Deploy on Windows

python

Download and deploy a 64bit version of python 3.5. I used python-3.5.3-amd64.exe.

To try and solve the issues running python services (see Celery and Stalled), I asked the installer to do the following:

  1. Installed python for all users

  2. Added python to the PATH.

In the end, I think the issue was solved by installing pywin32-221.win-amd64-py3.5.exe as a global package, so perhaps we don’t need to add python to the PATH or for all users?

Activiti

Note

The steps taken to intall Activiti on our 1&1 Windows server

pgAdmin:

create role       activiti
password          yourDbPassword

create database
owner             activiti
template          template0

Download the JDK from http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk8-downloads-2133151.html (selected 8u92)

Click install Next > ; Next > ; Next >; Close

Note the installation directory for use in the next step

Download Tomcat from https://tomcat.apache.org/download-80.cgi

Choose 32-bit/64-bit Windows Service installer and run Click Next ; I Agree ; Next >;

Then on Configuration Options dialog change Http/1.1 Connector port: 8080 (default but may have to change)

Tomcat Administrator Username  admin
Password                       yourTomcatPassword

On Java Virtual Machine path Select, ensure the following is selected:

C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.8.0_92

Accept the default installation directory and click install and then close (leaving Run Tomcat selected)

In Control Panel | Administrative tools | Services click on Apache Tomcat 8.0 Tomcat8 and choose startup type Automatic and press OK.

Download the Postgresql JDBC jar from https://jdbc.postgresql.org/download/postgresql-9.4.1208.jar and place it in:

C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 8.0\lib

Download activiti-6.0.0.Beta2.zip from http://activiti.org/download.html

Using file explorer browse to:

C:\Users\Administrator\Downloads\activiti-6.0.0.Beta2.zip\activiti-6.0.0.Beta2\wars

and copy the activiti-rest.war file to:

C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 8.0\webapps

Tomcat will automatically extract the webapp.

After about a minute you should be able to type: http://localhost:8080/activiti-rest/service/repository/deployments/ and see a json dataset containing the currently deployments.

Configure activiti rest to use postgresql as follows:

Alter the:

C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 8.0\webapps\activiti-rest\WEB-INF\classes\db.properties

as follows:

db=activiti
jdbc.driver=org.postgresql.Driver
jdbc.url=jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5432/activiti
jdbc.username=activiti
jdbc.password=yourDbPassword

Restart Tomcat using the services menu.

Celery

To install the Celery services, start by installing python (see python):

cd C:\inetpub\wwwroot\your-app-folder\
venv\Scripts\activate.bat
python celery_service_worker.py install
python celery_service_beat.py install

Note

For troubleshooting see, Stalled…

Deploy

Use our offline module at https://gitlab.com/kb/offline

FastCGI

Upload File Size and Timeout Issues

In IIS if there are problems with Timeouts, etc, Open IIS then:

FASTCGI:

  1. Locate the root node for the server (parent of Sites).

  2. Find FastCGI settings

  3. Locate the setting for the website with the issue. There should be a FastCGI settings for each of your Django sites on Initialise

  4. Click to Edit:(secs):

    Activity Timeout: 3600
Idle Timeout: 3600
Request Timeout: 3600

SITE:

  1. Locate the root node for the Site

  2. Advanced Settings:

    Connection Timeout (secs): 12000
Failed Requests Tracing -->
  Directory: %SystemDrive%\inetpub\logs\FailedReqLogFiles
  Enabled: True

  3. Locate the Request Filtering icon:

    Maximum Allowed Content length: 3147483648

  4. Add to web.config:

    <system.webServer>
    <security>
      <requestFiltering>
        <requestLimits maxAllowedContentLength="3147483648">
                  <headerLimits>
                  </headerLimits>
              </requestLimits>
      </requestFiltering>
    </security>

APP POOL:

  1. Locate the App pool for your Site

  2. Advanced Settings:

    Ping Maximum Response Time: 360

Release

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