Installing the Portal

A brief guide

This link gives access to the latest war files.

  • Deploy the astrogrid-portal-base.war to Tomcat in the usual way.
  • Stop tomcat
  • Then take each subcomponent astrogrid-portal-*.war in turn and unzip it over the top of the webapp's folder in Tomcat.
  • Alternatively, deploy astrogrid-portal.war instead. This consists of the base project and all of the sub-pages.
  • Restart Tomcat
*NOTE* As of today (30/3/04) the portal must be deployed to a webapp named "astrogrid-portal". It is anticipated that this restriction will be removed soon.

Building the Portal

Prequisites

Building

After checking out all the files, cd to the root portal directory and execute maven astrogrid-build-snapshot to generate the war files. To generate the documentation execute maven astrogrid-build-site Note to Windows users: There is a bug in Maven which prevents the portal building under Windows - you'll simply get an UnknownHostException. To build under Windows you'll first need to patch Maven - see http://forum.astrogrid.org/read.php?TID=681 .