Installation pre-requisites

• A windows laptop/desktop or windows server
• If the computer has a previous release of FlexDeploy installed, the installer will uninstall that version, install the new version and perform the database schema upgrade.
  • After installing new version, you may delete the old FlexDeploy software directory.
  • To perform a new install of FlexDeploy, uninstall the previous, remove the previous directory, and drop the FF, FD, and FD_ADMIN schemas in the Oracle XE databases. The installer will then perform a new install.
  • To uninstall any version of FlexDeploy, double click on the "unins000.exe" application in the install location of that version of the software.
• Knowledge of the directory path, TNS listener port, and system password is required to access the existing version of Oracle XE.
• Another installation of GlassFish may co-exist, but must be stopped
• Download FDsetup.exe from the Flexagon Dropbox site
• The installer will ask where to install of the FlexDeploy software. Currently, this directory cannot contain spaces in the name. The remainder of this document will refer to this directory as %INSTALL_LOCATION%.

Installation Instructions

Run the FDsetup.exe file, reading all instructions and questions in the setup wizard carefully as to install FlexDeploy correctly.

After the completion of this setup, the GlassFish server is available with FlexDeploy running.  Enter the following URL into a browser.

http://localhost:6791/flexdeploy/

For further information regarding FlexDeploy and getting started, refer to the FlexDeploy Getting Started Guide located in the extracted file location: %INSTALL_LOCATION%\docs.

Installation Details

FlexDeploy user                    fdadmin

FlexDeploy password           welcome1

Oracle XE                                Installed by user

Oracle XE user                       system

Oracle XE password              User defined

Oracle XE port                       User defined (normally 1521 by default)

GlassFish                                %INSTALL_LOCATION%\gf3

GlassFish logs                        %INSTALL_LOCATION%\gf3\glassfish\domains\domain1\logs

GlassFish start                       FlexDeploy-3.5 (Start Server) icon in start menu

GlassFish stop                        FlexDeploy-3.5 (Stop Server) icon in start menu

GlassFish admin                    http://localhost:4848

GlassFish user                       admin

GlassFish password              welcome1

JDK1.7.0_67                           %INSTALL_LOCATION%\java

Documentation                      %INSTALL_LOCATION%\docs

Install Logs                            %INSTALL_LOCATION%\install.log

FlexDeploy Install Root        %INSTALL_LOCATION%\application

Uploaded Plugins                  %INSTALL_LOCATION%\application\uploadedplugins

Artifact Repository               %INSTALL_LOCATION%\repository

Debug Information

Information for each step of the FlexDeploy installation gets redirected to the install logs for reference and debugging if needed.

If the installation fails after the validation step (#1), and the install.log file has the message “FlexDeploy already exists on file system”, perform the following steps in order:

1.      Make sure that the %INSTALL_LOCATION% directory doesn’t exist on the laptop/desktop/server.  This is a pre-requisite stated above.

2.      Drop the FF, FD, and FD_ADMIN users from the Oracle XE database

3.      Uninstall FlexDeploy-3.5 from laptop/desktop/server

4.      Delete \FlexDeploy-3.5 directory, including all subdirectories

If the installation fails at any point after the installing the database objects step (#3), then perform the following steps in order:

1.      Check the install.log file for information on the installation problem

2.      Drop the FF, FD, and FD_ADMIN users from the Oracle XE database

3.      Uninstall FlexDeploy-3.5 from laptop/desktop/server

4.      Delete remaining FlexDeploy-3.5 directory and all sub-directories

5.      Retry installation of FlexDeploy-3.5 after adjustments for error in install logs are made

If you need to restart the glassfish server, go to your start menu and find FlexDeploy-3.5 in your installed programs/applications, and perform the following steps:

1.      Click ‘FlexDeploy-3.5 (Stop Server)’ icon

2.      Click ‘FlexDeploy-3.5 (Start Server)’ icon