks,
> Goran
>

[Ruth Hoffman-2]

Hi Goran:
You don't need to do that. You can go to the ofbiz-component.xml file
for the ecommerce component (~specialpurpose/ecommerce) and change the
mount-point entry to be mount-point="/".

Hope that helps.
Ruth

Goran Janevski wrote:

> Actually, now that you helped me figure this out, I can probably do some
> kind of DNS mapping through GoDaddy to get down to www.mydomain.com.
>
> When I figure it out, I will report back.
>
> Best Regards,
> Goran
>
> On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 11:19 AM, Goran Janevski <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
>  
>> Hi,
>>
>> Just trying to get started on OfBiz.  First impression: not much
>> documentation to go on.
>>
>> I was able to get the vanilla OfBiz running, but:
>>
>> 1) I can't get to it via a domain name.  I can get to it on the intranet,
>> via the intranet IP address: http://<local-ip>:8080/ecommerce<http://%3clocal-ip%3e:8080/ecommerce> (also
>> using "localhost" instead of <local-ip>).  I can get to it externally via my
>> router's WAN IP address: http://<wan-ip>:8080/ecommerce<http://%3cwan-ip%3e:8080/ecommerce>.
>> But, I can't get to it via www.mydomain.com.
>>
>> I made sure there are no firewalls blocking this.  I opened up TCP ports
>> 80, 8080, and the https port on my router.
>>
>> Can anyone help with this, please?
>>
>> 2) I purchased Ms.Hoffman's catalog book, but it refers to oFBiz 4.  I
>> downloaded oFBiz 9 (current), and in it, there is no place to change the
>> logo on a store (whereas it was clearly available in OfBiz 4) (!).  Why
>> would this be removed?   So I proceeded to overwrite the ofbizLogo.gif with
>> one of my own, and I can see that it replaced the ofbiz logo, but it is not
>> showing properly.  Is there some resolution requirements on the logo or any
>> other image displayed on the web page?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Goran
>>
>>    
>
>  

[Scott Gray-2]

You can also modify framework/webapp/config/url.properties to set your http port to 80 and the https port to 443 so that users do not need to specify the port after the host name.

Regards
Scott

HotWax Media
http://www.hotwaxmedia.com

On 18/02/2010, at 3:30 PM, Ruth Hoffman wrote:

> Hi Goran:
> You don't need to do that. You can go to the ofbiz-component.xml file for the ecommerce component (~specialpurpose/ecommerce) and change the mount-point entry to be mount-point="/".
>
> Hope that helps.
> Ruth
>
> Goran Janevski wrote:
>> Actually, now that you helped me figure this out, I can probably do some
>> kind of DNS mapping through GoDaddy to get down to www.mydomain.com.
>>
>> When I figure it out, I will report back.
>>
>> Best Regards,
>> Goran
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 11:19 AM, Goran Janevski <[hidden email]> wrote:
>>
>>  
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Just trying to get started on OfBiz.  First impression: not much
>>> documentation to go on.
>>>
>>> I was able to get the vanilla OfBiz running, but:
>>>
>>> 1) I can't get to it via a domain name.  I can get to it on the intranet,
>>> via the intranet IP address: http://<local-ip>:8080/ecommerce<http://%3clocal-ip%3e:8080/ecommerce> (also
>>> using "localhost" instead of <local-ip>).  I can get to it externally via my
>>> router's WAN IP address: http://<wan-ip>:8080/ecommerce<http://%3cwan-ip%3e:8080/ecommerce>.
>>> But, I can't get to it via www.mydomain.com.
>>>
>>> I made sure there are no firewalls blocking this.  I opened up TCP ports
>>> 80, 8080, and the https port on my router.
>>>
>>> Can anyone help with this, please?
>>>
>>> 2) I purchased Ms.Hoffman's catalog book, but it refers to oFBiz 4.  I
>>> downloaded oFBiz 9 (current), and in it, there is no place to change the
>>> logo on a store (whereas it was clearly available in OfBiz 4) (!).  Why
>>> would this be removed?   So I proceeded to overwrite the ofbizLogo.gif with
>>> one of my own, and I can see that it replaced the ofbiz logo, but it is not
>>> showing properly.  Is there some resolution requirements on the logo or any
>>> other image displayed on the web page?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Goran
>>>
>>>    
>>
>>  

[goranjan]

Ruth,

That worked.

