This document is a guide to getting up and running with Fedora as quickly as possible.

Out of the box

If you are looking for scripted deployments, please take a look at Fedora's Deployment Tooling.

Installation

There are two primary ways of deploying Fedora 4. The first, One-Click Run, is an easy way to get Fedora 4 running to test out the basic features. The second, Deploying Fedora 4 Complete Guide, is the approach to be used in production installations.

One-Click Run

  1. Download the latest executable webapp "one-click-run" from Downloads

  2. Either double-click on the download, or run the following command to start Fedora 4

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  3. Once Fedora 4 is seen to be running at the following URL, start exploring the 
     Feature Tour
    
    
    Note, port 8080 is the default. Replace that port number in the above URL if you used a different value.
     
     
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Servlet Containers

  
Alternatively, instead of deploying Fedora 4 via the "one-click run", the Fedora 4 web-application can be installed by dropping the WAR file into a servlet 3 container, such as Tomcat 7 or Jetty 8.
For details on installing Fedora 4 to those containers, see the 
   Deploying Fedora 4 Complete Guide guide.

  
Next Steps

  
Once Fedora 4 is running,