Quotero Quick Install
Quotero Quick Install
How to get Quotero installed.
Pre-requisite
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This edition applies to version 2.0 of the Quotero solution.
To run Quotero, you must have:
- an installed database server, as PostgreSQL, MySQL or MS SQL Server
- installation binaries:
- the Quotero Deployer web application (download here: quotero-deployer-2.0.war ),, that you can deploy on an existing instance of Tomcat or Jboss,
- or the Quotero tomcat bundle, containing an Apache Tomcat 6 bundled with the Quotero Deployer web application. (download here: quotero-tomcat-bundle-2.0.zip )
Installation
Copy the Quotero Installer webapp that you have downloaded in the deploy/webapps directory of your application server, or run the Tomcat instance existing in the Quotero bundle archive.
To run Tomcat, run :
- on Unix/Linux Environment : bin/startup.sh
- or bin/startup.bat on Windows
To access to the Quotero Installer interface, launch a web browser and go to:
- if you have downloaded the Quotero bundle: http://localhost:8080/ (the Quotero Deployer webapp is the root one)
- if you have downloaded the Quotero Deployer Webapp : http://yourserverurl:serverport/webappname (by default: quotero-deployer-2.0)
Follow instructions to begin installation.
Database
In the first step, specify your database settings:
- Hostname is the hostname of the database server you want to connect
- Username is the username used by this server
- Password is the password used by this server
- Name is the name of the database that will create by Quotero Installer
- Type is the type of installed database (might be PostgreSQL or MySQL)
Data Paths
Secondly, continue installation by specifying all the required paths needed to store Quotero documents and others.
- Repository Path is used by Quotero to store your documents
- Index Path is used by Lucene to make researches in Quotero repository
- Temp Files Path is used to store various files needed by Quotero client.
If the paths do not exist, Quotero Installer will create them.
Workflow Mailer
The next step is optional, and it allow to configure Workflow Mailer:
- Hostname is the hostname of the SMTP server
- Username is the username used to establish connection to this server
- Password is the password used to establish connection to this server
- Port is the port number of the server (must be between 1 and 65535)
- TLS Auth is the TLS (or SSL) authentication activation (might be true or false)
- Email Address is the Workflow Mailer email in relation to the workflow notification
At this step, Quotero Installer ask you to confirm installation process.
You can cancel it by clicking No or continue by clicking Yes.
Now wait until the end of the installation process.
When the installation process completed, Quotero Installer redirect you to the Quotero log in page at http://localhost:8080/QuoteroClient.
Now you can log in to Quotero.
Temporary default account is already set:
- Username: admin
- Password: admin
For security reasons, you must set a new password for this account after log in. You can also add new accounts later.
You can stop Quotero in a safe way by stopping your application server (refer to the appropriate documentation).
To re-launch the installation process, simply restart your application server and repeat all steps.
Deployment Note
By default, after the Quotero Deployer completed its processes, two webapps are created :
- QuoteroClient : containing the Quotero Web Explorer application (accessible by default on http://localhost:8080/QuoteroClient)
- QuoteroServer: containing the Quotero Server application (accessible by default on http://localhost:8080/QuoteroServer)
JBoss Note
You must manually restart Jboss after the installation.
For any question, or bug reports, please visit http://www.quotero.com and register to the forum.