Thanks very much,
Goran

On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 5:30 PM, Ruth Hoffman <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Hi Goran:
> You don't need to do that. You can go to the ofbiz-component.xml file for
> the ecommerce component (~specialpurpose/ecommerce) and change the
> mount-point entry to be mount-point="/".
>
> Hope that helps.
> Ruth
>
> Goran Janevski wrote:
>
>> Actually, now that you helped me figure this out, I can probably do some
>> kind of DNS mapping through GoDaddy to get down to www.mydomain.com.
>>
>> When I figure it out, I will report back.
>>
>> Best Regards,
>> Goran
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 11:19 AM, Goran Janevski <[hidden email]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Just trying to get started on OfBiz.  First impression: not much
>>> documentation to go on.
>>>
>>> I was able to get the vanilla OfBiz running, but:
>>>
>>> 1) I can't get to it via a domain name.  I can get to it on the intranet,
>>> via the intranet IP address: http://<local-ip>:8080/ecommerce<http://%3clocal-ip%3e:8080/ecommerce>
>>> (also
>>>
>>> using "localhost" instead of <local-ip>).  I can get to it externally via
>>> my
>>> router's WAN IP address: http://<wan-ip>:8080/ecommerce<http://
>>> %3cwan-ip%3e:8080/ecommerce>.
>>>
>>> But, I can't get to it via www.mydomain.com.
>>>
>>> I made sure there are no firewalls blocking this.  I opened up TCP ports
>>> 80, 8080, and the https port on my router.
>>>
>>> Can anyone help with this, please?
>>>
>>> 2) I purchased Ms.Hoffman's catalog book, but it refers to oFBiz 4.  I
>>> downloaded oFBiz 9 (current), and in it, there is no place to change the
>>> logo on a store (whereas it was clearly available in OfBiz 4) (!).  Why
>>> would this be removed?   So I proceeded to overwrite the ofbizLogo.gif
>>> with
>>> one of my own, and I can see that it replaced the ofbiz logo, but it is
>>> not
>>> showing properly.  Is there some resolution requirements on the logo or
>>> any
>>> other image displayed on the web page?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Goran
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>

[David E. Jones-2]

Goran,

Your comments are interesting. Based on them I was wondering if you could help out the project by answering a couple of questions:

1. which documents did you look at as you got started?
2. how did you go about finding documentation?

-David



On Feb 18, 2010, at 4:38 PM, Goran Janevski wrote:

> Ruth,
>
> That worked.
>
> Thanks very much,
> Goran
>
> On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 5:30 PM, Ruth Hoffman <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
>> Hi Goran:
>> You don't need to do that. You can go to the ofbiz-component.xml file for
>> the ecommerce component (~specialpurpose/ecommerce) and change the
>> mount-point entry to be mount-point="/".
>>
>> Hope that helps.
>> Ruth
>>
>> Goran Janevski wrote:
>>
>>> Actually, now that you helped me figure this out, I can probably do some
>>> kind of DNS mapping through GoDaddy to get down to www.mydomain.com.
>>>
>>> When I figure it out, I will report back.
>>>
>>> Best Regards,
>>> Goran
>>>
>>> On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 11:19 AM, Goran Janevski <[hidden email]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Just trying to get started on OfBiz.  First impression: not much
>>>> documentation to go on.
>>>>
>>>> I was able to get the vanilla OfBiz running, but:
>>>>
>>>> 1) I can't get to it via a domain name.  I can get to it on the intranet,
>>>> via the intranet IP address: http://<local-ip>:8080/ecommerce<http://%3clocal-ip%3e:8080/ecommerce>
>>>> (also
>>>>
>>>> using "localhost" instead of <local-ip>).  I can get to it externally via
>>>> my
>>>> router's WAN IP address: http://<wan-ip>:8080/ecommerce<http://
>>>> %3cwan-ip%3e:8080/ecommerce>.
>>>>
>>>> But, I can't get to it via www.mydomain.com.
>>>>
>>>> I made sure there are no firewalls blocking this.  I opened up TCP ports
>>>> 80, 8080, and the https port on my router.
>>>>
>>>> Can anyone help with this, please?
>>>>
>>>> 2) I purchased Ms.Hoffman's catalog book, but it refers to oFBiz 4.  I
>>>> downloaded oFBiz 9 (current), and in it, there is no place to change the
>>>> logo on a store (whereas it was clearly available in OfBiz 4) (!).  Why
>>>> would this be removed?   So I proceeded to overwrite the ofbizLogo.gif
>>>> with
>>>> one of my own, and I can see that it replaced the ofbiz logo, but it is
>>>> not
>>>> showing properly.  Is there some resolution requirements on the logo or
>>>> any
>>>> other image displayed on the web page?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Goran
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>

[goranjan]

Scott,

That actually did not work.  After I modify the port in url.properties and
setting it to 80, I can not access the web site with the domain only.  I can
still access the web site using port 8080, but not without it.  I restarted
the server after making the modification.

I also tried another random port (8088), with the same result.

Which leads me to believe that changing the port in url.properties does not
impact the port being used, *unless: *do I need to recompile/rebuild the
whole thing in order for the port change to take effect?

Or, is there some other place that I also need to change the port from 8080
to 80.

Sorry for being such a newbie.

Thanks again,
Goran

On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 5:38 PM, Scott Gray <[hidden email]>wrote:

