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These instructions are for installing FlexDeploy on an existing Tomcat server.  If you are installing a new server, see Installing FlexDeploy with included Tomcat for a simplified installation which includes the Tomcat 8.5.11 server.  If you wish to use an existing Tomcat server, or to use a different version of Tomcat, please continue with this installation.

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• • Extract zip files in flat structure using unzip -j (works on Windows and UNIX)
    • cd <TOMCAT_HOME>/lib
    • unzip -j <path to temp folder>/adf-essentials.zip
    • unzip -j <path to temp folder>/adf-essentials-client-ear.zip
  • You should see a large number of jars now in the tomcat/lib folder.
• Copy the jars with the following names from the Tomcat_Complete.zip /apache-tomcat-flexdeploy/lib folder and place them in <TOMCAT_HOME>/lib as well.
  • jta-1.1.jar
  • jackson-core-lgpl-1.9.13.jar
  • jersey-bundle-1.18.jar
  • asm-3.3.1.jar
  • mail-1.4.7.jar
  • ant-salesforce.jar - If you will be using the Salesforce integration.
  • Oracle JDBC driver matching your version of Java and database.  You can download the drivers from the Oracle Technology Network site.
    • Oracle 11g drivers
    • Oracle 12c drivers
• FDLogFormatter.jar is found in Tomcat_Complete.zip /apache-tomcat-flexdeploy/lib folder. Please copy that file into the <TOMCAT_HOME>/lib folder as well.
• If using IBM ClearCase, you will need to copy some jar files from your ClearCase server or ClearTeam Explorer installation to the FlexDeploy installation
  • Copy all of the jar files found in the com.ibm.rational.teamapi_8.0.1.vxxx folder of your ClearCase server or ClearTeam Explorer to <TOMCAT_HOME>/lib. (commons-codec-1.3.jar, commons-lang-2.3.jar, icu4j-4_8.jar, remote_core.jar, stpclientws.jar, stpcq.jar, teamapiextensions.jar, unicodetypemgr.jar, commons-httpclient-3.0.jar, commons-logging-1.0.4.jar, icu4j-charset-4_8.jar, stpcc.jar, stpcmmn.jar, stpwvcm.jar, ucleardiffmerge.jar)

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• Open context.xml for editing. It is located in the conf folder where you extracted Tomcat.
• Add the following text inside of the <Context> </Context> tags. change <password for fd_admin> to the actual password, and if necessary, changing your jdbc url as well.

<!-- Prevent unnecessary warnings in the log.                                   -->
<JarScanner scanManifest="false"/>


<!-- Database Connection for the FlexDeploy Application                                   -->
<Resource name="jdbc/flexdbDS" auth="Container" type="oracle.jdbc.pool.OracleDataSource" factory="oracle.jdbc.pool.OracleDataSourceFactory"              
url="jdbc:oracle:thin:@localhost:1521:xe" user="fd_admin" password="put password for fd_admin" maxActive="100" maxIdle="10" maxWait="60" validationQuery="select 1 from dual" testOnBorrow="true"/>

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• Create file setenv.bat in the tomcat \ bin folder
• edit the file.

set CATALINA_OPTS=%CATALINA_OPTS% -verbose:gc -Xms1024m -Xmx2048m -Doracle.mds.cache=simple -Dorg.apache.el.parser.SKIP_IDENTIFIER_CHECK=true -Dflexagon.fd.repository.root=/opt/flexdeploy/repository -Dflexagon.fd.install.root=/opt/flexdeploy/application -Djava.awt.headless=true -Djava.security.egd=file:/dev/./urandom

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• Create file setenv.sh in the tomcat / bin folder.
• edit the file.

JAVA_HOME=/usr/jdk1.8.0_60
CATALINA_OPTS='-verbose:gc -Xms1024m -Xmx2048m -Doracle.mds.cache=simple -Dorg.apache.el.parser.SKIP_IDENTIFIER_CHECK=true -Dflexagon.fd.repository.root=/opt/flexdeploy/repository -Dflexagon.fd.install.root=/opt/flexdeploy/application -Djava.awt.headless=true -Djava.security.egd=file:/dev/./urandom'

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• Edit logging.properties in the Tomcat/conf folder. 
• Add a new handler to the handlers line (starts with handlers=) by adding an additional handler to the end of the list.

, 5fd.org.apache.juli.AsyncFileHandler

Add the following lines to the file:

.handlers = 5fd.org.apache.juli.AsyncFileHandler


5fd.org.apache.juli.AsyncFileHandler.level = ALL
5fd.org.apache.juli.AsyncFileHandler.directory = ${catalina.base}/logs
5fd.org.apache.juli.AsyncFileHandler.prefix = flexdeploy.
5fd.org.apache.juli.AsyncFileHandler.formatter = flexagon.fd.logging.FlexDeployLogFormatter

org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[Catalina].[localhost].[/flexdeploy].level = INFO
org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[Catalina].[localhost].[/flexdeploy].handlers = 5fd.org.apache.juli.AsyncFileHandler


.level=INFO
flexagon.level=INFO
org.apache.jasper.servlet.level = WARNING
oracle.adf.share.security.level=SEVERE
oracle.adf.share.jndi.ReferenceStoreHelper.level=SEVERE

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