WebCFG is a web application that needs a servlet container (e.g. Apache Tomcat, Mortbay Jetty, JBoss AS, Glassfish, BEA Weblogic, IBM Websphere) to run. The installation can be done in two ways: the easy way and the expert way. If you don't already have Java and a servlet container installed, chose the the easy installation where all the required software is supplied.

Installation - the easy way

After downloading the WebCFG bundle for your platform (which supplies all the required software like Sun JDK 5 and Apache Tomcat 5), you only to follow the installation notice for your system:

• Windows System (MS Windows XP/Vista/2003/2000)
• RPM based distributions
• Debian distributions
• other linux/unix systems

Installation - the expert way

You installed java and a sevlet container yourself. Now, deploy WebCFG only to your existing and running container

• existing servlet container like tomcat

Configure your installation

After installation is completed, please follow the next steps:

• Configure WebCFG for all kind of systems

• To install WebCFG-bundle, please download and start the WebCFG-bundle-installer.exe.
• If you want to register WebCFG as a windows service (starting WebCFG while booting windows), please mark the corresponding checkbox in the setup.
• Starting "Show logfiles" from the Start-Menu displays the realtime logfile.

Please download WebCFG-bundle-installer.sh and start installation of WebCFG to /opt/WebCFG-bundle:

WebCFG-bundle-installer.sh

If you have to install WebCFG without using a graphical display (X11 windows system), please append "-c" to the installer:

WebCFG-bundle-installer.sh -c

Follow the instructions now.

The following picture belongs to the installation process based on

• microsoft windows (WebCFG-bundle-installer.exe)
• generic unix installation (WebCFG-bundle-installer.sh)