6. January 2014

IntelliJ Idea – Cordova – Default Activity not found! – solution

Situation: import Cordova project with support of Android platform to Intellij Idea. You’re not able to start emulator, because of strange error:

Default Activity not found!

cordova-error-activity-not-found

One solution could be: go to File menu and choose Invalidate Caches /Restart.

This might not help.

The real problem is most likely in configuration of Android module. Open project configuration, select module and make sure that directory src is marked as Source.

cordova-error-add-sources

Confirm module configuration and error message should disappear.

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17. December 2013

Debian – upgrade from Apache 2.2 to 2.4 – Starting web server: apache2 failed!

Debian maintainers changed default Apache from version 2.2 to 2.4. Not a big deal?

I was just upgrading one package and it had dependency on whole new Apache. I said yes to upgrade, because I had no bigger issues with Apache upgrade in past.

Wohoo. This upgrade was very funny, because Apache 2.4 was not able to start due to conflicting configurations. The coolest part was that Subversion stopped working, but that’s different story.

The problematic part was that Apache failed to start with nice message:

[FAIL] Starting web server: apache2 failed!
[warn] The apache2 instance did not start within 20 seconds. Please read the log files to discover problems ... (warning)

I checked the log file /var/log/apache2/error.log, but there was no hint what went wrong.

Apache was working even though startup script reported error. :-)

After a while I found that there were some important changes in /etc/apache2/apache2.conf. I compared this file with /etc/apache2/apache2.conf.dpkg.dist.

It was necessary to update following lines in apache2.conf:

Mutex file:${APACHE_LOCK_DIR} default
PidFile ${APACHE_PID_FILE}
#LockFile /var/lock/apache2/accept.lock - disable this, old value

Then it was possible to start Apache without problem:

[ ok ] Restarting web server: apache2.

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13. November 2011

Apache Tomcat 7 Maven plugin

I was searching for Apache Tomcat 7 Maven plugin. I found only messages that no such thing exists and that I have to use some workaround. Finally I found link at StackOwerflow that pointed me to the testing version of  such a plugin.

You just need to configure repository and update mojo definition.

 <repositories>
    <repository>
      <id>people.apache.snapshots</id>
      <url>http://repository.apache.org/content/groups/snapshots-group/</url>
      <releases>
        <enabled>false</enabled>
      </releases>
      <snapshots>
        <enabled>true</enabled>
      </snapshots>
    </repository>
  </repositories>

  <pluginRepositories>
    <pluginRepository>
      <id>apache.snapshots</id>
      <name>Apache Snapshots</name>
      <url>http://repository.apache.org/content/groups/snapshots-group/</url>
      <releases>
        <enabled>false</enabled>
      </releases>
      <snapshots>
        <enabled>true</enabled>
      </snapshots>
    </pluginRepository>
  </pluginRepositories>
...
<plugin>
      <groupId>org.apache.tomcat.maven</groupId>
      <artifactId>tomcat7-maven-plugin</artifactId>
      <version>2.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
      <configuration>
        <path>/</path>
      </configuration>
    </plugin>

You can run Tomcat7 by: mvn tomcat7:run

You can read more about this new version of Tomcat Maven plugin at tomcat.apache.org.

This plugin is still under development.

BTW: List Maven plugins hosted at Apache.org is available at maven.apache.org/plugins.

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