To install XC-AST, you need:

  • Java 1.4+ working on your machine (if you don’t, download a Java SDK from Sun)

  • A modern JSP/servlet container, like Apache Tomcat 5 or Jetty

*MySQL version 4

These components should be already working before attemping an installation. As these components are quite OS independent, the software should work on most modern operating systems; we have tried it on both a Win32 system and on various flavours of Linux.

If you are using Jetty as the servlet container, there is a detailed recipe here.

Installing

  • Unpack the XC-AST tar archive, look for instructions within xc-ast/WEB-INF/README

  • Deploy the files in the webapp area of your servlet container

  • Download third party modules (see Adding third-party modules to XC-AST)

  • Create the required database (see Creating XC-AST database).

  • Start or restart your servlet container

  • Point your browser to http://YOURSERVER/xc-ast/

  • After you log in, not forget to change the users passwords!