Installation

Installing Web Manager

The Java Web Manager is distributed as an industry standard Web Application Archive, or WAR.  The structure of a WAR is such that it can be placed directly into a compliant Servlet container, the container will discover the WAR, unpack it from the archive format and place the resulting Web application into service.

Please consult your Servlet container's documentation for appropriate installation instructions for WARs and Web Applications.

If your Servlet container does not perform automatic WAR installation, then you may be able to install the Web application manually.  The WAR file compression format is actually a ZIP format.  Unzip (gunzip, jar) the WAR and install it into your Servlet container according to the manufacturer's instructions for installation and registration of Web applications.

Java Web Manager will run in most modern Servlet containers implementing the Java Servlet API 2.1 or higher. It has been tested in IBM WebSphere 3.5 on OS/390, OS/400, Windows NT and Windows 2000; in Caucho Resin on Linux 7.2, in Apache Tomcat 3.x on Win98/NT/2000; and Apache Tomcat 4.x on Win98/NT/2000, HP-UX, and Linux 7.2.

If you need to download and install the latest Java SDK and Tomcat versions, follow these steps:

NOTE  If you already have an acceptable version of the Java SDK and Servlet container installed on your server, then skip down to the Installing Web Manager section.

Java 2 SDK

  1. To download the Java 2 SDK, click the following link:

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/download.html

  1. Locate and click the “Download J2SE SDK” link.

  2. Scroll down and accept the license agreement.

  3. Locate your server platform from the list and download the appropriate file.

Tomcat Download

  1. To download Tomcat, click the following link:

http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/index.html

  1. In the left hand column, locate and click the “Binaries” link under the Download heading.

  2. Scroll way down the page until you come to the Tomcat 4.1.30 heading.  The listing is alphabetical.

  3. Download the appropriate Tomcat 4.1.30 file (.zip, .tar or .exe) for you server platform.

NOTE  If you are installing Tom cat on a Microsoft server, we recommend downloading and installing the .exe version (or Windows version) of Tomcat.

Installation

  1. Install the Java SDK.

CAUTION!  The Java SDK must be installed before Tomcat.

  1. Install Tomcat.

Installing Web Manager

  1. Copy the SWM.WAR file (available after downloading and unzipping the CD Image) to C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Tomcat 4.1\webapps.

  2. Start Tomcat (from the icon created at installation time) it will unpack the WAR file and create an SWM folder.

NOTE  Be patient... this may take a while!

  1. You can then start web manager by launching a browser session and entering: http://yourservername:8080/swm/admin

Congratulations! The installation portion of the Web Manager is complete.

Please proceed to the next step: Installing the SEAGULL Activation File.

Next Steps:

Installing the SEAGULL Activation File

 

Related Topics:

Upgrading Web Manager

Accessing Web Manager

Getting Started