> You can also modify framework/webapp/config/url.properties to set your http
> port to 80 and the https port to 443 so that users do not need to specify
> the port after the host name.
>
> Regards
> Scott
>
> HotWax Media
> http://www.hotwaxmedia.com
>
> On 18/02/2010, at 3:30 PM, Ruth Hoffman wrote:
>
> > Hi Goran:
> > You don't need to do that. You can go to the ofbiz-component.xml file for
> the ecommerce component (~specialpurpose/ecommerce) and change the
> mount-point entry to be mount-point="/".
> >
> > Hope that helps.
> > Ruth
> >
> > Goran Janevski wrote:
> >> Actually, now that you helped me figure this out, I can probably do some
> >> kind of DNS mapping through GoDaddy to get down to www.mydomain.com.
> >>
> >> When I figure it out, I will report back.
> >> >> Best Regards,
> >> Goran
> >>
> >> On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 11:19 AM, Goran Janevski <[hidden email]>
> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> Just trying to get started on OfBiz.  First impression: not much
> >>> documentation to go on.
> >>>
> >>> I was able to get the vanilla OfBiz running, but:
> >>>
> >>> 1) I can't get to it via a domain name.  I can get to it on the
> intranet,
> >>> via the intranet IP address: http://<local-ip>:8080/ecommerce<http://%3clocal-ip%3e:8080/ecommerce>
> (also
> >>> using "localhost" instead of <local-ip>).  I can get to it externally
> via my
> >>> router's WAN IP address: http://<wan-ip>:8080/ecommerce<http://
> %3cwan-ip%3e:8080/ecommerce>.
> >>> But, I can't get to it via www.mydomain.com.
> >>>
> >>> I made sure there are no firewalls blocking this.  I opened up TCP
> ports
> >>> 80, 8080, and the https port on my router.
> >>>
> >>> Can anyone help with this, please?
> >>>
> >>> 2) I purchased Ms.Hoffman's catalog book, but it refers to oFBiz 4.  I
> >>> downloaded oFBiz 9 (current), and in it, there is no place to change
> the
> >>> logo on a store (whereas it was clearly available in OfBiz 4) (!).  Why
> >>> would this be removed?   So I proceeded to overwrite the ofbizLogo.gif
> with
> >>> one of my own, and I can see that it replaced the ofbiz logo, but it is
> not
> >>> showing properly.  Is there some resolution requirements on the logo or
> any
> >>> other image displayed on the web page?
> >>>
> >>> Thanks,
> >>> Goran
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>
>
>

[Scott Gray-2]

Sorry I missed the rest of the settings:
framework/base/config/ofbiz-containers.xml
Find the container named catalina-container and within that the following two property elements: http-connector and https-connector and change the port properties to 80 and 443 respectively.

You'll find some other useful information in this document: http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBTECH/Apache+OFBiz+Technical+Production+Setup+Guide

Regards
Scott

On 18/02/2010, at 4:54 PM, Goran Janevski wrote:

> Scott,
>
> That actually did not work.  After I modify the port in url.properties and
> setting it to 80, I can not access the web site with the domain only.  I can
> still access the web site using port 8080, but not without it.  I restarted
> the server after making the modification.
>
> I also tried another random port (8088), with the same result.
>
> Which leads me to believe that changing the port in url.properties does not
> impact the port being used, *unless: *do I need to recompile/rebuild the
> whole thing in order for the port change to take effect?
>
> Or, is there some other place that I also need to change the port from 8080
> to 80.
>
> Sorry for being such a newbie.
>
> Thanks again,
> Goran
>
> On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 5:38 PM, Scott Gray <[hidden email]>wrote:
>
>> You can also modify framework/webapp/config/url.properties to set your http
>> port to 80 and the https port to 443 so that users do not need to specify
>> the port after the host name.
>>
>> Regards
>> Scott
>>
>> HotWax Media
>> http://www.hotwaxmedia.com
>>
>> On 18/02/2010, at 3:30 PM, Ruth Hoffman wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Goran:
>>> You don't need to do that. You can go to the ofbiz-component.xml file for
>> the ecommerce component (~specialpurpose/ecommerce) and change the
>> mount-point entry to be mount-point="/".
>>>
>>> Hope that helps.
>>> Ruth
>>>
>>> Goran Janevski wrote:
>>>> Actually, now that you helped me figure this out, I can probably do some
>>>> kind of DNS mapping through GoDaddy to get down to www.mydomain.com.
>>>>
>>>> When I figure it out, I will report back.
>>>>>> Best Regards,
>>>> Goran
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 11:19 AM, Goran Janevski <[hidden email]>
>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> Just trying to get started on OfBiz.  First impression: not much
>>>>> documentation to go on.
>>>>>
>>>>> I was able to get the vanilla OfBiz running, but:
>>>>>
>>>>> 1) I can't get to it via a domain name.  I can get to it on the
>> intranet,
>>>>> via the intranet IP address: http://<local-ip>:8080/ecommerce<http://%3clocal-ip%3e:8080/ecommerce>
>> (also
>>>>> using "localhost" instead of <local-ip>).  I can get to it externally
>> via my
>>>>> router's WAN IP address: http://<wan-ip>:8080/ecommerce<http://
>> %3cwan-ip%3e:8080/ecommerce>.
>>>>> But, I can't get to it via www.mydomain.com.
>>>>>
>>>>> I made sure there are no firewalls blocking this.  I opened up TCP
>> ports
>>>>> 80, 8080, and the https port on my router.
>>>>>
>>>>> Can anyone help with this, please?
>>>>>
>>>>> 2) I purchased Ms.Hoffman's catalog book, but it refers to oFBiz 4.  I
>>>>> downloaded oFBiz 9 (current), and in it, there is no place to change
>> the
>>>>> logo on a store (whereas it was clearly available in OfBiz 4) (!).  Why
>>>>> would this be removed?   So I proceeded to overwrite the ofbizLogo.gif
>> with
>>>>> one of my own, and I can see that it replaced the ofbiz logo, but it is
>> not
>>>>> showing properly.  Is there some resolution requirements on the logo or
>> any
>>>>> other image displayed on the web page?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Goran
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>
>>

[goranjan]

David,

I am happy to help out the project.  Let me first say that the comment I
made on lack of documentation should have been qualified to say "relative to
the OsCommerce project", because that is the other open source solution
which I considered.  So my apologies.  And it's probably not a fair
comparison;  OsCommerce has been around since 2000 I think.

