DHIS2 Installation on Ubuntu

[Gabriel_Oduori]

Good day.

I was wondering if someone could help point me to where I might be getting things incorrectly. I am setting up a fresh installation of DHIS (40) on an Ubuntu 23 server, following instructions from official documentation. It seems like my server is starting and then getting stuck somewhere in Deploying the web app and eventually not creating the required his tables. Here are my configurations and log files as well.

Thanks for your time

[Gassim (AL-Gassim Sharaf Addin)]

Hi @Gabriel_Oduori

The info you provided is great; however, you can see that the first image is only a snapshot of the start of the Catalina.out log so it’s not clear what happens after “Deploying web application archive”. Could you share the remaining of the log without including sensitive/authentication info?

Additionally, you’re using:
Ubuntu 23
Tomcat 9
Postgres 14
DHIS2 version 40

Java 11?

If you are using Java 17 then this has been addressed by @tkipkurgat in the weekly server meetup:

@tkipkurgat

If you attempted to set up version 2.41 with the server tools, you likely encountered an issue where it wasn’t functioning correctly. Specifically, there’s been a problem with Tomcat 9 unable to locate Java 17. This discrepancy has presented challenges since version 2.41 requires Java 17.

Finally, another community member recently faced an issue with the installation but it turned out to be permissions issue, please double check that the user has the right permissions:

Error HTTP Status when installing dhis2

Hi, i have done with all the configuration unfortunately when i run the URL i get this error HTTP Status 404 – Not Found . i installed ubuntu 22.04 java 17 and tomcat 9 . Here is the catalina log GNU nano 6.2 catalina.2024-03-27.log - Pastebin.com HTTP Status 404 – Not Found Type Status Report Description The origin server did not find a current representation for the target resource or is not willing to disclose that one exists. Apache Tomcat/9.0.58 (Ubuntu) Please if you can help me, than…

[Gabriel_Oduori]

Hi AL-Gassim,

Thanks for your feedback. That was the entire log file, it appeared that the server got stuck at deploying the webapp. I was on Java 17. I have since reset the machine is setting up another instance of dhis2.

Best, G

[Gassim (AL-Gassim Sharaf Addin)]

You’re welcome so the issue is solved by a restart? Would you explain what was the solution.

Thanks!

[Gabriel_Oduori]

Hi Al-Gassim,

As shown in the screenshot I shared, my server remained stuck at the “deploying web app stage”. After several unsuccessful restarts, I decided to destroy the machine and set up a new server using the same software versions but with the following changes:

1. Upgraded memory to 4GB. Initially, I was running on a 1GM memory.

2. Created a new dhis user using the command:
   sudo useradd -d /home/dhis -m dhis -s /bin/false.

Initially, my dhis user was a sudoer. I highly suspect this is where the issue was.

Thanks,

G.