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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 6.


Prerequisites

  • Tomcat with the eagle-i repository installed
    Locate Tomcat's home directory (usually dictated by your OS) and set an environment variable  CATALINA_HOME, for example:
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    CATALINA_HOME=/opt/tomcat
    
  • Optional: MySQL for search usage logging
  • Optional: Jira for feedback


Installation Procedure

Initial steps for all applications

  1. Create a few repository users
    Log in as an administrator to your eagle-i repository, e.g. if your server is foo.bar.edu, the URL of the repository admin is: https://foo.bar.edu/repository/admin . Navigate to the Manage User Accounts page and create the following users:
    1. an anonymous user with no roles, to be used by the search application
    2. a sample user with Resource Navigator role (to collect data)
    3. a sample user with Curator role (to curate and publish data)
  2. Create eagle-i application home and configuration directory
    Create a directory to place eagle-i application data and configuration files. You may want to reuse part of the path used when installing the eagle-i repository. For example, if you installed the repository in /opt/eaglei/repo
    Code Block
    mkdir /opt/eaglei/conf
    
  3. edit catalina.properties
    Open the file ${CATALINA_HOME}/conf/catalina.properties in your favorite text editor.
    Add the eagle-i configuration directory to the common class loader. Note that catalina.properties should already have a common.loader definition, you only need to add the eagle-i configuration directory, for example:
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    common.loader=/opt/eaglei/conf,${catalina.base}/lib,...
    
    Add the definition of the eagle-i home property, where the conf directory was created. This needs to be the full path, without using variables, for example:
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    org.eaglei.home=/opt/eaglei
    


Property and configuration files

The following three files are necessary to configure the eagle-i applications:

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Download the samples from the examples directory and edit to reflect your environment. Please pay attention to the instructions in the file. Place the three files in the configuration directory (defined in step 1 of the the Initial Procedure for all Applications section)


Instructions specific to SWEET

  1. 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 to sweet.war and place it in your Tomcat webapps directory:
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    mv /tmp/eagle-i-webapp-sweet-[version].war ${CATALINA_HOME}/webapps/sweet.war
    
  2. Make sure the property eaglei.datatools.repository.url is set in eagle-i-apps.properties, to reflect the base address of your repository installation. Note that the URL must be an https URL, for example:
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    eaglei.datatools.repository.url=https://foo.bar.edu
    
  3. Restart Tomcat
  4. SWEET will be available at:
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    https://foo.bar.edu/sweet
    
  5. 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 Institutional Search

  1. Download the 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 to institution.war and place it in your Tomcat webapps directory:
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    mv /tmp/eagle-i-webapp-institution-[version].war ${CATALINA_HOME}/webapps/institution.war
    
  2. Make sure the files eagle-i-apps.properties and  whoami.xml reflect your institution's configuration
  3. Optional: set up a database for logging search activity
    1. Create a database named searchlogdb (refer to the MySQL manual)
    2. Uncomment the asynchronous logging properties in  eagle-i-apps.properties and eagle-i-apps-credentials.properties and edit the latter to reflect your database credentials
  4. Restart Tomcat
  5. Institutional search will be available at:
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    https://foo.bar.edu/insitution
    
  6. Log in as one of the test users created in the Initial Steps for all Applications and explore the search application.


Instructions specific to Online help

  1. Download the 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 to help.war and place it in your Tomcat webapps directory:
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    mv /tmp/eagle-i-webapp-model-[version].war ${CATALINA_HOME}/webapps/help.war
    
  2. Restart Tomcat
  3. The online help browser will be available at: 
    Code Block
    https://foo.bar.edu/help
    
    The online help is also linked from the SWEET and institutional search menus (top right corner menu)


Upgrade procedure

To upgrade the SWEET, Institutional Search an Online help applications, follow these simple steps:

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