Knowledge Base - FAQ
Question: How do I install OpenCms?OpenCms (as of version 8.0.1) was designed to work with Tomcat 5.5. Newer versions of Tomcat will likely work but you may run into some problems. The initial install uses around 230MB of memory and uses around 400MB of disk space so having a corporate level account or higher is highly recommended. 1) Email support@kattare.com or call us to request the following for the setup. a) A new database for OpenCms b) MAC address of your webserver c) Your MySQL server host name (if you don't already know it) 2) Download the OpenCms zip ( http://www.opencms.org/en/download/opencms.html ) From the SSH shell you can use wget with the direct link to the download. user@webserver:~$ wget http://www.opencms.org/downloads/opencms/opencms_8.0.1.zip Note: You should download the latest stable release, 8.0.1 is the latest stable when this FAQ entry was made. 3) Unzip the opencms.war from the zip file user@webserver:~$ unzip opencms_8.0.1.zip 4) Move the opencms.war file into the appBase for your domain. user@webserver:~$ mv opencms.war mydomain_com-webapps/ 5) Tomcat should automatically deploy this war so you should now be able to access the setup wizard with something like the following http://mydomain.com/opencms/setup/ 6) During the database setup step enter your database username and password in both the setup and user fields and the newly created database as the database name. For the JDBC url you will need to replace localhost with your database server name such as dc2-mysql-04.kattare.com. When the setup process asks you to drop the already created database answer yes. 7) Proceed with the rest of the setup! Once OpenCms starts importing modules it will take some time so have patience. 8) Read the security issues section of the official installation instructions found here. http://www.opencms.org/en/development/installation/server.html
Last Modified: Jul 05, 2011