Installation Instructions for Coral8 Engine
Microsoft Windows
Note for the Microsoft Vista users: Coral8 for Microsoft Vista must be installed and run from an account which has full administrative privileges. Please use default installation folders.
Download either the zip or exe format of the installation files from the Download page. The zip files need to be unzipped after they are downloaded, before they can be run. Run the installation programs, following the installation wizards. Accept all default settings. Once installation is done, you should have an icon on your desktop for each program you installed.
To get started with Coral8, first start the Coral8 Server (double-click on the Coral8 Server desktop icon), then start the Coral8 Studio (double-click on the Coral8 Server desktop icon). The Coral8 Studio will automatically try to connect to the Coral8 Server when Coral8 Studio starts up.
Linux and Solaris
- Download and unpack the installation tar-files using the tar command:
$ tar xvfz coral8-server-5.1.1-*.tar.gz $ tar xvfz coral8-studio-5.1.1-*.tar.gz
- Configure the Coral8 Server (see the coral8/install-server.sh file for more details):
$ sh ./coral8/install-server.sh
- Start the Coral8 Server using the following command:
$ ./coral8/server/coral8-server.rc start
- Start the Coral8 Studio using the following command:
$ ./coral8/studio/coral8-studio.sh
Installation Instructions for Coral8 Portal
Prerequisites
- Java SDK 1.5
- MySQL® version 5.x
- MySQL® Connector/J
- Web Browser (Mozilla Firefox 2.0 or Internet Explorer 7.0 or later)
- Latest Coral8 Engine version from the Download page
Microsoft Windows
Download the zip format of the installation file from the Download page. The zip file needs to be unzipped after it is downloaded, before it can be run. Run the installation program, following the installation wizards. Once installation is done, start the Coral8 Server (double-click on the Coral8 Server desktop icon). Start the Coral8 Portal by using startup.bat file from the
Linux and Solaris
- Download and unpack the installation tar-files using the tar command:
$ tar xvfz coral8-portal-5.1.3.tar.gz
- Configure the Coral8 Portal:
$ sh ./coral8/portal/install.sh
- Start the Coral8 Server using the following command:
$ ./coral8/server/coral8-server.rc start - Start the Coral8 Portal using the following command:
$ ./coral8/portal/bin/startup.sh
- Point your Web browser to the http://host-name:host-port/ , where
is the name of the machine where the Coral8 Portal was installed, and host-port is the port you specified during installation.
