Subsonic Forum

I know this probably isn't the best place to ask this, but here it goes.

Has anyone had any luck getting tomcat running under FreeBSD 6.X?
I've tried following a few guides out on the net, but they are cryptic at best. So if anyone that follows the group can help I would really appriciate it. Otherwise I fear I will have to look into using jinzora, yuck!

I love subsonic and used it for like a year and a half on my windows server, but since my switch to FreeBSD I can't seem to get Tomcat running, and without it I can't use my beloved subsonic.

I think it should be possible to run Subsonic on FreeBSD (and any other OS) without running Tomcat, using the following undocumented and untested approach:

o Put subsonic.war and subsonic-booter-jar-with-dependencies.jar (from the Windows version) in a directory.
o Go to that directory and run:

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java -cp subsonic-booter-jar-with-dependencies.jar -Dsubsonic.port=80 -Dsubsonic.contextPath=/subsonic net.sourceforge.subsonic.booter.Main

o Ignore any warnings about "java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: no tray in java.library.path"
o Open http://localhost/subsonic/ in your browser.
o If you want to run Subsonic on a different port or context path, change the command line arguments accordingly.

Hope this helps!

(I'll consider making a separate download for people who wants to run Subsonic like this).

Before jumping into why Subsonic isn't working, what issues are you having getting Tomcat to run on BSD? It shouldn't be that difficult. If I remember correctly, doesn't FreeBSD have an apt-get command to get the correct version?

well after about a year of using Jinzora because I didn't want to mess with trying to get tomcat running I finally gave it another shot. It was definatly worth it. Subsonic is better than Jinzora by leaps.

works great on my windows mobile phone too!