Hi Community,
I followed the Appian quick start installation guide, and ran all commands:
<APPIAN_HOME>\services\bin\start.bat -p <password> -s all
<APPIAN_HOME>\data-server\bin\start.bat
<APPIAN_HOME>\search-server\bin\start.bat
<APPIAN_HOME>\tomcat\apache-tomcat\bin\start-appserver.bat
Everything ran successfully, but when I went to my browser and navigated to http://<FQDN>:8080/suite/design/users, it wasn't connecting, tried different browsers same result. I replaced the FQDN with what I entered in conf.suite.SERVER_AND_PORT= and it is un-commented so is conf.suite.SCHEME=. I'm not sure what else could have went wrong. If anyone have resolved a similar issue your input would be most welcome.
Thanks,
Eric
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This can be so many things. You might get lucky and have someone know exactly what the issue is but you're most likely going to have to raise an case with Appian.
Thanks for response. Yea that seems most likely, will have to open up a case.
Maybe a stupid question, but does the FQDN resolve to your machine?
I searched about your pc and copied the full device name.
Like described here?
https://docs.appian.com/suite/help/21.4/Quick_Start_Installation_Guide.html#custom-properties
Any errors in log files? I have no concrete ideas.
BTW, why do you install a local environment? Do you want to develop any plugins? If not, go cloud.
Yep followed that guide. Yea I want to use it test some plugins. I checked logs and it looks like it's not connecting to the right DB.
2021-12-10 14:58:37,680 [wait-for-component] INFO com.appiancorp.common.startup.WaitForStatefulComponents - Waiting for Appian component Primary datasource RDBMS to be healthy... 2021-12-10 14:58:42 SEVERE [wait-for-component] org.apache.tomcat.jdbc.pool.ConnectionPool.init Unable to create initial connections of pool. java.sql.SQLException: Unable to load class: org.mariadb.jdbc.Driver from ClassLoader:java.net.URLClassLoader@13221655;ClassLoader:AppianWebappClassLoader context: suite delegate: false
At <REPO_HOME>\conf\tomcatResources.xml.<ENVIRONMENT>. For step 4 in the guide
<REPO_HOME>\conf\tomcatResources.xml.<ENVIRONMENT>
inside the xml file it has driverClassName="org.mariadb.jdbc.Driver" and the guide never told me to change this but I'm using MySQL as my db.
I realized the problem I just had to change the driverclass name to "org.mysql.jdbc.Driver". It was right there I was so blind, but going through the logs really helped.