How to install Pentaho BI 5.0.1 on Tomcat

Question

I looked through tons of articles, but couldn't find a solution. It seems as if folder structure of biserver-manual changes from a version to a version. For example, one guy suggests here unzipping the archive with folders administration-console and biserver-ce as a first step of installation process, however, there are no such folders in version 5.0.1. Another guy suggests here navigating to \biserver-manual-ce\pentaho-webapp\WEB-INF\web.xml to make some editions, but once again there is no such file in a package. When I unzip it, I see only pentaho.war, pentaho-style.war, pentaho-data.zip and pentaho-solutions.zip. So, I really need a complete guide of biserver installation. What I now have is: Apache Tomcat 8.0 and Apache Ant 1.9.3. I also have MySQL Server 5.5 and want to connect it with Pentaho.

EDIT:

I tried these four links:

http://anonymousbi.wordpress.com/2012/10/28/pentaho-bi-server-4-5-0-definitive-mysql-installation-guide/

http://woodlouse.blogspot.ru/2013/01/the-worlds-first-install-guide-for.html

http://habrahabr.ru/post/187782/

http://helicaltech.com/pentaho-5-0-1-ce-integration-mysql-5-0-1-ce-windows-linux-family/

Each one leads to a 404 error and a long list of errors in pentaho.log. I just wonder, who have ever seen Pentaho in work? Is it even possible?

Answer 1

Yes. I have installed the community edition on Tomcat 7. I am able to login but I still testing it. Try this tutorial: http://pentaho-bi-suite.blogspot.com.es/2014/01/installation-of-pentaho-501-ce-with.html

I also took a lot of ideas from here:

http://pablotips.blogspot.com.es/p/installing-tomcat-and-pentaho.html

Some tips:

• The Tomcat distribution come with some folders. Copy the Data, pentaho-solutions and licenses to the same directory as tomcat. You will need it.

• Do not change the name of the the Tomcat they give you: C:\Pentaho\server\biserver-ee\tomcat\webapps but if you change it you need to update solution-path in web.xml

• You need to start the Tomcat with enough memory. Copy the parameters from the start-pentaho.bat. Update the service or the start script.

• You need to configure the "_PENTAHO_JAVA" and "_PENTAHO_JAVA_HOME" variables

• In tomcat\webapps\pentaho\META-INF\context.xml docbase should be docBase. This will avoid one warning but I still find errors and warnings in the logs.

• In \webapps\pentaho\docs there is a lot of documentation that can be helpfull.

• Before point 4 "Executing MySQL .sql scripting files for Pentaho Integration" the server should be able to start and work with some demo data in hsql.

• On point 5.III of the tutorial it tells who to change the META-INF/context.xml highlighting the change of URL but forgot to highligth the change of driver to MySQL and validationQuery.

• If you find some Quartz initialization problems see create an empty table

Good look and please report any other finding.