Installation and Configuration Instructions

Software requirements:

Web-SynDic requires Java 1.4 or later (http://java.sun.com/) and Jakarta Tomcat 4.1.x or 5.0.x. (http://jakarta.apache.org/).

Web-SynDic distribution:

The Web-SynDic software consists of the platform-independent part and external solving and generation programs. You will need the versions of these programs compiled for your platform.

Installation instructions:

To install Web-SynDic into Jakarta Tomcat server, copy the Web-SynDic directory or rar archive into the Tomcat's webapps directory. Also, you may use the Tomcat Web Application Manager included with the Jakarta Tomcat to install Web-SynDic into the running server. For more details see the Jakarta Tomcat documentation.

Configuration:

Web-SynDic supports the following context parameters:

solver_spooler.path, generator_spooler.path

: path to the external programs directories.

datastore.path

: path to the data store directory, where user accounts and limits are stored.

admin_email

: administrator's email for user notes and bug reports.

server.cpu, server.ram, server.os, server.nice, server.java

: server information to be displayed in the report pages.

You may define the context parameters in the WEB-INF/web.xml file in the following format:

<context-param>
<param-name>parameter name</param-name>
<param-value>parameter value</param-value>
</context-param>

Jakarta Tomcat 5.0 compatibility issues:

At this moment sending notes subsystem is not working correctly under Tomcat 5.0. It ignores configuration of ``mail/Session'' JNDI resource in ${TOMCAT_HOME}/conf/server.xml and uses ``localhost'' as SMTP server by default.