 But of course OFBiz is so much more than just an eCommerce store, which is
why I want to use it.

I actually started by looking at what books are available [I generally
prefer books, because all the info is in one place]. I went to ofbiz.org,
and  I found the Apache OFBiz Development: The Beginner's Tutorial
.<http://www.packtpub.com/apache-ofbiz-development-beginners-tutorial/book>
", but that is for developers [I may still end up going through that one].

I also saw Ruth's two books, both the catalog book, may also buy the other
one.

But that is it.  That is the grand sum total of books on OFBiz.

Then I looked at the "Apache OFBiz Getting Started " on ofbiz.org.

In there, I could see several items that I would find useful: End-User
Documentation, Technical Training Videos, Configuration Documents,
specifically the Apache OFBiz Business Setup Guide (for users), etc. [but
the link to the technical training videos is broken, and there isn't even a
FAQ - it came back empty].

Before all that, I just wanted to see my basic web site, with my domain
name, the name of the business and the logo on it, because it was so easy to
get the demo store up and running, and customize the theme and company name.
  However getting rid of ports and the other stuff from the domain name,
would have been hard without people's help on this mailing list.  Is that
documented anywhere?

Now if I am going the wrong way about reading the documentation and not
looking in the right places, please let me know.

But in general I would say that if OFBiz is to be successful, there needs to
be more business-owner oriented documentation.  And as I go along with this
process, I will take notes, and be happy to pass them on to you in the end,
with suggestions what would have worked for me.

Regards,
Goran

On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 6:45 PM, David E Jones <[hidden email]> wrote:

>
> Goran,
>
> Your comments are interesting. Based on them I was wondering if you could
> help out the project by answering a couple of questions:
>
> 1. which documents did you look at as you got started?
> 2. how did you go about finding documentation?
>
> -David
>
>
>
> On Feb 18, 2010, at 4:38 PM, Goran Janevski wrote:
>
> > Ruth,
> >
> > That worked.
> >
> > Thanks very much,
> > Goran
> >
> > On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 5:30 PM, Ruth Hoffman <[hidden email]>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Goran:
> >> You don't need to do that. You can go to the ofbiz-component.xml file
> for
> >> the ecommerce component (~specialpurpose/ecommerce) and change the
> >> mount-point entry to be mount-point="/".
> >>
> >> Hope that helps.
> >> Ruth
> >>
> >> Goran Janevski wrote:
> >>
> >>> Actually, now that you helped me figure this out, I can probably do
> some
> >>> kind of DNS mapping through GoDaddy to get down to www.mydomain.com.
> >>>
> >>> When I figure it out, I will report back.
> >>>
> >>> Best Regards,
> >>> Goran
> >>>
> >>> On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 11:19 AM, Goran Janevski <[hidden email]>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> Hi,
> >>>>
> >>>> Just trying to get started on OfBiz.  First impression: not much
> >>>> documentation to go on.
> >>>>
> >>>> I was able to get the vanilla OfBiz running, but:
> >>>>
> >>>> 1) I can't get to it via a domain name.  I can get to it on the
> intranet,
> >>>> via the intranet IP address: http://<local-ip>:8080/ecommerce<http://
> %3clocal-ip%3e:8080/ecommerce>
> >>>> (also
> >>>>
> >>>> using "localhost" instead of <local-ip>).  I can get to it externally
> via
> >>>> my
> >>>> router's WAN IP address: http://<wan-ip>:8080/ecommerce<http://
> >>>> %3cwan-ip%3e:8080/ecommerce>.
> >>>>
> >>>> But, I can't get to it via www.mydomain.com.
> >>>>
> >>>> I made sure there are no firewalls blocking this.  I opened up TCP
> ports
> >>>> 80, 8080, and the https port on my router.
> >>>>
> >>>> Can anyone help with this, please?
> >>>>
> >>>> 2) I purchased Ms.Hoffman's catalog book, but it refers to oFBiz 4.  I
> >>>> downloaded oFBiz 9 (current), and in it, there is no place to change
> the
> >>>> logo on a store (whereas it was clearly available in OfBiz 4) (!).
>  Why
> >>>> would this be removed?   So I proceeded to overwrite the ofbizLogo.gif
> >>>> with
> >>>> one of my own, and I can see that it replaced the ofbiz logo, but it
> is
> >>>> not
> >>>> showing properly.  Is there some resolution requirements on the logo
> or
> >>>> any
> >>>> other image displayed on the web page?
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks,
> >>>> Goran
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
>
>

[goranjan]

Yey! It worked.

Now if I can just figure out why my gif picture is not showing up properly
as the ofbizLogo.gif, I will have reached my first milestone.

I will read the technical production setup guide, and a couple of others
before I ask more questions.

