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JotWiki Installation

Generic concept (all platforms)

Jotwiki is a simple java web-application that needs to be deployed to a java application server.
Download: jotwiki.zip is avaliable at

Download JOTWiki from Sourceforge

Requirements

Here is what you need:

A java Dev environment (JDK from Sun) 1.5+

If you don't have java installed yet, or are unsure, see here: Installing java

A Java Application server, ie: jetty, tomcat, jboss etc...

If you don't have one yet, see here: Installing Jetty or Installing Tomcat
Make sure your app server is compatible with your JDK version

A data folder with available disk space (/opt/jotwiki/ or c:\jotwiki).

The default installation folder is c:\jotwiki(windows) or /opt/jotwiki(other platforms).

If you don’t want or can’t use those standard installation locations, you will need to go through a few extra steps first. See: Alternate installation Location

Installation steps

Download jotwiki.zip from JOTWiki on Sourceforge

Unzip it into a temporary folder (it will create the jotwiki_installer folder)

Go in “jotiwiki_installer” and Run the installer (sudo sh install.sh or install.bat)

If you want to install jotwiki to a custom folder(not /opt/jotwiki or c:\jotwiki) you will need to start the installer manually, see: Alternate installation Location

The installer will ask you a few questions and copy some files to the installation folder.
It will ask you the following:

If you are on a unix platform, it will ask, what is the java app server user(user it runs as), this is so that it can set the jotwiki folder with the proper user/permissions so that jotwiki can read/write to it.

Depending on which app server you are using, this user might be something like: tomcat, tomcat55, jetty, web-data or root(preferably not).

It will also ask where your app server “webapps” folder is, this is where web-applications(.war) go, for example for jetty browse to: [JETTY_HOME]/webapps/ , for tomcat someting like /var/lib/tomcat55-webapps/ or /opt/tomcat/webapps/ .

After this is done, installation is complete, go to

http://yourappserver:8080/jotwiki/home
(:8180 on Debian) to get the configuration screens.

see Configuration

Last modified: Sat Mar 08 00:05:11 EST 2008 by