This document is a guide to getting up and running with Fedora as quickly as possible.
System Requirements
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
- Download one of the following executable WAR files
- fedora-4... - no authorization enabled
- fedora-4... - authorization enabled
Either double-click on the download, or run the following command to start Fedora 4
java -jar fedora-4...war
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 9.
Tomcat 7
- Download and install Tomcat
- Copy the Fedora 4 WAR file into Tomcat's "webapps" directory (e.g. /var/lib/tomcat7/webapps)
Jetty 9
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
- Explore setting up an external triplestore