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11. Running MMBase

Now you are ready to start Tomcat: 

  
  service tomcat start

and access your new MMBase server through (replace <hostname> with your hostname): 

  
  http://<hostname>:8080/mmbase-webapp/

If everything you just did worked out, you should get the MMBase welcome screen where you can change the settings, look at the demos, and install the samples.

When asked for a login use the name admin and the password you just set in the security configuration file /usr/local/tomcat/webapps/mmbase-webapp/WEB-INF/config/security/context/config.xml.

MMBase users (i.e. front-end developers) will typically add their web files to the /usr/local/tomcat/webapps/mmbase-webapp/ directory. Applications (defining the content) will be placed in the /usr/local/tomcat/webapps/mmbase-webapp/WEB-INF/config/applications/ directory.

Caution

Tomcat consumes far more CPU and memory resources than Apache. Make sure the dimensions of your Tomcat/MMBase server system meet these requirements.

Tip

Shutting down (or restarting) the Tomcat server (version 1.6) in our case always left a last process running. If you experience this same problem, kill the process by hand before starting it up again: 

  
  [root@hostname root]# service tomcat stop
  [root@hostname root]# ps -ax |grep j2
  24535 ?        S      4:12 /usr/local/j2sdk/bin/java -server -Xms64m -Xmx512m-Dbuild.compiler.emacs=true ...
  [root@hostname root]# kill 24535
  [root@hostname root]# service tomcat start
  [root@hostname root]#

Tip

You can save the original index.jsp file by renaming it to mmbase.jsp: 

  
  mv -i /usr/local/tomcat/webapps/mmbase-webapp/index.jsp \
      /usr/local/tomcat/webapps/mmbase-webapp/mmbase.jsp

This will allow you to always access the original MMBase home page through (replace <hostname> with your hostname): 

  
  http://<hostname>:8080/mmbase-webapp/mmbase.jsp

In case of any problems, check the Tomcat and MMBase log files in the directory /usr/local/tomcat/logs/ for hints.

>From here, we refer to the documentation on the MMbase website to complete your configuration and start using MMBase: 

  http://www.mmbase.org/docs/

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