Follow Up: As I predicted the store did not function and I got EXACTLY the same error message as you.

Guess why. Because the instructions were wrong, again.

I finally heard back from support about this problem. There is a line in the fulfillment config file that should look like this:
com.adobe.adept.serviceURL=http://yourdomain.com/fulfillment

Instead the user's guide (section 4.5.5.) shows it this way:
com.adobe.adept.serviceURL = http://.../fulfillment

Note the spaces between the equals sign. These are not allowed. Section 4.5.6 has an identical mistyped line for the packaging server, though this had no apparent effect. I wonder if the line is even necessary for the packaging server. You have to wonder why the status check worked, don't you?

Once I corrected this line I had a fully functioning ACS4 system.

Hi,<br /><br />I like Brandon, have also been tasked with setting up a test environment for acs4.  Using the user manual as a guide, I have run into numerous obstacles and am having difficulties in getting this up and running.<br /><br />I have amended the config.xml page for the sample store so that it contains details got from the Admin Console e.g. the id & shared secret.  when i click on download in the sample store, i too get the following error message:<br /> <error xmlns="http://ns.adobe.com/adept" data="E_ADEPT_URL_SIGNATURE_ERR http://covmphpdev:8080/fulfillment/URLLink.acsm GBLINK_AUTH_SIGNATURE_NOMATCH" /> <br /><br />Can I ask you both......<br />1. How you got the UploadTest-1_1.zip working? <br />2. Where do you run the command: java -jar UploadTest-1_1.jar http://yourdomain/packaging/Package /localpath/raw.pdf -pass yourpassword -xml -jpg  , is it in cygwin tool? <br />3. How do you get a list of books/items displaying in the Admin Console?<br /><br />Any help would be great.<br /><br />thanks,<br /><br />karnesh

Hi Brandon,

Thanks for the information, I have emailed Adobe for the build.xml file so that I can make use of the UploadTest-1_1.zip tool and finally get the sample store working.

It took us a while also to indentify that spaces in config files caused problems.

Again thanks for updating this forum, is proving to be a valuable source of information for us here in the UK.

well guys thanks for the useful information .. but anyone try to re-code GBLink generation in C# i need some help with that

Steve,

I'm using .NET too to generate the GBLink... but it's not quite easy as in PHP code.. anyway I've no luck to make it work but anyway I'm pasting my code maybe it would help you to start implementing yours..

first this is the function that decode the shared secret of the distributor...I've notice that there's extra char of the result of the decoding in .NET code than the result generated in PHP code so i made an extra code to remove this char.. you can remove this part to test it.. i've tested both ways but no luck :(
public static string base64Decode(string data)
{
try
{
System.Text.UTF8Encoding encoder = new System.Text.UTF8Encoding();
System.Text.Decoder utf8Decode = encoder.GetDecoder();

byte[] todecode_byte = Convert.FromBase64String(data);
int charCount = utf8Decode.GetCharCount(todecode_byte, 0, todecode_byte.Length);
char[] decoded_char = new char[charCount];
utf8Decode.GetChars(todecode_byte, 0, todecode_byte.Length, decoded_char, 0);

string result = new String(decoded_char);

// This part removes extra encoded char from the result those extra char not containing
// in the result of the shared secret decoded in the PHP code. you can remove this part
// and return "result" instead of return "x" and test if ot's works with you
StringBuilder x = new StringBuilder(result);
int removeCount = 0;
for (int i = 0; i < result.ToCharArray().Length;i++ )
{
if (Convert.ToInt32(result.ToCharArray()[i]) == 65533)
{
x.Remove(i-removeCount, 1);
removeCount++;
}
}

return x.ToString();
}
catch (Exception e)
{
throw new Exception("Error in base64Decode" + e.Message);
}
}

other two functions that signs the query string of the GBLink "all the stuff after the '?' mark except the '&auth=' itself" with the decoded key generated by the first function, the other function below convert the hashing result to HEX STRING LOWERCASE format as required:
public static string HashingHmacSha1(string message, string key)
{
System.Text.UTF8Encoding encoding = new System.Text.UTF8Encoding();
byte[] keyByte = encoding.GetBytes(key);

