Hi,

> On 17 Mar 2016, at 09:00, abtv <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I have xwiki enterprise with Postgres as db backend. Right now I'm using the
> following: 
> 1. Download
> http://download.forge.ow2.org/xwiki/xwiki-enterprise-web-7.4.1.war unzip it
> and put it under Jetty.
> 2. Change config files to use Postgres.
> 3. Download
> http://download.forge.ow2.org/xwiki/xwiki-enterprise-ui-mainwiki-all-7.4.1.xar
> 4. Run xwiki 
> 5. Import xwiki-enterprise-ui-mainwiki-all-7.4.1.xar via UI.

Step 3 and 5 should be removed. XWiki will pop up the Distribution Wizard to 
perform to install the UI, see
http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Features/DistributionWizard

May I ask you where you found the instructions to import the XAR file? (I’d 
like to fix it if it’s in our instructions somewhere)?

> I wonder if it's possible to make step 5 (import xar file) via API (don't
> use UI for it). I would like to simplify xwiki deployment.

Right now no. See 
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/36029418/is-there-any-api-to-automate-extension-installation-in-xwiki

> What I've already done:
> I automated spaces/pages creation via REST API. I think there should be some
> way to automate extension installation. I've found XFF REST API
> http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/XFF+REST+API . Is it
> possible to use it to install xar files with extensions? Maybe there are
> other ways? 
> 
> I would appreciate any help. Thanks in advance!

Are you the person who asked on SO? :)

Thanks
-Vincent
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