See the  Quick Start guide to getting Fedora 4 up and running as quickly as possible.

Although deploying Fedora 4 is as easy as downloading the WAR file and copying to your servlet container's webapps directory, this document details the process.

Downloads

See the latest Releases for Fedora 4 WAR files to download.


Deploying with Tomcat 7

  1. Download and install Tomcat 
  2. Set the Java properties for Tomcat (see: Application Configuration and javaprops sections below)

  3. Copy the Fedora 4 WAR file into Tomcat's "webapps" directory (e.g. /var/lib/tomcat7/webapps)

  4. Start the server
  5. Go to the browser page that matches your fedora 4 WAR file name (e.g. http://localhost:8080/fcrepo-webapp-4.0.0-beta-4-SNAPSHOT/rest)

Deploying with Jetty 9

  1. Download and install Jetty
  2. Set the Java properties for Jetty  (see: Application Configuration and javaprops sections below)
  3. Copy the Fedora 4 WAR file into Jetty's "webapps" directory (e.g. /var/lib/jetty/webapps)
  4. Start the server
  5. Go to the browser page that matches your fedora 4 WAR file name (e.g. http://localhost:8080/fcrepo-webapp-4.0.0/rest)

Catalina Java Properties

fcrepo.home=<some-writable-directory>

Sets the home for Fedora's persisted data. Without this setting Fedora tries to use the current-working-directory as the home of persisted data. If the Tomcat user does not have write access to the installation area (e.g. /var/lib/tomcat7), then Fedora 4 will not deploy. Set this system property to a directory writable by the tomcat process.

JVM Tuning Properties

We have a separate page with suggested Java HotSpot VM Options recommendations for general Java tuning.

Clustering Properties (only effective in a clustered configuration)