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1. Download the binary distribution from the downloads page
2. Install Tomcat application server (versions 5.5.x and 6.0.x are known to workthe DuraCloud service uses Tomcat 7)
   
   1. Please follow Tomcat configuration detailed on the Building From Source page.
3. Deploy the web applications
   
   1. Take the 4 3 .war files included in the binary distribution and copy them into the "webapps" directory under your tomcat installation.

   2. Start tomcat, as part of the startup process, tomcat will unpack the wars and deploy them

4. Initialize the DuraCloud applications
   
   1. Open the init.properties file found in the distribution package
   2. Edit the values that are contained in brackets "[...]" to be appropriate for your environment. This is the step where most problems tend to show up, so feel free to ask questions regarding what values need to be included in this file.
   3. A few notes on editing this file:
      
      • The value of [host] will almost certainly be: localhost
      • You will need to have your own Amazon S3 account in order to connect. The "username" and "password" in the init.properties file, in the case of Amazon, refer to the Access Key ID and the Private Access Key that are used to make API connections to Amazon Web Services.

      • You probably want to comment out (using '#') the section starting with 'durastore.storage-acct.1', unless you also want to create a Rackspace CloudFiles account.

      • The security user settings at the bottom allow you to indicate the username and password users accounts that can access your local DuraCloud, you'll use these credentials to log in to DuraCloud after initialization

   4. Execute the app-config jar, passing in the init.properties file as a parameter

      Code Block
      java -jar app-config.jar init.properties

   5. The very last line of output from the execution of the app-config process should be "success". If that's not the case, look at the output more closely to determine what error may have occurred.
   This should be it. You should now be able to perform all space functions.
5. Log in to the application by going to http://localhost:8080/duradmin.
6. Congratulations, you are now running DuraCloud!