Can't Sync to Controller 2.5 on Raspberry Pi : Error Msg: The path 'file:/../webapps/controller' doesnt exist.

[johan]

I have an existing, working design in OpenRemote Designer and I only needed to create a new OpenRemote Controller based on a Raspberry Pi 2

I installed Jessie Operating System and upgraded to latest version with apt-get upgrade

oracle-java8-jdk was already the latest version installed

I installed Openremote Controller 2.5 in /opt/openremote

I started the OpenRemote Controller via sudo /opt/openremote/bin/openremote.sh start

In OpenRemote Designer, I linked to the correct MAC address of the Controller 

In my Browser, I connected to the OpenRemote Controller via http://10.4.1.74:8688/controller and got the usual dialog box got to enter my login credentials

However, when I try and sync OpenRemote Designer, I get the following error msg:

         The path 'file:/../webapps/controller' doesnt exist.

Any help?

[Stuart Hanlon]

I've had this one quite a lot.

I think it's to do with write permissions.

If I start OR from rc.local it works perfectly.

If I stop and restart it afterwards from a command line, even using sudo sh openremote.sh start, it has the same error.

[Eric Bariaux]

Your resource.path is configured as
resource.path=../webapps/controller
in your config.properties file.

Controller will try to resolve this based on your current working directory when starting up.
So either go to /opt/openremote/bin and do a ./openremote.sh start (or run), either update your config.properties to use absolute path.

[Stuart Hanlon]

Hi

I've just had the same issue with a new installation on an Ubuntu 16, Odroid C2, when trying to start OpenRemote using a systemD service file.

Thankfully this topic helped me to edit the

../webapps/controller/WEB-INF/classes/config.properties

file to set the absolute path :-)

The SystemD method of starting OpenRemote now works perfectly :-)

If anyone is interested, here is a copy of the text from the service file, from /etc/systemd/system

Please note that I setup a SymLink from /opt/OR-Pro to wherever my OpenRemote 2.x instance is located, but the Absolute path within config.properties is that of the OpenRemote 2.x installation

 

#  This file is part of systemd.
#
#  systemd is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
#  under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
#  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or
#  (at your option) any later version.

# This unit gets pulled automatically into multi-user.target by
# systemd-rc-local-generator if /etc/rc.local is executable.
[Unit]
Description=OpenRemote
ConditionFileIsExecutable=/opt/OR-Pro/bin/openremote.sh
After=network.target
After=network-online.target

[Service]
Type=forking
ExecStart=/opt/OR-Pro/bin/openremote.sh start
ExecStartPost=/bin/bash -c "/bin/touch /var/log/openremote.log"
ExecStartPost=/bin/bash -c "/bin/echo OpenRemote  Started $(date) >> /var/log/openremote.log"
ExecStop=/bin/bash -c "/bin/echo OpenRemote stopped $(date) >> /var/log/openremote.log"
ExecStop=/opt/OR-Pro/bin/openremote.sh stop
TimeoutSec=0
RemainAfterExit=yes
StandardOutput=journal+console
StandardError=journal+console

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

   For those that would have to search for the commands for systemd methods, (like I did), here are the highlights.

create the openremote.service file in /etc/systemd/system

make sure it belongs to the root user and group

sudo chown root:root openremote.service

get systemd to reload the service files

sudo systemctl daemon-reload

enable the openremote service, so that it loads at boot up

sudo systemctl enable openremote.service

FYI

sudo systemctl disable openremote.service

will do the opposite

From a command prompt, you can use any of these commands at will.

sudo systemctl start openremote


sudo systemctl stop openremote


sudo systemctl status openremote


sudo systemctl reload openremote

[Jamie Ortiz]

Hello, excuse my newbieness as this is the first attempt at any type of open source for me. I have this same error  The path 'file:/../webapps/controller' doesnt exist. when trying to login and cannot figure out how to get around it. I have linked my Designer to the correct Controller and all.

I am on MacOS

Thank you for any assistance.