Chapter 2. Installing OpenCms
This chapter walks through the process of installing and configuring OpenCms. In the last chapter, I mentioned that OpenCms can run on a wide range of platforms and configurations; this chapter focuses on the two most common platforms: Linux/MySQL/Tomcat and Windows 2000/MySQL/Tomcat. Generally speaking, installation on other platforms is similar enough for these instructions to suffice. In this chapter, we will cover:
Prerequisites for installing OpenCms
Obtaining OpenCms
Deploying the
opencms.war
fileInstalling OpenCms with the Setup Wizard
Securing the installation
Configuring the client
Troubleshooting the installation
Prerequisites
OpenCms will need a configured database and a functioning servlet engine. We will use MySQL for the database and Tomcat for the servlet engine. Since OpenCms uses the ISO 8859-1 character set, I will explain how to configure Tomcat to use that character set as default. Additionally, I will cover the registry settings that Windows installations...