Hi Jorge, (CC to the mmbase devlist to make it more generally available)
Hereby a small manual on how to install Didactor. Didactor is a java web application, that needs a 'java webserver' to run in (that's tomcat) and a database to store it's information in (that's MySQL). I'll assume you downloaded the package from http://downloads.sourceforge.net/didactor/didactor-2.2.0.zip The first step is to install all required software packages: - tomcat (you've done that already) - MySQL (I believe you already did this too) Then you must create a database within MySQL, and a user that has access to that database. When you install a webapplication in a java webserver like tomcat, you need to deploy a ".war" file (which stands for web-archive). This .war file contains: - the code for Didactor - the frontent templates for Didactor - the configuration settings for Didactor (for instance, the username/password to connect to the database). Because everybody has different configuration settings, the Didactor download package does NOT contain a .war file, but has instructions on how to make one. For this you need the tool 'ant', which you can download from http://ant.apache.org/ In order to put the configuration settings into the .war file, you must edit the 'configure.properties' file that comes with the Didactor distribution. This properties file contains a lot of entries., which you must review carefully. WIth every setting, there is some comment above that tells you what the settings does. By default, the database (jdbc) settings in the configure.properties point to an in-memory-database, but below that there are settings on how to connect to a MySQL server. Put in your MySQL information there. When you finished with the settings, you must remove the last line from the configure.properties file that says: build.nobuild=true Now type the command: "ant" After a few minutes you will have a file called 'didactor.war' in the 'build' subdirectory. This is the file that tomcat needs. See the tomcat documentation about "deploying a web application" on how to install it in tomcat. Hope this helps, Johannes -- Mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.verelst.net Blog: http://keukenhelden.nl/johannes _______________________________________________ Developers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.mmbase.org/mailman/listinfo/developers
