Running BirtViewer on Linux

Hi and thank you for reading,

I have just switched from my local windows-tomcat server to a linux tomcat server and am facing a url problem with hyperlinks.

Basically, I have a report with a hyperlink to an other report. Both reports work just fine if you call them with the direkt link. However, while executing a hyperlink from one report to the other, linux is trying to put the complete url-location of the report into the address line which results in not finding the report.

The direkt url to the report is as follows:
http://localhost:8080/birtViewer/preview?__report=TopTen9.rptdesign&__format=html&endDate=2009-01-19&beginDate=2009-01-07&__locale=en_US&__svg=false&__designer=false&__pageoverflow=0&__masterpage=true

While executing a hyperlink, the following url is in the address line:
http://localhost:8080/birtViewer/preview?__report=../../../../../../../remote/projteams/projects/server/tomcat/apache-tomcat-5.5.27/webapps/birtViewer/TopTen9.rptdesign&__format=html&endDate=2009-01-19&beginDate=2009-01-07&__locale=en_US&__svg=false&__designer=false&__pageoverflow=0&__masterpage=true

Is there an easy way to resolve this issue?

I am using a drill-through hyperlink and am passing a few parameters.

Thank you for your help!

Evgeny

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mwilliams

Hi Evgeny,

Sorry for the delayed response. I have not heard of this as an issue before. Are you still having this issue? Or is it resolved?

evgeny

Hi mwilliams,

thank you for your answer.
The issue is not resolved yet. I am using an URI instead of the drill through hyperlink, which works just fine, though it is a bit more cumbersome.
The problem is that Linux doesn't accept the link structure with the "%2F" instead of "/". And it also adds the entire path to the link, while path give is a symbolic link.

Regards,

Evgeny

mwilliams

Evgeny,

Using the '/' in the path to the report is not an option for you?

evgeny

Hi mwilliams,

it is, but the drill-through function is converting the / into a "%2F", it also adds the entire path of the report to the link in linux, that is the actual problem. If it wouldn't add the entire path in linux, the problem would be solved. Currently I am using the URI function and giving the direct url.

Thank you for your support

Evgeny

mwilliams

Evgeny,

In your web.xml file, try changing the value for BIRT_VIEWER_WORKING_FOLDER from true to false.

evgeny

Hi mwilliams,

that doesn't really fix the problem, the parameter BIRT_VIEWER_WORKING_FOLDER sets the path of the report location, which I conclude from the following error:
...tomcat/apache-tomcat-5.5.27-20090324/webapps/birtViewer/false/Report.rptdesign does not exist or contains errors.

I also can't see any other parameters in the web.xml which would resolve the issue.

Thank you for your help

Evgeny

mwilliams

Evgeny,

Hmmm, your problem seemed to be the same as the case in which others were having where that solution was found. If I come up with anything else, I'll post in here.

Rob77

Hi guys,
I think I have similar setup - both server (Tomcat) and browser (Firefox) are run on Linux.
I use drill-through hyperlink, as well.
In my case I select report design (not report document), in which I specify "report_design.rptdesign" (no '/', no '%2F' - those two reports are in the same directory).
And in such case it just works with no problems.
Please let me know if there's any difference with your setup.
BIRT 2.3.2

Regards,
Robert