Thanks very much,
Goran

On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 7:06 PM, Scott Gray <[hidden email]>wrote:

> Sorry I missed the rest of the settings:
> framework/base/config/ofbiz-containers.xml
> Find the container named catalina-container and within that the following
> two property elements: http-connector and https-connector and change the
> port properties to 80 and 443 respectively.
>
> You'll find some other useful information in this document:
> http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBTECH/Apache+OFBiz+Technical+Production+Setup+Guide
>
> Regards
> Scott
>
> On 18/02/2010, at 4:54 PM, Goran Janevski wrote:
>
> > Scott,
> >
> > That actually did not work.  After I modify the port in url.properties
> and
> > setting it to 80, I can not access the web site with the domain only.  I
> can
> > still access the web site using port 8080, but not without it.  I
> restarted
> > the server after making the modification.
> >
> > I also tried another random port (8088), with the same result.
> >
> > Which leads me to believe that changing the port in url.properties does
> not
> > impact the port being used, *unless: *do I need to recompile/rebuild the
> > whole thing in order for the port change to take effect?
> >
> > Or, is there some other place that I also need to change the port from
> 8080
> > to 80.
> >
> > Sorry for being such a newbie.
> >
> > Thanks again,
> > Goran
> >
> > On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 5:38 PM, Scott Gray <[hidden email]
> >wrote:
> >
> >> You can also modify framework/webapp/config/url.properties to set your
> http
> >> port to 80 and the https port to 443 so that users do not need to
> specify
> >> the port after the host name.
> >>
> >> Regards
> >> Scott
> >>
> >> HotWax Media
> >> http://www.hotwaxmedia.com
> >>
> >> On 18/02/2010, at 3:30 PM, Ruth Hoffman wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi Goran:
> >>> You don't need to do that. You can go to the ofbiz-component.xml file
> for
> >> the ecommerce component (~specialpurpose/ecommerce) and change the
> >> mount-point entry to be mount-point="/".
> >>>
> >>> Hope that helps.
> >>> Ruth
> >>>
> >>> Goran Janevski wrote:
> >>>> Actually, now that you helped me figure this out, I can probably do
> some
> >>>> kind of DNS mapping through GoDaddy to get down to www.mydomain.com.
> >>>>
> >>>> When I figure it out, I will report back.
> >>>>>> Best Regards,
> >>>> Goran
> >>>>
> >>>> On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 11:19 AM, Goran Janevski <[hidden email]>
> >> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>> Hi,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Just trying to get started on OfBiz.  First impression: not much
> >>>>> documentation to go on.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I was able to get the vanilla OfBiz running, but:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> 1) I can't get to it via a domain name.  I can get to it on the
> >> intranet,
> >>>>> via the intranet IP address: http://
> <local-ip>:8080/ecommerce<http://%3clocal-ip%3e:8080/ecommerce>
> >> (also
> >>>>> using "localhost" instead of <local-ip>).  I can get to it externally
> >> via my
> >>>>> router's WAN IP address: http://<wan-ip>:8080/ecommerce<http://
> >> %3cwan-ip%3e:8080/ecommerce>.
> >>>>> But, I can't get to it via www.mydomain.com.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I made sure there are no firewalls blocking this.  I opened up TCP
> >> ports
> >>>>> 80, 8080, and the https port on my router.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Can anyone help with this, please?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> 2) I purchased Ms.Hoffman's catalog book, but it refers to oFBiz 4.
>  I
> >>>>> downloaded oFBiz 9 (current), and in it, there is no place to change
> >> the
> >>>>> logo on a store (whereas it was clearly available in OfBiz 4) (!).
>  Why
> >>>>> would this be removed?   So I proceeded to overwrite the
> ofbizLogo.gif
> >> with
> >>>>> one of my own, and I can see that it replaced the ofbiz logo, but it
> is
> >> not
> >>>>> showing properly.  Is there some resolution requirements on the logo
> or
> >> any
> >>>>> other image displayed on the web page?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Thanks,
> >>>>> Goran
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>
> >>
>
>

[Scott Gray-2]

The image is most likely sized via the css file for the page: framework/images/webapp/images/ecommain.css
Here you'll have to get your hands dirty I'm afraid, but it's pretty much unavoidable if you want your store to look in any way different from the demo store.

Regards
Scott

On 18/02/2010, at 5:31 PM, Goran Janevski wrote:

