Deprecated. This material represents early efforts and may be of interest to historians. It doe not describe current VIVO efforts.
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In the previous step, you defined the location of the VIVO home directory, by specifying vitro.home
in the build.properties
file. If that directory does not exist, create it now.
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What user account owns the VIVO directories?In many operating systems, the issue of file permissions is important. Who owns the files? Who is authorized to read them, or to write new files? When running the VIVO build script, it must have permission to read and write to:
When VIVO is started under Tomcat, Tomcat must have permission to read and write to:
There are several ways to make this work. People who are experimenting with VIVO often use their own account to create the VIVO distribution directory, to run the build script, and to run Tomcat. In more formal environments, it may be necessary to run Tomcat as a service, under its own account. In that case, some people choose to run the build script with
When installing on Microsoft Windows, this is not usually a problem. |
At the command line, from the top level of the VIVO distribution directory, type:
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