Windows quick-install

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Contents 1 Windows Quick Install 1.1 What you need 1.2 Server Installation 1.3 Client Installation 1.4 Test the installation

Windows Quick Install

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What you need

• Downloaded and install xamplite from http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-windows.html#646

• Download and install java SDK from http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/download.jsp
  • Set Environmental Varible for PATH to C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.5.0_<version>\bin Detailed instructions are at http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/install-windows.html#Environment

• Download the newest versions of the server and client from http://www.synchroedit.com/pub/ for this document we will assume synchroedit-client-2006-02-27 and synchroedit-server-2006-02-27

• Download and install 7-Zip http://www.7-zip.org/ so you can extract the .tar.bz2 files

Server Installation

• Extract synchroedit-server-2006-02-27.tar.bz2 using 7-Zip (You did download and install it, right?)

• Copy the extracted server folder to c:\

• Open command prompt, change directory to c:\server, compile the code by running: javac *.java (if you get an error check that your PATH and CLASSPATH environmental variables are correct, PATH needs to be C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.5.0_<version>\bin as mentioned above and CLASSPATH needs to include the current working directory so at the end of CLASSPATH add ";.")

• Create a c:\Synchroedit directory, inside this directory create a var and a sserve directory.

• Copy all the compiled .class files (It helps if you sort by file type) from c:\server to c:\Synchroedit\sserve

• Copy the synchroedit.rc.sample to c:\Synchroedit and remove the .sample from the end.
  • Edit the synchroedit.rc file (wordpad works well) so that

     requires_authentication = 0
     local_path = /synchroedit/var/
     authentication = /synchroedit/var/auth.tab (This will be used if you want authentication later)

• Test the server by opening a command prompt and changing directories to c:\Synchroedit next type java sserve.Main
  • It will say The instance file /synchroedit/var/devbox.xhtml does not exist. Would you like to generate a blank instance file now? (y/n) Answer y
  • If everything is working right it should say waiting for client connection...

Client Installation

• Extract synchroedit-client-2006-02-27.tar.bz2 using 7-Zip.

• Remove tmpl from the end of disconnected.html.tmpl and seprefs.php.tmpl

• Copy all the files in the client folder to C:\xampplite\htdocs

• Start up apache by running C:\xampplite\apache_start.bat

Test the installation

• Open up Firefox and go to http://localhost/client.html the synchroedit client should come up.

• Press the lightning bolt to connect and then type in a username.