This document is a guide to getting up and running with Fedora as quickly as possible.

Out of the box

If you are looking for scripted deployments, please take a look at Fedora's deployment tooling.

Installation

There are two primary ways of deploying Fedora 4. The first, One-Click Run, is an easy way to get Fedora 4 running to test out the basic features. The second, Servlet Container Install, is the approach to be used in production installations.

One-Click Run

1. Download the latest executable webapp "one-click-run" from downloads

2. Either double-click on the download, or run the following command to start Fedora 4

   java -jar fcrepo-webapp-<version>-jetty-console.jar

3. Once Fedora 4 is seen to be running at the following URL, start exploring the feature tour

   http://localhost:8080/rest/

   Note, port 8080 is the default. Replace that port number in the above URL if you used a different value.
   

Servlet Containers

Alternatively, instead of deploying Fedora 4 via the "one-click run", the Fedora 4 web-application can be installed by dropping the WAR file into a servlet 3 container, such as Tomcat 7 or Jetty 8.
For details on installing Fedora 4 to those containers, see the Deploying Fedora 4 Complete Guide guide.

Next Steps

Once Fedora 4 is running, 

• Explore the feature tour
• Explore the web-application configuration options
• Explore enabling repository asset authorization
• Explore setting up an external search index