I have a question regarding adding texts or content of a webpage configured through Grails Groovy programming. Sometime ago, our group had created a web resource for mining expression data and software development of the same was left dormant. This resource was built using various software programs (Apache Tomcat 6.0.24, Java 1.7.0_03, Apache http server 2.2, R 2.15.1, Mysql 5.1.41, Mongo 2.02, Grails 2.1.0).
Since few weeks we got innovative ideas to actively develop this web resource and enhance it by adding interesting content to the webpage. Now, I am working on this and and would like to add brief texts and useful content to the webpage (landing.gsp file- see below directory path). However, the added texts does not get reflected on the webpage even after restarting tomcat server.
I have limited knowledge about the software development aspect and researched a bit and tried two suggested methods, however, unsuccessful in both of them.
It seems like after adding the texts to landing.gsp file in the views directory, or in order to make any changes to a deployed application on Grails, I had to configure Config.groovy file by adding the required details: Make any changes to a deployed application on Grails. I configured as suggested, however, no success.
1. Edited the landing.gsp file:
Sudo vi /home/ubuntu/gxb/gxbrowser/grails-app/views/landing.gsp
Sudo vi /var/lib/tomcat6/webapps/dm3/WEB-INF/grails-app/views/landing.gsp
2. Edited and added to the Config.groovy file:
Sudo vi /home/ubuntu/gxb/gxbrowser/grails-app/conf/Config.groovy
Added the below:
grails.gsp.enable.reload = true
grails.gsp.view.dir = "/var/www/grails/my-app/"
3. Also, with these settings in place, I copied the views directory from web application to the external directory. To retain the view directory structure, including the grails-app/views bit.
mkdir -p /var/www/grails/my-app/grails-app/views
cp -R grails-app/views/* /var/www/grails/my-app/grails-app/views
It seems another suggestion was to add the texts to landing.gsp file and compile, and then place the binary in the tomcat folder. I tried running Grails to compile or even generate war file, this shows an error message (see below):
ubuntu@ip-172-31-14-90:~/gxb/gxbrowser/grails-app/views$ grails compile
| Configuring classpath
| Error /home/ubuntu/gxb/gxbrowser/grails-app/views does not appear to be part of a Grails application.
| Error The following commands are supported outside of a project:
add-proxy
clear-proxy
create-app
create-multi-project-build
create-plugin
help
list-plugins
package-plugin
plugin-info
remove-proxy
set-proxy
| Run 'grails help' for a complete list of available scripts.
ubuntu@ip-172-31-14-90:~/gxb/gxbrowser/grails-app/views$ grails war
| Configuring classpath
| Error /home/ubuntu/gxb/gxbrowser/grails-app/views does not appear to be part of a Grails application.
| Error The following commands are supported outside of a project:
Please assist me with this.
Thank you,
Toufiq
This issue is now resolved by Method 2.