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Installing Contenta S1000D on a Contenta Web server

How to install Contenta S1000D and the LiveContent Preview styles on the server where Contenta Web is installed.

Before you begin

  • Ensure that latest compatible version of Contenta (including Service Packs) is installed and functioning properly before beginning the installation. For more information, see the Contenta installation documentation.

About this task

Procedure

  1. To install on Linux, do the following:
    1. Log in as root.
    2. Mount the installation ISO file by performing the following steps.
      1. From a command prompt, type: mkdir /mount-point (where mount-point is the name of the directory where you will mount the ISO).
      2. Type mount -t iso9660 -o loop cdrom.iso /mount-point (Where cdrom.iso is the name of the ISO file and mount-point is the directory you just created.
    3. If you are running the installation from a remote system, set the display: setenv DISPLAY name or IP address of remote system:0
    4. Type ./install.bin, and then press Enter.
  2. To install on Windows, do the following:
    1. Log in with administrator privileges.
    2. Using Windows or a third-party utility, mount the Contenta S1000D installation ISO file.
    3. Launch install.exe.
  3. Select Next.
  4. Select I accept the terms of the License Agreement, and then select Next.
  5. On Linux only, select Choose to select the Contenta_home directory, and then select Next.
    Contenta S1000D must be installed in Contenta_home directory. On Windows servers, this value is automatically selected from the registry.
  6. Review the Pre-Installation Summary details, and select Install.
  7. When installation is complete, select Done.
  8. On Linux Contenta Web servers
    1. Add JAVA_HOME to Contenta_home/distr/bin/cw.cshrc
    2. Update your path to $JAVA_HOME/bin
  9. On Linux Contenta Web servers that have XPP installed on them, source the following files: Contenta_home/pdm/bin/cw.cshrc and Contenta_home/etcxyvision/xyv.cshrc.
  10. Restart Apache Tomcat.
  11. Navigate to the Contenta_home/web/cw_common/custom/S1000D_Upload directory and check the file size of the S1000D_Catalog.prop file. If this file is zero-length, configure local entities (required to run S1000D Validate). See the Configuring the Upload Tool and other S1000D tools to Use Local Entities topic in the Contenta S1000D user documentation for details.
  12. If you have XPP on the system, verify that the Perl_home directory path contains the bin directory. For example, C:\Perl\bin.
  13. Navigate to the Contenta_home/web/cw_common/custom/S1000D_Publish directory and do the following.
    1. On Windows systems, delete PublishConfiguration_Unix.xml.
    2. On Linux systems, delete PublishConfiguration.xml.
  14. If your Contenta Web server is Linux and you will publish to LiveContent S1000D , edit the PublishConfiguration_Unix.xml file, changing the value of the InstallDir property to the path of your LiveContent installation, for example: /XyEnterprise/LiveContent.
  15. If you plan to publish PDFs and you are running XPP 8.1 or XPP 8.2, navigate to the Contenta_home/web/cw_common/custom/S1000D_Publish directory and open the PublishConfiguration.xml file (or PublishConfiguration_Unix.xml file if your Contenta Web server is Linux). Find the XPP_GraphicFormats property, and remove the bmp, gif, and png graphics file formats from the value. These three file formats are supported in XPP 8.3 and later.

What to do next

After completing the installation, you need to create a Contenta S1000D database.