Now you are ready to start Tomcat:
service tomcat start
and access your new MMBase server
through
(replace <hostname> with your hostname):
http://<hostname>:8080/mmbase-webapp/
If everything you just did worked out, you should get the MMBase welcome screen where you can change the settings, look at the demos, and install the samples.
When asked for a login use the name
admin
and the password
you just set in the security configuration file
/usr/local/tomcat/webapps/mmbase-webapp/WEB-INF/config/security/context/config.xml.
MMBase users
(i.e. front-end developers) will typically add their web files to
the /usr/local/tomcat/webapps/mmbase-webapp/ directory.
Applications (defining the content) will be placed in
the
/usr/local/tomcat/webapps/mmbase-webapp/WEB-INF/config/applications/
directory.
Caution
Tomcat consumes far more CPU and memory resources than Apache. Make sure the dimensions of your Tomcat/MMBase server system meet these requirements.
Tip
Shutting down (or restarting) the Tomcat server (version 1.6) in our case always left a last process running. If you experience this same problem, kill the process by hand before starting it up again:
[root@hostname root]# service tomcat stop [root@hostname root]# ps -ax |grep j2 24535 ? S 4:12 /usr/local/j2sdk/bin/java -server -Xms64m -Xmx512m-Dbuild.compiler.emacs=true ... [root@hostname root]# kill 24535 [root@hostname root]# service tomcat start [root@hostname root]#
Tip
You can save the original index.jsp file
by renaming it to mmbase.jsp:
mv -i /usr/local/tomcat/webapps/mmbase-webapp/index.jsp \
/usr/local/tomcat/webapps/mmbase-webapp/mmbase.jsp
This will allow you to always access the original MMBase home page through
(replace <hostname> with your hostname):
http://<hostname>:8080/mmbase-webapp/mmbase.jsp
In case of any problems,
check the Tomcat
and MMBase log files
in the directory
/usr/local/tomcat/logs/
for hints.
>From here, we refer to the documentation on the MMbase website to complete your configuration and start using MMBase:
http://www.mmbase.org/docs/