> Yey! It worked.
>
> Now if I can just figure out why my gif picture is not showing up properly
> as the ofbizLogo.gif, I will have reached my first milestone.
>
> I will read the technical production setup guide, and a couple of others
> before I ask more questions.
>
> Thanks very much,
> Goran
>
> On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 7:06 PM, Scott Gray <[hidden email]>wrote:
>
>> Sorry I missed the rest of the settings:
>> framework/base/config/ofbiz-containers.xml
>> Find the container named catalina-container and within that the following
>> two property elements: http-connector and https-connector and change the
>> port properties to 80 and 443 respectively.
>>
>> You'll find some other useful information in this document:
>> http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBTECH/Apache+OFBiz+Technical+Production+Setup+Guide
>>
>> Regards
>> Scott
>>
>> On 18/02/2010, at 4:54 PM, Goran Janevski wrote:
>>
>>> Scott,
>>>
>>> That actually did not work.  After I modify the port in url.properties
>> and
>>> setting it to 80, I can not access the web site with the domain only.  I
>> can
>>> still access the web site using port 8080, but not without it.  I
>> restarted
>>> the server after making the modification.
>>>
>>> I also tried another random port (8088), with the same result.
>>>
>>> Which leads me to believe that changing the port in url.properties does
>> not
>>> impact the port being used, *unless: *do I need to recompile/rebuild the
>>> whole thing in order for the port change to take effect?
>>>
>>> Or, is there some other place that I also need to change the port from
>> 8080
>>> to 80.
>>>
>>> Sorry for being such a newbie.
>>>
>>> Thanks again,
>>> Goran
>>>
>>> On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 5:38 PM, Scott Gray <[hidden email]
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> You can also modify framework/webapp/config/url.properties to set your
>> http
>>>> port to 80 and the https port to 443 so that users do not need to
>> specify
>>>> the port after the host name.
>>>>
>>>> Regards
>>>> Scott
>>>>
>>>> HotWax Media
>>>> http://www.hotwaxmedia.com
>>>>
>>>> On 18/02/2010, at 3:30 PM, Ruth Hoffman wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Goran:
>>>>> You don't need to do that. You can go to the ofbiz-component.xml file
>> for
>>>> the ecommerce component (~specialpurpose/ecommerce) and change the
>>>> mount-point entry to be mount-point="/".
>>>>>
>>>>> Hope that helps.
>>>>> Ruth
>>>>>
>>>>> Goran Janevski wrote:
>>>>>> Actually, now that you helped me figure this out, I can probably do
>> some
>>>>>> kind of DNS mapping through GoDaddy to get down to www.mydomain.com.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> When I figure it out, I will report back.
>>>>>>>> Best Regards,
>>>>>> Goran
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 11:19 AM, Goran Janevski <[hidden email]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Just trying to get started on OfBiz.  First impression: not much
>>>>>>> documentation to go on.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I was able to get the vanilla OfBiz running, but:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 1) I can't get to it via a domain name.  I can get to it on the
>>>> intranet,
>>>>>>> via the intranet IP address: http://
>> <local-ip>:8080/ecommerce<http://%3clocal-ip%3e:8080/ecommerce>
>>>> (also
>>>>>>> using "localhost" instead of <local-ip>).  I can get to it externally
>>>> via my
>>>>>>> router's WAN IP address: http://<wan-ip>:8080/ecommerce<http://
>>>> %3cwan-ip%3e:8080/ecommerce>.
>>>>>>> But, I can't get to it via www.mydomain.com.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I made sure there are no firewalls blocking this.  I opened up TCP
>>>> ports
>>>>>>> 80, 8080, and the https port on my router.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Can anyone help with this, please?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 2) I purchased Ms.Hoffman's catalog book, but it refers to oFBiz 4.
>> I
>>>>>>> downloaded oFBiz 9 (current), and in it, there is no place to change
>>>> the
>>>>>>> logo on a store (whereas it was clearly available in OfBiz 4) (!).
>> Why
>>>>>>> would this be removed?   So I proceeded to overwrite the
>> ofbizLogo.gif
>>>> with
>>>>>>> one of my own, and I can see that it replaced the ofbiz logo, but it
>> is
>>>> not
>>>>>>> showing properly.  Is there some resolution requirements on the logo
>> or
>>>> any
>>>>>>> other image displayed on the web page?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>> Goran
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>
>>

[Ruth Hoffman-2]

Hi Scott:
With all due respect and not to beat a dead horse, but the point about
getting your "hands dirty" is exactly why this should never have been
changed. It worked like a charm in 4.0.  And there is no reason why a
new OFBiz user shouldn't be able to load up an image and use it as a
logo for the store using the existing store management application - the
Catalog Manager. We can do that for product images, why not store images?

Regards,
Ruth


Scott Gray wrote:

