Technical environment
Elips is
up to now tested under the following envirronment : ·
WinNT 4.0,2000,XP , Linux, Mac OS X ·
JDK 1.4.1, 1.4.2 , 1.4.3 ·
Apache Tomcat 4.1.30/5.0.19 or or Jetty 4.2.21/5.0 ·
MySQL 4.0,MysSQL 4.1, Oracle 9i, SQLServer2000, MSDE
and PostgreSQL(experimental) ·
Internet Explorer 5.5 and more, Mozilla/Firefox
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Delivery
The
delivery contains the following : ·
elips.war : the application to be put
in Tomcat workspace ·
installation.html : this file ·
createElips<MyDatabase>.sql : databases and
tables ·
exampleElip<MyDatabase>.sql : complete
example reconfigured ·
updateDBFromElips1.3.sql : this file is
used only for the former users of the V1.3 of Elips to upgrade the dabase ·
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Installation
1.
Install the JDK on your server
machine 2.
Install Tomcat or Jetty
on your server 3.
Install your preferred database(MySQL,Oracle,
SQLServer,PostgreSQL) ; sqlserver and
mysql jdbc drivers are already provided under WEB-INF/lib....Put
your personal driver (Oracle, PostgreSQL) here otherwise. on
your server machine 4.
The Database configuration is made entirely by the CreateElips<MyDatabase>.sql
script provided in the downloaded .zip. Use your usual tool
to run the script. 5.
If you want to try a preloaded example, you can load
file in the RDBMS the exampleElip<MyDatabase>.sql 6.
Put the file Elips.war in the
directory /webapps of TOMCAT/JETTY
and restart the servlet server if it is a service. You also can use the Tomcat application manager to add the elips.war to the jsp server 7.
Modify properties through the following
configuration page http://localhost:8080/Elips/config/configurationLogin.jsp
the configuration file
$CATALINA/webapps/Elips/WEB-INF/classes(or src)/org/gyx/elips/conf/Elips.
o
The login/password
are admin/root to be modified for
security pruopose in the configuration page. o
This file may also be modified manually by
experienced administrators, in particular in the case where the configuration
jsp page doesn’t work – it occurs sometimes when several tomcat processes
runs... 8.
Restart Tomcat/Jetty. |
Access to Elips
The
access is simple; go to http://localhost:8080/Elips/index.jsp. To
configure users, projects, ..., you have to go to the administration page
here : http://localhost:8080/Elips/Jsp_BeginEnd/AdminLogin.jsp A
particular user/password named su /root (to be changed after for
security purpose) enables the user to configure the company (company administation
page) and to create administrators, users, company departments, and teams. If
you have not loaded the example, don't forget to do these tasks!!! Dont't
forget to look at the web site for additional information like the
documentation, the faqs, ... at http://opinionplugin.sourceforge.net
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User Authentication on Windows
On
windows , elips provides option of 2 types of authentications (1) using default
ELIPS authentication (2) Using Windows NT
authentication. To use elips
authentication choose ELIPS as the AUTHENTICATION_CLASS variable. ELIPS
authentication uses password stored in company.users table to authenticate
the user. To use Windows NT
authentication service use org.gyx.elips.technical.WindowsNTAuthentificator
as the AUTHENTICATION_CLASS and enter domain names separated by comma in
AUTHENTICATION_DOMAINS variable. Elips will try to authenticate the user
against each domain in the order defined in the AUTHENTICATION_DOMAINS field
in the configuration jsp. It will return true once a domain successfully
authenticates the user, if authenticatation fails in all the domains,
incorrect password message is displayed. To use WindowsNT authentication,
first login into configuration.jsp and select
org.gyx.elips.technical.WindowsNTAuthentificator as the AUTHENTICATION_CLASS
and enter 1 or more valid domain names separated by comma in
AUTHENTICATION_DOMAINS field. Copy NTSystem.dll from WEB-INF/lib directory to
a directory in your path (preferably in %WindowsNT%\system32 directory). Make
sure that tagishauth.jar is also in the WEB-INF\lib
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