HMACSHA1 hmacsha1 = new HMACSHA1(keyByte);

byte[] messageBytes = encoding.GetBytes(message);

byte[] hashmessage = hmacsha1.ComputeHash(messageBytes);
return ByteToString(hashmessage);
}

public static string ByteToString(byte[] buff)
{
string sbinary = "";

for (int i = 0; i < buff.Length; i++)
{
sbinary += buff[i].ToString("X2"); // hex format
}
return (sbinary.ToLower());
}
good luck & have a nice day

Steve,
I followed the PHP code and came with same decoded shared secret and the problem is when using that decoded result to hash the query string it gives me different signature than the PHP code gives me so the fulfillment service always return with signature no match error...
in other way to figure out wheres my problem i've passed simple string as a key and the same query string for both signing functions (PHP & .NET) and give me the same signature so i think the problem in the decoding function.. hope this could help you

Yasser

Thanks alot Brandon you've saved my day :) it's works this way
Yasser

hi <br /><br />I am trying to set adobe content server on my pc to try it , so when i try to pack a pdf using uploadtest-1_1.jar ,I get the following error : Java.io.FileNotFoundException : http://localhost:8080/packaging/package/<br />        at sim/reflect.NativeconstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0<native Method>...<br /><br />Any help would be great. <br /><br />thanks, <br /><br />Robert

Dear karnesh , thanks alot for ur response<br /><br />I followed what is written in the quick start guid<br /><br />here is the command that i use:<br />C:\>java -Xmx1024M -jar UploadTest-1_1.jar http://localhost:8080/packaging/package c:\\srcbooks\lepetitprince.pdf -pass myACS4password <br /><br />the result is:<br /><br />Creating package request for: c:\\srcbooks\lepetitprince.pdf<br />Creating connection to Packaging Server: http://localhost:8080/packaging/package<br /><br />Sending Package Request<br />java.io.FileNotFoundException: http://localhost:8080/packaging/package<br />        at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)<br /><br />        at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source)<br /><br />        at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source)<br />        at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Unknown Source)<br />        at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection$6.run(Unknown Source)<br />        at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)<br />        at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getChainedException(Unkno wn Source)<br />        at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(Unknown Source)<br />        at com.adobe.adept.upload.UploadTest.sendContent(Unknown Source)<br />        at com.adobe.adept.upload.UploadTest.<init>(Unknown Source)<br />        at com.adobe.adept.upload.UploadTest.main(Unknown Source)<br />Caused by: java.io.FileNotFoundException: http://localhost:8080/packaging/package<br />     at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(Unknown Source)<br />        at java.net.HttpURLConnection.getResponseCode(Unknown Source)<br />        at com.adobe.adept.upload.UploadTest.sendContent(Unknown Source)<br />        ... 2 more<br /><br />Finished!<br />Successful packages created: 0<br />Unsuccessful package attempts:1<br />Here are the files that failed to package:<br /><br />-------------------------------------<br />I am totaly new to java <br />should i have a folder "package" in the packaging folder on apache tomcat server where i deployed the packaging.war?<br />the http://localhost:8080/packaging/statuscheck/ return all true<br />I use windows xp pro with sp3 ? do I need windows server for asc4?<br /><br />Thanks in advanced<br /><br />Robert

When I run this I get the following error: Unable to access jarfile UploadTest-1.2.jar

C:\>java -Xmx1024M -jar UploadTest-1.2.jar http://myserver:8080/packaging/
package c:\acs4\srcbooks\MonteCristo.epub -pass park123

I tried creating a package folder under packaging and I stopped and restarted my service but same message.

I had two mistakes. One it didn't exist on the C drive. And the second one was that uploadTest-1_2.jar was spelled incorrectly. -

I get an error with uploadTest-1.2.jar. It says it unable to read file. Contact administrator

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