[GeoNetwork-devel] GAST not properly starting

Hello,

I just finished doing a fresh install of 2.6.2 on Windows 7, and fired up GeoNetwork just fine on that machine. I then clicked on Start GAST but instead of the normal dialog, e.g., http://geonetwork-opensource.org/manuals/2.6.2/users/admin/import2/index.html, I get a GAST Configuration window:

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I figured this was something new so I went through and set as many of the paths as I could. But even after doing that an error message came indicating something couldn’t find ‘server.prop’ .

If anyone has seen this issue before and has an idea on how to fix it, I’d sure appreciate it.

Thanks!

Bob

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Hi Bob,

GAST starting up with this config-screen just means you’ll have to specify the folder of the GN webapp inside the \web folder of your GN install as <your_GN_location>\web\geonetwork.
Suppose your GN is installed in C:\apps, then the path for !webapp! would be C:\apps\geonetwork-2.6.1\web\geonetwork.

GAST will write the paths you specify to <your_GN_location>\gast\previousGastConfig.properties and proceed to the regular GUI.
I don’t know whether there’s a more elegant way using a relative path to the GN webapp, but the hard coded webapp path (with escaped backslashes) works fine for me under Win 7 with GN <=2.6.1.

Cheers,
Florian

Thank you Florian!

That did the trick! After clicking on ‘Start GAST’ the configuration window appeared. I used the browse button in there to browse to the install, e.g., C:\Program Files\geonetwork\web\geonetwork then clicked OK. Then all was well.

Thank you again.

Regards, Bob

From: Florian Mayer [mailto:florian.wendelin.mayer@anonymised.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2011 9:04 PM
To: Nutsch, Bob D.
Cc: geonetwork-devel@anonymised.comge.net
Subject: Re: [GeoNetwork-devel] GAST not properly starting

Hi Bob,

GAST starting up with this config-screen just means you’ll have to specify the folder of the GN webapp inside the \web folder of your GN install as <your_GN_location>\web\geonetwork.

Suppose your GN is installed in C:\apps, then the path for !webapp! would be C:\apps\geonetwork-2.6.1\web\geonetwork.

GAST will write the paths you specify to <your_GN_location>\gast\previousGastConfig.properties and proceed to the regular GUI.

I don’t know whether there’s a more elegant way using a relative path to the GN webapp, but the hard coded webapp path (with escaped backslashes) works fine for me under Win 7 with GN <=2.6.1.

Cheers,

Florian