I have installed GeoNetwork v2.6.4 and am trying to access the main page but
it comes up blank (light blue background). The top menu appears ok with the
links and username / password input, I can access the admin page once I log
in so it is just the initial page that is not loading (see image).
Having problems accessing GeoNetwork on the default 8080 port (presumably
because of other applications running on it) so I have tried to change it to
port 8081. I have changed the jetty.xml file's port entry but perhaps I need
to change other files for the catalogue to appear on the home page?
I am unable to install v2.8 and above as I need to run a UK Location
metadata tool which is only supported on v2.6.4.
Any help / tips / advice would be much appreciated.
I always have that kind of "blank screen" when there is an encoding error.
Most of the time the encoding is wrong in either
/srv/tomcat/geonetwork/webapps/geonetwork/loc/ger/xml/*strings.xml*
(configuration of the text on the various pages) or
/srv/tomcat/geonetwork/webapps/geonetwork/WEB-INF/*config-gui.xml*
(map-viewer configuration).
In addition to that, if you add servers to config-gui.xml some characters
like & won´t be accepted after a ? in an URL of a WMS or things like that.
In order to prevent any inconvenience with the encoding, I alway first
duplicate an original file, change it... if there are problems with a blank
screen, I look for special characters which are the reasons for this error
in the changed file and start again.
For some files it is helpful to change from ANSI to UTF-8 or the other way
round. We always have those problems because German language is full of ä ö
ü ß...
The blank screen is appearing straight after the install of GeoNetwork
v2.6.4, I haven't reconfigured it in anyway (just followed the basic install
procedure) so I wouldn't have thought there could be any settings I can
change for the software itself?
I have installed version 2.6.4 on both my own PC and server, it works fine
on my PC (catalogue window appears) but the blank screen is appearing on the
server.
Version 2.8 worked fine on my server so I am not sure what has changed
between these two versions that may be giving me this issue? It must be
something related to my server (Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Standard, 64
bit)?