> The image is most likely sized via the css file for the page: framework/images/webapp/images/ecommain.css
> Here you'll have to get your hands dirty I'm afraid, but it's pretty much unavoidable if you want your store to look in any way different from the demo store.
>
> Regards
> Scott
>
> On 18/02/2010, at 5:31 PM, Goran Janevski wrote:
>
>  
>> Yey! It worked.
>>
>> Now if I can just figure out why my gif picture is not showing up properly
>> as the ofbizLogo.gif, I will have reached my first milestone.
>>
>> I will read the technical production setup guide, and a couple of others
>> before I ask more questions.
>>
>> Thanks very much,
>> Goran
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 7:06 PM, Scott Gray <[hidden email]>wrote:
>>
>>    
>>> Sorry I missed the rest of the settings:
>>> framework/base/config/ofbiz-containers.xml
>>> Find the container named catalina-container and within that the following
>>> two property elements: http-connector and https-connector and change the
>>> port properties to 80 and 443 respectively.
>>>
>>> You'll find some other useful information in this document:
>>> http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBTECH/Apache+OFBiz+Technical+Production+Setup+Guide
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> Scott
>>>
>>> On 18/02/2010, at 4:54 PM, Goran Janevski wrote:
>>>
>>>      
>>>> Scott,
>>>>
>>>> That actually did not work.  After I modify the port in url.properties
>>>>        
>>> and
>>>      
>>>> setting it to 80, I can not access the web site with the domain only.  I
>>>>        
>>> can
>>>      
>>>> still access the web site using port 8080, but not without it.  I
>>>>        
>>> restarted
>>>      
>>>> the server after making the modification.
>>>>
>>>> I also tried another random port (8088), with the same result.
>>>>
>>>> Which leads me to believe that changing the port in url.properties does
>>>>        
>>> not
>>>      
>>>> impact the port being used, *unless: *do I need to recompile/rebuild the
>>>> whole thing in order for the port change to take effect?
>>>>
>>>> Or, is there some other place that I also need to change the port from
>>>>        
>>> 8080
>>>      
>>>> to 80.
>>>>
>>>> Sorry for being such a newbie.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks again,
>>>> Goran
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 5:38 PM, Scott Gray <[hidden email]
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>        
>>>>> You can also modify framework/webapp/config/url.properties to set your
>>>>>          
>>> http
>>>      
>>>>> port to 80 and the https port to 443 so that users do not need to
>>>>>          
>>> specify
>>>      
>>>>> the port after the host name.
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards
>>>>> Scott
>>>>>
>>>>> HotWax Media
>>>>> http://www.hotwaxmedia.com
>>>>>
>>>>> On 18/02/2010, at 3:30 PM, Ruth Hoffman wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>          
>>>>>> Hi Goran:
>>>>>> You don't need to do that. You can go to the ofbiz-component.xml file
>>>>>>            
>>> for
>>>      
>>>>> the ecommerce component (~specialpurpose/ecommerce) and change the
>>>>> mount-point entry to be mount-point="/".
>>>>>          
>>>>>> Hope that helps.
>>>>>> Ruth
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Goran Janevski wrote:
>>>>>>            
>>>>>>> Actually, now that you helped me figure this out, I can probably do
>>>>>>>              
>>> some
>>>      
>>>>>>> kind of DNS mapping through GoDaddy to get down to www.mydomain.com.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> When I figure it out, I will report back.
>>>>>>>              
>>>>>>>>> Best Regards,
>>>>>>>>>                  
>>>>>>> Goran
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 11:19 AM, Goran Janevski <[hidden email]>
>>>>>>>              
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>          
>>>>>>>              
>>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Just trying to get started on OfBiz.  First impression: not much
>>>>>>>> documentation to go on.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I was able to get the vanilla OfBiz running, but:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> 1) I can't get to it via a domain name.  I can get to it on the
>>>>>>>>                
>>>>> intranet,
>>>>>          
>>>>>>>> via the intranet IP address: http://
>>>>>>>>                
>>> <local-ip>:8080/ecommerce<http://%3clocal-ip%3e:8080/ecommerce>
>>>      
>>>>> (also
>>>>>          
>>>>>>>> using "localhost" instead of <local-ip>).  I can get to it externally
>>>>>>>>                
>>>>> via my
>>>>>          
>>>>>>>> router's WAN IP address: http://<wan-ip>:8080/ecommerce<http://
>>>>>>>>                
>>>>> %3cwan-ip%3e:8080/ecommerce>.
>>>>>          
>>>>>>>> But, I can't get to it via www.mydomain.com.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I made sure there are no firewalls blocking this.  I opened up TCP
>>>>>>>>                
>>>>> ports
>>>>>          
>>>>>>>> 80, 8080, and the https port on my router.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Can anyone help with this, please?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> 2) I purchased Ms.Hoffman's catalog book, but it refers to oFBiz 4.
>>>>>>>>                
>>> I
>>>      
>>>>>>>> downloaded oFBiz 9 (current), and in it, there is no place to change
>>>>>>>>                
>>>>> the
>>>>>          
>>>>>>>> logo on a store (whereas it was clearly available in OfBiz 4) (!).
>>>>>>>>                
>>> Why
>>>      
>>>>>>>> would this be removed?   So I proceeded to overwrite the
>>>>>>>>                
>>> ofbizLogo.gif
>>>      
>>>>> with
>>>>>          
>>>>>>>> one of my own, and I can see that it replaced the ofbiz logo, but it
>>>>>>>>                
>>> is
>>>      
>>>>> not
>>>>>          
>>>>>>>> showing properly.  Is there some resolution requirements on the logo
>>>>>>>>                
>>> or
>>>      
>>>>> any
>>>>>          
>>>>>>>> other image displayed on the web page?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>>> Goran
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>                
>>>>>>>              
>>>>>          
>>>      
>
>  

[Ruth Hoffman-2]

Hi Goran:
Just in case you are not a CSS or Freemarker heavyweight or you start
getting bogged down in where are the files are:

The store header is defined by a CSS DIV container set to 80px high.
Within that DIV container are three other DIV containers: #left,
#middle, #right. DIV#left is set to 280px wide. So if your image is
larger that 80px X 280px, you will more than likely have some overlap.
Since there isn't any local "img" styling, if your image is smaller, it
may not sit inside the #left container in a way that pleases you.

The CSS is in ~ecommain.css the Freemarker file that defines the HTML is in

 ~specialpurpose/ecommerce/webapp/ecommerce/includes/header.ftl

How large is your logo?

