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- SWEET - Semantic Web Editing and Entry Tool
- Institutional Search
- Online help
- Institutional Search (optional, but useful if your institution will not be indexed by eagle-i's central search)Online help
The eagle-i applications run in a Tomcat server. We assume Tomcat is installed and configured to support HTTPS, Tomcat configuration is out of scope for this installation guide. Our reference implementation uses Tomcat 67.
Prerequisites
- Tomcat with the eagle-i repository installed
Locate Tomcat's home directory (usually dictated by your OS) and set an environment variableCATALINA_HOME
, for example:No Format CATALINA_HOME=/opt/tomcat
- Optional: MySQL for search usage logging
- Optional: Jira for feedback
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- Download the SWEET war file from our Software download page (choosing the version you need, usually you will want the latest release) and place in a temporary location, e.g.
/tmp
. Rename the war tosweet.war
and place it in your Tomcat webapps directory:No Format mv /tmp/eagle-i-webapp-sweet-[version].war ${CATALINA_HOME}/webapps/sweet.war
- Make sure the property
eaglei.datatools.repository.url
is set ineagle-i-apps.properties
, to reflect the base address of your repository installation. Note that the URL must be an https URL, for example:No Format eaglei.datatools.repository.url=https://foo.bar.edu
- Restart Tomcat
- SWEET will be available at:
No Format https://foo.bar.edu/sweet
- Log in as one of the test users created as part of the Initial Steps for all Applications and explore the SWEET. You can invoke the user help from the link on the top right hand corner.
Instructions specific to
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Online help
- Download the Institutional search online help war file from our Software download page (choosing the version you need, usually you will want the latest release) and place in a temporary location, e.g.
/tmp
. Rename the war toinstitutionhelp.war
and place it in your Tomcat webapps directory:No Format mv /tmp/eagle-i-webapp-institutionhelp-[version].war ${CATALINA_HOME}/webapps/institutionhelp.war
- Make sure the files
eagle-i-apps.properties
andwhoami.xml
reflect your institution's configuration - Optional: set up a database for logging search activity
- Create a database named
searchlogdb
(refer to the MySQL manual) Uncomment the asynchronous logging properties in - Restart Tomcat
- Institutional search The online help browser will be available at:
Log in as one of the test users created in the Initial Steps for all Applications and explore the search application. The online help is also linked from the SWEET and institutional search menus (top right corner menu)No Format https://foo.bar.edu/insitutionhelp
eagle-i-apps.properties
and eagle-i-apps-credentials.properties
and edit the latter to reflect your database credentialsInstructions specific to
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Institutional Search (optional)
- Download the online help Institutional search war file from our Software download page (choosing the version you need, usually you will want the latest release) and place in a temporary location, e.g.
/tmp
. Rename the war tohelpinstitution.war
and place it in your Tomcat webapps directory:No Format mv /tmp/eagle-i-webapp-helpinstitution-[version].war ${CATALINA_HOME}/webapps/helpinstitution.war
- Make sure the files
eagle-i-apps.properties
andwhoami.xml
reflect your institution's configuration - Optional: set up a database for logging search activity
- Create a database named
searchlogdb
(refer to the MySQL manual) - Uncomment the asynchronous logging properties in
eagle-i-apps.properties
andeagle-i-apps-credentials.properties
and edit the latter to reflect your database credentials
- Create a database named
- Restart Tomcat
- The online help browser Institutional search will be available at:
The online help is also linked from the SWEET and institutional search menus (top right corner menu)No Format https://foo.bar.edu/help
insitution
- Log in as one of the test users created in the Initial Steps for all Applications and explore the search application.
Upgrade procedure
To upgrade the SWEET, Institutional Search an Online help online help, and institutional search applications, follow these simple steps:
- Stop Tomcat.
- Delete the wars from
${CATALINA_HOME}/webapps
:No Format cd ${CATALINA_HOME}/webapps rm -rf sweet* institutionhelp* helpinstitution*
- Download the desired release of the three application wars and copy into
${CATALINA_HOME}/webapps
, as described in the installation sections above. - Refer to the release notes for possible property files changes (this is uncommon)
- Start Tomcat.
- Navigate to the application URLs and verify the updated release number in the footer.
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