Can't start oracle wiki and blog application right after installation

I've been setting up the wiki and blog application 10.1.3.4.0 on weblogic server 10gR3, windows 2003 server SP2 and on trying to launch the application using the url format http://host_name:port/owc_wiki I get the following error
Error 404--Not Found
From RFC 2068 Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1:
10.4.5 404 Not Found
The server has not found anything matching the Request-URI. No indication is given of whether the condition is temporary or permanent.
If the server does not wish to make this information available to the client, the status code 403 (Forbidden) can be used instead. The 410 (Gone) status code SHOULD be used if the server knows, through some internally configurable mechanism, that an old resource is permanently unavailable and has no forwarding address.
Any ideas? The access logs are showing that there was a GET request, but I can't find the reason why the server is not servicing the request.
Edited by: user11116406 on 2009/05/13 3:04 AM
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Edited by: user11116406 on 2009/05/13 3:17 AM

I hope who ever gets this problem gets help from this solution. I managed to solve my problem just that from the many diagnostic changes, I can't really put a finger on what really did the trick!!
I desided to go through the insatllation one more time. I noticed that when I create by Data source jdbc/OWCWikiDS and test it, it was testing successfully.
After setting up Data source I went bank to JDBC > DataSources > Monitoring > Testing. i selected my data source "wikiserver", and tested , i got this error -
"weblogic server Warning! Connectivity to backend database not verified. This is either because required connection pool attribute "TestConnectionsOnReserve" has not been enabled, or an invalid value has been specified for attribute "TestTableName". Please check the server log for more details.."
I then went to JDBC > DataSources > jdbc/OWCWikiDS> Connection Pool > Advanced
Test Connections On Reserve, and I checked it. Further to that I changed my driver from oracle Driver (thin) to BEA's oracle Driver Type 4AX.
Then I inspected my startWebLogic.cmd and noticed that my update for toplink was not at the exact place it had to be so I practically copied the whole if-else clause in the guide to replace my one.
After that My application was now working.

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So is there some way to make blog entries editable for author only, not whole group? Or if it is not possible, then maybe make blog versioned too. I can make one blog-entry versioned just changing:
<key>versioned</key>
<false/>
to true in
/Library/Collaboration/Groups/macwiki/weblog/ed008.page/page.plist
but how can I make it default?
Thanks

I ran into a similar problem when doing authentication against a non-OpenDirectory ldap server. The problem was that the user blogs were not getting tag with the owners GUID since the GUID didn't exist.
My solution was to redeploy with an OD master and skip the external ldap. Another approach would be to use OD with augmented accounts.
Derek

Remove 'wiki' and 'blog' but leave 'calendar'

Leopard Server 10.5.7: I'd like to have just a calendar available, not a blog or wiki. This does not seem possible. Workgroup Manager lets you deselect Wiki and Blog but leave Calendar selected for groups. When you do this and try to access via the web, you get the message that no group exists.
Another possible solution is to just delete 'wiki' and 'blog' from the top of each page. I've found that I can delete 'wiki', 'blog' and 'calendar' by deleting a section in default.xsl, but this has the side effect of also deleting the dates in the calender. I'm not stuck as to how to proceed. The text I was removing was in "class webapptoolbar" and was the three lines beginning with <xsl:for-each select="context/webAppToolbarLinks/item">
Any suggestions?

1. That will depend. I'm not sure since you are editing the default template sets. It is recommended that you create a custom theme so any changes you make will be isolated from an update.
Look at this document: http://images.apple.com/server/macosx/docs/ExtendingYour_WikiServer.pdf
2. Yes it is the list element with an id attribute of user_button, you could also use:
.webapptoolbar #users_button {display:none;}
But the first one a gave you is more specific.
You can use the Firebug plugin for Firefox to check what styles are being applied to a given element.
Shannon
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