Installing

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GnuMims is a web application built with the Grails web framework.
Once installed to a server all user access is via a web browser (IE, Firefox etc) so there are no installation requirements for user machines.

There are two ways to get gnuMims running:

1. Download a prepared WAR file and deploy to a Java Servlet (as detailed bellow).
2. Download the source code and build a custom WAR with Grails (see the Developer Start Page for this option).

Note: the online ​Demo provides the easiest way to take gnuMims for a test run.

Requirements

• Java servlet.
  • We currently use Tomcat-5.5.
• Sun Java SDK.
  • We currently use "1.5.0_17" (Debian Lenny: sun-java5-jdk).
• Database.
  • The development WAR is configured to use an in memory database (HSQLDB).
    • This will NOT save data between restarts!
    • But has the advantage that no database setup is required, this is what the online demo runs.
    • May be handy to check that the Java server is working.
  • The production WAR is configured to use MySQL.
    • We currently use "5.0.51" (Debian Lenny: mysql-server-5.0)
    • See MySQL Configuration Guide.
  • For other database options please see the Changing the Database.

WAR Deployment Steps

A server with Tomcat and a Java servlet can be a tricky thing to setup.
If you are not experienced with these things please contact us for help!
By all means have a go if you are keen but contact us well BEFORE severe hair loss occurs ;-)
We would rather help than have you give up and miss out on a great application.

• Copy the war file to [$TOMCAT_HOME]/webapps/gnuMims.war or choose to upload through the Tomcat online console.
• Point your web browser to http://localhost:8180/gnuMims/ or http://myserver:port/gnuMims.
• Restart Tomcat if required.
• The exact case and name of the war file must match the address.
• Login with the user name "admin" and password "pass".

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