Problems installing Alfresco Web Editor

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sselvan

I am following http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Web_Editor to install the Alfresco web editor and trying to open the sample application (customer.war) in browser. I am getting this error at that time (when I access http://localhost:8080/customer).

Please help…

HTTP Status 500 -

type Exception report

message

description The server encountered an internal error () that prevented it from fulfilling this request.

exception

org.apache.jasper.JasperException: An exception occurred processing JSP page /includes/body.jsp at line 4

1: <body>
2:    
3:    <h1>
4:       <customer:property nodeRef="<%=mainTextNodeRef%>" property="cm:title" />
5:       <awe:markContent id="<%=mainTextNodeRef%>" title="Edit Press Release" />
6:    </h1>
7:    


Stacktrace:
   org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.handleJspException(JspServletWrapper.java:505)
   org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:398)
   org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:342)
   org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:267)
   javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717)
   org.alfresco.web.awe.filter.WebEditorFilter.doFilter(WebEditorFilter.java:70)

root cause

javax.servlet.ServletException: javax.servlet.jsp.JspException: org.json.JSONException: A JSONObject text must begin with '{' at character 1
   org.apache.jasper.runtime.PageContextImpl.doHandlePageException(PageContextImpl.java:852)
   org.apache.jasper.runtime.PageContextImpl.handlePageException(PageContextImpl.java:781)
   org.apache.jsp.index_jsp._jspService(index_jsp.java:266)
   org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:70)
   javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717)
   org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:374)
   org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:342)
   org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:267)
   javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717)
   org.alfresco.web.awe.filter.WebEditorFilter.doFilter(WebEditorFilter.java:70)

root cause

javax.servlet.jsp.JspException: org.json.JSONException: A JSONObject text must begin with '{' at character 1
   org.customer.PropertyTag.doStartTag(PropertyTag.java:114)
   org.apache.jsp.index_jsp._jspService(index_jsp.java:118)
   org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:70)
   javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717)
   org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:374)
   org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:342)
   org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:267)
   javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717)
   org.alfresco.web.awe.filter.WebEditorFilter.doFilter(WebEditorFilter.java:70)

note The full stack trace of the root cause is available in the Apache Tomcat/6.0.18 logs.
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dmihelj

I was getting the same error until I read this page http://www.benh.co.uk/alfresco/alfresco-web-editor/getting-started/ and did this:

Open up \customer\includes\noderefs.jsp file.  You will see the two node references for sample content items:


<%
String mainTextNodeRef = "workspace://SpacesStore/301a540e-7101-489c-a8a7-859102a99ea5";
String subTextNodeRef = "workspace://SpacesStore/e94797ce-c6e9-47eb-b28c-c6a4eb3ce666";
%>

The two node refs are used throughout the example pages.  Create two example html files on your local disk, add some textual content, and upload these to a location within the repository.  Browse to these files using the node browser, and add the appropriate node references to the noderefs.jsp file.  Save the file and then browse to http://localhost:8080/customer/, and you should see the page rendered and the WEF toolbar.  You should be able to go ahead and edit any of the content items.

Then everything started to work.