I’ve been assigned the task of tracking down why a webpage is breaking under dotCMS. The page shows an error stack trace with a description that suggests it relates to SQL. I got access to the remote file system and was able to pull up the java file. The sql it is generating is failing when passed to a getResults method. I was wanting to see the value of that string of sql.
Maybe I could create a text file with that value through java. The previous programmer (that left the business) told me that I would need to shut down the server, clean plugins, deploy plugins and re-start the server so the source could be recompiled into jar files. I don’t know how to do any of that at this point…and I wonder if those measures should only be taken when I’m deploying the fix.
I know Eclipse has logging abilities because I’ve dabbled with Android. I didn’t know if there is a way that I could somehow remotely connect to the file. I found a tutorial for setting up eclipse with dotcms. It however wants me to check out the official dotcms source to my machine. I guess I don’t understand how remote connections work with eclipse and if eclipse could even help with this issue. Noob question for sure!
When you want to run dotCMS from within eclipse it is not that hard. Remember that dotCMS is just tomcat with a default host deployed in it (the dotCMS application). You can download the dotCMS source here: http://dotcms.com/downloads/index.dot. Startup eclipse and add a tomcat server ( It is tomcat 6.0.26 at this moment), pointing the tomcat folder to the tomcat directory in the dotCMS install folder. You can start tomcat from eclipse this way.
You will have to deploy the plugins if you need to debug those. Below I describe it in detail, but dotCMS has a page on this on their official site as well: http://dotcms.com/plugins/plugin-faq.dot#HowInstall
Your plugins are redeployed now. You can restart dotCMS.