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Apache Roller 4.0 - Beginner's Guide

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Apache Roller 4.0 - Beginner's Guide

Overview of this book

Apache Roller enables you to build a fully-featured, multi-user blog server apt for all kinds of blogging sites. It is an ideal tool to create your own blogging network with unlimited users and blogs, forums, photo galleries, and more! While it is exciting to have a list of interesting features it can offer you, it might be a little difficult to get started with it by your self. This book will teach you how to get started with Apache Roller and make the most of all its features using step-by-step, detailed instructions. You will learn how to establish your internet presence with an Apache Roller blog and use the latest web tools to enhance your posts and attract visitors. You will also learn how to promote your blog on popular social bookmarking services and customize it to suit your need. This hands-on and practical book introduces you to Apache Roller. Starting off with the configuration and installation of your own blog, you'll then quickly learn how to add interesting content to your blog with the help of plenty of examples. You'll also learn how to change your blog's visual appearance with the help of Roller themes and templates and how to create a community of blogs for you and your colleagues or friends in your Apache Roller blog server. The book also looks at ways you can manage your community, and keep your site safe and secure, ensuring that it is a spam-free, enjoyable community for your users.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Apache Roller 4.0
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
Pop Quiz Answers
Index

Time for action — modifying the struts.multipart.maxSize property


The struts.properties file is inside Roller's WEB-INF/classes folder. If you are using Windows, you can just open and edit the file; but if you're using Linux, remember you need to have "root" privileges to modify this file.

  1. Go to Roller's WEB-INF/classes folder and open the struts.properties file. Add the following line at the end of this file:

    struts.multipart.maxSize=104857600.
    
    
  2. The following screenshot shows the struts.properties file with the struts.multipart.maxSize property, in a Linux Ubuntu environment:

  3. Save your changes and close the file. You'll need to logout from Roller and restart Tomcat to apply the new size limit.

What just happened?

Now you can upload videos or files up to 100 MB in size. However, don't forget the Max File Size limit in the File Upload Settings section. This setting only allows a maximum size of 8 MB for each uploaded file. Just remember that the setting with the smallest value will determine...