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.
Requirements
- Tomcat 8+ Tomcat 8.5 .5 and 8.5.6 were was rigorously tested, and therefore, recommend one of those versionsrecommended.
- There are known issues with Tomcat 7.
- 8GB of RAM
- 1 CPU
- JDK - refer to http://tomcat.apache.org/whichversion.html for selecting. Tomcat 8.5.5/8.5.6 were tested with JDK 1.7_67, 1.8_60 and 1.8_101.
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- Extract zip files in flat structure using unzip -j (works on Windows and UNIX)
- cd <tomcat lib folder>
- 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.
- Extract zip files in flat structure using unzip -j (works on Windows and UNIX)
- Download the following jars and place them in tomcat/lib as well please.
- jta-1.1.jar
- jackson-core-lgpl-1.9.13
- jersey-bundle-1.18.jar
- asm-3.3.1.jar
- mail-1.4.7.jar
- Oracle JDBC driver matching your version of Java and database. You can download the drivers from the Oracle Technology Network site.
- FDLogFormatter.jar is found in the zip file with the FlexDeploy war. Please copy that file into the tomcat/lib folder as well.
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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