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| <td align="left" width="60%"><font class="indextop">infocenter<br> |
| setup</font><br> |
| <font class="indexsub">installing infocenter web application |
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| <td>You can enable users to access the help system over |
| the Internet or an intranet, by installing the help system web application |
| on a web server. Users open a URL in the web browser, which results in |
| help system displayed. The infocenter help system can be also used for client |
| applications and for web applications, that wish to have their help accessed |
| remotely. All features except infopops and active help are supported.<br> |
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| The instructions provided go over installing and configuring the |
| infocenter application. Steps are provided for IBM WebSphere |
| Application Server 4.0.3 Advanced Edition Single Server, and Apache |
| Tomcat 4.0.4 on Windows. Other servers should be similar.<br> |
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| bgcolor="#0080c0"><b><font color="#ffffff" face="Arial,Helvetica">1. Install |
| Eclipse</font></b></td> |
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| <td> Download Eclipse SDK or Platform |
| Runtime Binary from <a |
| href="http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/">http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/</a>. |
| Unzip Eclipse on a system. The directory called "<tt>eclipse</tt>" |
| will be created. Documentation contributed by plugins in Eclipse |
| installation will be made available for remote browsing. Let us assume |
| you unzipped Eclipse to "<tt>d:\</tt>".<br> |
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| bgcolor="#0080c0"><b><font color="#ffffff" face="Arial,Helvetica">2. Download |
| Infocenter</font></b></td> |
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| <td> Download Eclipse Infocenter from the same page you downloaded the eclipse driver in Step 1. Create a directory "infocenter" on your system and unzip the |
| infocenter driver. Let us assume that this directory is "<tt>d:\infocenter\</tt>". The directory should contain a web module (.WAR file) and the legal documents.<br> |
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| bgcolor="#0080c0"><b><font color="#ffffff" face="Arial,Helvetica">3. Register |
| URL handlers with the server</font></b></td> |
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| <b>WebSphere Application Server</b> |
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| <blockquote>Log into the Administrative Console, expand Nodes -> |
| HOSTNAME -> Application Servers -> Default Server -> Process Definition, |
| select "JVM Settings" in the tree. On JVM Settings form, type "<tt>D:\eclipse\plugins\org.eclipse.help.webapp_2.0.1\eclipseurl.jar</tt>" |
| in the Classpath field. Click OK button.</blockquote> |
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| <b>Tomcat</b> |
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| <blockquote> Edit TOMCAT_HOME\bin\setclasspath.bat file and after the |
| line:<br> |
| <tt>set CLASSPATH=%JAVA_HOME%\lib\tools.jar</tt><br> |
| insert the line:<br> |
| <tt>set CLASSPATH=%CLASSPATH%;D:\eclipse\plugins\org.eclipse.help.webapp_2.0.1\eclipseurl.jar<br> |
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| </tt> </blockquote> |
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| bgcolor="#0080c0"><b><font color="#ffffff" face="Arial,Helvetica">4. Point |
| Infocenter application to the Eclipse installation</font></b></td> |
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| <b>WebSphere Application Server</b> |
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| <blockquote>Open the WAR file in <tt>d:\infocenter\" using Application Assembly Tool<br> |
| Select Context Parameters in the tree<br> |
| Set the value of ECLIPSE_HOME parameter to <tt>D:\eclipse</tt><br> |
| click Apply, and save the application archive.</blockquote> |
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| <b>Tomcat</b> |
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| <blockquote>Create a <tt>help</tt> subdirectory, <tt>d:\infocenter\help\</tt><br> |
| Unjar the WAR file from <tt>d:\infocenter</tt> into the "help" subdirectory. |
| directory<br> |
| In the file WEB-INF/web.xml replace lines<br> |
| <tt> |
| <param-name>ECLIPSE_HOME</param-name><br> |
| <param-value></param-value></tt><br> |
| with<br> |
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| <param-name>ECLIPSE_HOME</param-name><br> |
| <param-value>D:/eclipse</param-value></tt><br> |
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| bgcolor="#0080c0"><b><font color="#ffffff" face="Arial,Helvetica">5. Deploy |
| the application on the server</font></b></td> |
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| <b>WebSphere Application Server</b> |
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| <blockquote>In WebSphere Administrative Console, expand Nodes -> |
| HOST_NAME, select Enterprise Applications in the tree, click Install.<br> |
| Browse the Path to select location of the downloaded |
| WAR file<br> |
| Edit the following two fields as follows:<br> |
| Application Name : <tt>Eclipse Infocenter</tt><br> |
| Context Root : <tt>help</tt><br> |
| Leave the bottom section of the install from blank.<br> |
| Click Next, Next, Finish.<br> |
| Click Save in the Console header, click OK.<br> |
| Expand Nodes -> HOST_NAME -> Application Servers, |
| select Default Server.<br> |
| Click Web Server Plug-In Configuration link, click |
| Generate.<br> |
| Restart the server.<br> |
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| <b>Tomcat</b> |
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| <blockquote>Copy the directory created in step 4 (<tt>d:\infocenter\help</tt>) to |
| <tt>D:\jakarta-tomcat-4.0.4\webapps</tt>. |
| If you use jdk1.4 to run Tomcat, you need to delete file <tt>D:\jakarta-tomcat-4.0.4\common\lib\xerces.jar </tt> |
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| Restart the server.<br> |
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| bgcolor="#0080c0"><b><font color="#ffffff" face="Arial,Helvetica">6. Point |
| a web browser to the path of the web application.</font></b></td> |
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| <b>WebSphere</b> |
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| <blockquote>Open the following URL <tt>http://localhost/help/</tt> or |
| <tt>http://localhost:9080/help/</tt>.<br> |
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| <b>Tomcat</b> |
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| <blockquote>Open the following URL <tt>http://localhost:8080/help/</tt>.</blockquote> |
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