Installing the Windows Tomcat bundle

To install the Tomcat bundle, you extract the Studio application, then add the Studio components.

Installing the Studio Tomcat bundle requires the following files from the Oracle Endeca Information Discovery download for Windows (EID24_Win.zip):

To install the Studio Tomcat bundle:

  1. Unzip EID_2.4.x_Studio_portal.zip to the directory of your choice.

    Studio creates a directory called endeca-portal in that directory. For example, if you unzip into C:, Information Discovery Studio installs into C:\endeca-portal.

    It is recommended that you create a directory C:\Oracle\Endeca\Discovery\2.4.0\ to extract the file into.

  2. Extract the .war files from EID_2.4.x_Studio_components.zip and place them into the endeca-portal\deploy directory.

    The .war files go in the root of endeca-portal\deploy. There should be no subdirectories.

    Note: This directory already contains themes, hooks, and layouts required by the portal. It is safe to overwrite these files with the versions in EID_2.4.x_Studio_Components.zip.
  3. If the environment variables CATALINA_HOME or JAVA_HOME are already set, update them to point to your newly installed Tomcat directory and a valid 1.6 JRE.

    For example, set CATALINA_HOME to C:\<path_to_endeca-portal>\tomcat-6.0.35, and set JAVA_HOME to C:\<path_to_endeca-portal>\tomcat-6.0.35\jre1.6.0_21\win.

    If you do not have these environment variables set, you can leave them un-set.

  4. To start the portal's Tomcat instance, run endeca-portal\tomcat-6.0.35\bin\startup.bat.
    Note: Server startup can take several minutes. You can follow the log messages to ascertain when the process is complete. Do not shut down the Tomcat window while Studio is running.
  5. To test that the application is running, go to the portal (http://localhost:8080/) in your browser. Log in using the following default credentials:
    Field Value
    Login: admin@oracle.com
    Password: admin
    For better security, after logging in for the first time, you should probably either:
    • Change the password for this user
    • Create new administrative users for your instance, and then remove this user
  6. Optionally, you can set up log4j logging. log4j provides configurable, Java-based logging in an open-source utility.
    Note: For more information about Studio logging, see the Oracle Endeca Information Discovery Studio User's Guide.