problems when installing kaazing websocket gateway - kaazing

Question

I use windows 7, apache 2.2.22 at port 80 and geoserver 2.1.3 at port 8080.
I download and run kaazing 3.5 msi x64 installer to install it locally on my laptop. I followed the official guidelines from the site. The msi succesfully installed the gateway.
But gets installed in C:\Applications Files\etc. not in C:\Program Filesx68\etc.
Anyhow, I tried to start the services, I ran the demo-services.start.bat and a notification came from windows saying that the Windows Fire Wall has blocked some of the features of java. So I hit "Allow" and wait. Command line says something like
"Sending data to ucd://localhost/50505, ucd://localhost/50506"
for over an hour, nothing happens. So I thought something went wrong with windows and java. I uninstall the kaazing, edit the Windows Fire Wall settings to allow java and re-install kaazing. The notification is not showing up now, but when I ran the demo-services.start.bat, still does nothing, just says the same thing. When I visit
http://localhost/8000
gives an 404 error.
I tried everything, chanching ports, uninstall and re-install a couple of times, installing while not connected to the internet, checking the windows fire wall settings, manually running demo-services.start.bat and gateway.start.bat . The gateway.start.bat actually runs ok and says that the gateway started, but still an 404 error when I visit localhost/8000. Installation through msi is always completed with no errors. But the Gateway does not work. Is it the fire wall, the demos bat file, I dont get it...
Tips/hints?

Answer 1

The first thing to do is get the Gateway running successfully first. So don't worry about running demo-services.start.bat yet.
From the Windows Services application, start Kaazing WebSocket Gateway. Then go to C:\Program Files\Kaazing, locate your installation and look in the log directory. Open error.log using a text editor and verify there are no errors.
If there are no errors, you should be able to open http://localhost:8001 from a browser. (Note, you had http://localhost/8000 in your example, but that last slash should be a colon.) You can use either port 8000 or 8001, but 8001 is where the samples are.
If you are using a firewall or something else that is intercepting ports, then you'll need to make sure ports 8000 and 8001 are accessible.
If you're not sure, start a different server process on port 8000 or 8001 (e.g. configure Apache to listen on port 8000 or 8001) and see if the browser can connect.
The msi succesfully installed the gateway. But gets installed in
C:\Applications Files\etc. not in C:\Program Filesx68\etc.
The Gateway is not an executable itself, but runs in a JVM. Therefore there is no 32bit code which constrains the application to be installed into C:\Program Files (x86). Thus C:\Program Files made the most sense.
You could use a 32-bit JVM which would reside in C:\Program Files (x86), but the Kaazing files are abstracted from that via Java, so C:\Program Files is a reasonable location for the Gateway.
BTW There is a forum on the Kaazing website for Kaazing questions.