Java (JRE 7)

I'm trying to install Java Runtime (JRE 7) on my account (so that I can run Apache Solr).

I'm getting this error: /lib/tls/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.4' not found.

Can you advise how to fix; or (even better) can you install the JRE on my server?

Installing JRE7 is usually a simple matter:

• Grab the JRE7 tarball from Oracle
• Upload it to your home directory on your WebFaction server
• Unpack it
• Run bin/java from within the extracted JRE directory.

However, your account happens to be on one of our old CentOS4 servers, and the system glibc is too old for JRE7.

If your application requires JRE7, then you'll need to move to one of our newer CentOS5 or CentOS6 machines. If you'd like to do that, please refer to our migration documentation for more information.

Also is there a webfaction help page for Java?

We had some Java docs in the past, when the installation procedure was a bit more complicated, but it's so simple now (assuming that you're on a supported server) that we decided to take them down.