This How-to is aimed at developers or administrators who want to install Xindice with Tomcat.

The most important prerequisite is patience. Take lots of deep breaths. It will work. It just might take some time.

• You should have already compiled Xindice.
• You must have an existing installation of Tomcat. You should use version 4.1.12 or higher. You can download Tomcat from the Jakarta website.
• Be sure to set the CATALINA_HOME environmental variable to point to the location of your Tomcat installation.

Place holders used in the Steps

• {XINDICE_HOME} - Directory where you have unzipped your Xindice source files.
• {JAVA_VERSION} - Installed JDK Version.

Copy the WAR file

If you've followed the prerequisites, then you will have a working version of Tomcat installed, and the sources of Xindice compiled. Now, copy the xindice-*.war file from {XINDICE_HOME} to the %CATALINA_HOME%/webapps.

Here's what that looks like in Windows:

  > cd {XINDICE_HOME}
  > dir xindice-*
  
   Directory of {XINDICE_HOME}

  09/27/2007  09:24 PM           628,694 xindice-1.2.jar
  09/27/2007  09:24 PM         5,184,315 xindice-1.2.war
  09/27/2007  09:24 PM             1,791 xindice-1.2.xml
  09/27/2007  09:24 PM             6,535 xindice-dom-1.2.jar
               4 File(s)      5,821,335 bytes
               0 Dir(s)   3,745,992,704 bytes free

  > copy xindice-1.2.war %CATALINA_HOME%\webapps\xindice.war
        1 file(s) copied.
      

If you are using Linux, your session might resemble:

  $ cd {XINDICE_HOME}
  $ ls xindice-*
  xindice-1.2.jar     xindice-1.2.war     xindice-1.2.xml     xindice-dom-1.2.jar
  $ cp xindice-1.2.war $CATALINA_HOME/webapps/xindice.war
      

Edit the Tomcat's server.xml File (Optional)

Tomcat will automatically deploy copied war file with the default settings. To modify those defaults, CATALINA_HOME/conf/server.xml file should be edited. Suggested changes for the server.xml file are contained in the {XINDICE_HOME}/xindice-1.2.xml file.

Restart Tomcat

Restart your Tomcat server to be certain that it picks up the Xindice servlet. This step is required if you have edited CATALINA_HOME/conf/server.xml file. In other cases, it is usually not required.

Here's what that looks like in Windows

  > cd %CATALINA_HOME%\bin
  > startup
  Using CATALINA_BASE:   D:\jakarta-tomcat-4.1.12
  Using CATALINA_HOME:   D:\jakarta-tomcat-4.1.12
  Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: D:\jakarta-tomcat-4.1.12\temp
  Using JAVA_HOME:       C:\j2sdk{JAVA_VERSION}
      

Here's what that might look like on Linux

  $ cd $CATALINA_HOME/bin
  $ ./catalina.sh start
  Using CATALINA_BASE:   /var/tomcat4
  Using CATALINA_HOME:   /var/tomcat4
  Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /var/tomcat4/temp
  Using JAVA_HOME:       /usr/java/jdk{JAVA_VERSION}
      

Verify the installation

When Tomcat restarts on Windows, you should see a new window open entitled 'Tomcat', and it should look something like this. (Note the xindice classes loading.)

Nov 21, 2002 1:42:07 PM org.apache.commons.modeler.Registry loadRegistry
INFO: Loading registry information
Nov 21, 2002 1:42:07 PM org.apache.commons.modeler.Registry getRegistry
INFO: Creating new Registry instance
Nov 21, 2002 1:42:08 PM org.apache.commons.modeler.Registry getServer
INFO: Creating MBeanServer
Nov 21, 2002 1:42:09 PM org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol init
INFO: Initializing Coyote HTTP/1.1 on port 8080
Starting service Tomcat-Standalone 
Apache Tomcat/4.1.12
Nov 21, 2002 1:42:21 PM org.apache.xindice.core.Database setConfig
INFO: Database points to D:\jakarta-tomcat-4.1.12\bin\.\db
Nov 21, 2002 1:42:23 PM org.apache.xindice.server.XindiceServlet init
INFO: Database successfully started
Nov 21, 2002 1:42:24 PM org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol start
INFO: Starting Coyote HTTP/1.1 on port 8080
Nov 21, 2002 1:42:24 PM org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket init
INFO: JK2: ajp13 listening on tcp port 8009
Nov 21, 2002 1:42:24 PM org.apache.jk.server.JkMain start
INFO: Jk running ID=0 time=20/70  config=D:\jakarta-tomcat-4.1.12\conf\jk2.properties
      

Here's what the $CATALINA_HOME/logs/catalina.out output looks like on Linux

[INFO] Registry - -Loading registry information
[INFO] Registry - -Creating new Registry instance
[INFO] Registry - -Creating MBeanServer
[INFO] Http11Protocol - -Initializing Coyote HTTP/1.1 on port 8080
Starting service Tomcat-Standalone
Apache Tomcat/4.1
Server 1.6 is running
Press [Ctrl]+[C] to abort
[INFO] Http11Protocol - -Starting Coyote HTTP/1.1 on port 8080
[INFO] ChannelSocket - -JK2: ajp13 listening on tcp port 8009
[INFO] JkMain - -Jk running ID=0 time=4/168  
config=/var/tomcat4/conf/jk2.properties
      

In addition, you should be able to verify that xindice is running by loading this URL in your browser http://localhost:8080/xindice. If it works, you should see the Xindice "List Databases" page which allows you to browse the contents of the database.

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