Regards,
Ruth

Goran Janevski wrote:

> Yey! It worked.
>
> Now if I can just figure out why my gif picture is not showing up properly
> as the ofbizLogo.gif, I will have reached my first milestone.
>
> I will read the technical production setup guide, and a couple of others
> before I ask more questions.
>
> Thanks very much,
> Goran
>
> On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 7:06 PM, Scott Gray <[hidden email]>wrote:
>
>  
>> Sorry I missed the rest of the settings:
>> framework/base/config/ofbiz-containers.xml
>> Find the container named catalina-container and within that the following
>> two property elements: http-connector and https-connector and change the
>> port properties to 80 and 443 respectively.
>>
>> You'll find some other useful information in this document:
>> http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBTECH/Apache+OFBiz+Technical+Production+Setup+Guide
>>
>> Regards
>> Scott
>>
>> On 18/02/2010, at 4:54 PM, Goran Janevski wrote:
>>
>>    
>>> Scott,
>>>
>>> That actually did not work.  After I modify the port in url.properties
>>>      
>> and
>>    
>>> setting it to 80, I can not access the web site with the domain only.  I
>>>      
>> can
>>    
>>> still access the web site using port 8080, but not without it.  I
>>>      
>> restarted
>>    
>>> the server after making the modification.
>>>
>>> I also tried another random port (8088), with the same result.
>>>
>>> Which leads me to believe that changing the port in url.properties does
>>>      
>> not
>>    
>>> impact the port being used, *unless: *do I need to recompile/rebuild the
>>> whole thing in order for the port change to take effect?
>>>
>>> Or, is there some other place that I also need to change the port from
>>>      
>> 8080
>>    
>>> to 80.
>>>
>>> Sorry for being such a newbie.
>>>
>>> Thanks again,
>>> Goran
>>>
>>> On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 5:38 PM, Scott Gray <[hidden email]
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>      
>>>> You can also modify framework/webapp/config/url.properties to set your
>>>>        
>> http
>>    
>>>> port to 80 and the https port to 443 so that users do not need to
>>>>        
>> specify
>>    
>>>> the port after the host name.
>>>>
>>>> Regards
>>>> Scott
>>>>
>>>> HotWax Media
>>>> http://www.hotwaxmedia.com
>>>>
>>>> On 18/02/2010, at 3:30 PM, Ruth Hoffman wrote:
>>>>
>>>>        
>>>>> Hi Goran:
>>>>> You don't need to do that. You can go to the ofbiz-component.xml file
>>>>>          
>> for
>>    
>>>> the ecommerce component (~specialpurpose/ecommerce) and change the
>>>> mount-point entry to be mount-point="/".
>>>>        
>>>>> Hope that helps.
>>>>> Ruth
>>>>>
>>>>> Goran Janevski wrote:
>>>>>          
>>>>>> Actually, now that you helped me figure this out, I can probably do
>>>>>>            
>> some
>>    
>>>>>> kind of DNS mapping through GoDaddy to get down to www.mydomain.com.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> When I figure it out, I will report back.
>>>>>>            
>>>>>>>> Best Regards,
>>>>>>>>                
>>>>>> Goran
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 11:19 AM, Goran Janevski <[hidden email]>
>>>>>>            
>>>> wrote:
>>>>        
>>>>>>            
>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Just trying to get started on OfBiz.  First impression: not much
>>>>>>> documentation to go on.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I was able to get the vanilla OfBiz running, but:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 1) I can't get to it via a domain name.  I can get to it on the
>>>>>>>              
>>>> intranet,
>>>>        
>>>>>>> via the intranet IP address: http://
>>>>>>>              
>> <local-ip>:8080/ecommerce<http://%3clocal-ip%3e:8080/ecommerce>
>>    
>>>> (also
>>>>        
>>>>>>> using "localhost" instead of <local-ip>).  I can get to it externally
>>>>>>>              
>>>> via my
>>>>        
>>>>>>> router's WAN IP address: http://<wan-ip>:8080/ecommerce<http://
>>>>>>>              
>>>> %3cwan-ip%3e:8080/ecommerce>.
>>>>        
>>>>>>> But, I can't get to it via www.mydomain.com.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I made sure there are no firewalls blocking this.  I opened up TCP
>>>>>>>              
>>>> ports
>>>>        
>>>>>>> 80, 8080, and the https port on my router.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Can anyone help with this, please?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 2) I purchased Ms.Hoffman's catalog book, but it refers to oFBiz 4.
>>>>>>>              
>>  I
>>    
>>>>>>> downloaded oFBiz 9 (current), and in it, there is no place to change
>>>>>>>              
>>>> the
>>>>        
>>>>>>> logo on a store (whereas it was clearly available in OfBiz 4) (!).
>>>>>>>              
>>  Why
>>    
>>>>>>> would this be removed?   So I proceeded to overwrite the
>>>>>>>              
>> ofbizLogo.gif
>>    
>>>> with
>>>>        
>>>>>>> one of my own, and I can see that it replaced the ofbiz logo, but it
>>>>>>>              
>> is
>>    
>>>> not
>>>>        
>>>>>>> showing properly.  Is there some resolution requirements on the logo
>>>>>>>              
>> or
>>    
>>>> any
>>>>        
>>>>>>> other image displayed on the web page?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>> Goran
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>              
>>>>>>            
>>>>        
>>    
>
>