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Installing SDL Contenta S1000D on a Contenta Web server

Install SDL Contenta S1000D and the LiveContent Preview styles on the server where Contenta Web is installed.

Before you begin

Ensure that SDL Contenta is installed and functioning properly. See the SDL Contenta Web Installation documentation for more information.

Procedure

  1. To install on a Linux Web server, do the following:
    1. Log in as root.
    2. Mount the Contenta S1000D installation and upgrade 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 a Windows Web server, 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. On the mounted installation ISO file, double-click install.exe.
  3. Click Next.
  4. Click I accept the terms of the License Agreement, and then click Next.
  5. On UNIX servers only, click Choose to select the Contenta home directory, and then click Next.
    SDL Contenta S1000D must be installed into the Contenta home directory. On Windows servers, this value is automatically read from the registry.
  6. Review the installation details, and then click Install.
  7. When installation is complete, click Done.
  8. On UNIX Contenta Web servers
    1. Add JAVA_HOME to Contenta_Home/distr/bin/cw.cshrc
    2. Update your path to $JAVA_HOME/bin
  9. On UNIX Contenta Web servers that have XPP installed on them, source the following files: /pdm/bin/cw.cshrc and /etc/xyvision/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 SDL Contenta S1000D User Guide for details.
  12. If you have XPP on the system, verify that the path contains the Perl bin directory. For example, C:\Perl\bin.
  13. Navigate to the Contenta_home/web/cw_common/custom/S1000D_Publish directory and:
    1. On Windows systems, delete PublishConfiguration_Unix.xml.
    2. On UNIX systems, delete PublishConfiguration.xml.
  14. 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 UNIX). 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 higher.

What to do next

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