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These instructions are for installing FlexDeploy in a standalone Tomcat server.  If you are installing a new server, see Installation for Tomcat (included) for a simplified installation which includes the Tomcat 8.5.5 server.  If you wish to use an existing Tomcat server, or to use a different version of Tomcat, please continue with the standalone installation.

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    • Extract zip files in flat structure using unzip -j (works on Windows and UNIX)
      • cd <tomcat lib folder>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.
  • Download the following jars Copy the jars with the following names from the FlexDeploy-Tomcat.zip file /apache-tomcat-flexdeploy/lib folder and place them in tomcat<TOMCAT_HOME>/lib as  as well please.
  • FDLogFormatter.jar is found in the zip file with the FlexDeploy war. Please copy that file into the tomcat/lib folder as well.
  • If using IBM ClearCase, you will need to copy the following jar files from your ClearCase server into <TOMCAT_HOME>/lib
    • The jar files can be located in the com.ibm.rational.teamapi_8.0.1.vxxx folder of your ClearCase server. 
  • If you will be using the Salesforce integration, 

Configure context.xml

  • 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.

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  • Put the flexdeploy.war file into the webapps folder. It is found in the FlexDeploy-Tomcat.zip file /apache-tomcat-flexdeploy/webapps folder.
  • If you will be using the Salesforce integration, copy ant-salesforce.jar from the FlexDeploy-Tomcat.zip file /apache-tomcat-flexdeploy/lib folder and place it in <TOMCAT_HOME>/lib

  • Start Tomcat.
    • Unix
      • cd <tomcat install>/bin
      • ./startup.sh
    • Windows
      • Double click startup.bat in the <tomcat install>\bin folder.