Step by Step: Lenya on Windows

Thanks to the Documentation under http://www.wyona.org/download/downloading_and_installing.html i was able to install Lenya on my Windows Box. Since a lot of people are testing on Windows this might be interesting -->This is what i did:

1. Get the last Tomcat Release Binary under http://jakarta.apache.org/site/binindex.cgi (right now its Tomcat 4.1.24)

2. Install Tomcat like described in http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-4.1-doc/RUNNING.txt . Basically this is setting the JAVA_HOME environment variable and double-clicking on tomcat-4.1.24.exe. Decide to run tomcat as a Windows NT/2000/XP-Service.

3. Check if tomcat is running: http://localhost:8080 

4. Stop the Tomcat Service (if you don't know how, try Start > Help > Services )

5. Get the latest binary of ant under: http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi currently this is apache-ant-1.5.2-bin.zip . Extract the zip to C:\Programme\Apache Group\. After this step you got the binaries under C:\Programme\Apache Group\apache-ant-1.5.2 .

6. Set a few environment variables. Mine are:
JAVA_HOME = C:\Programme\j2sdk1.4.1_01
ANT_HOME = C:\Programme\Apache Group\apache-ant-1.5.2
CATALINA_HOME = C:\Programme\Apache Group\Tomcat 4.1
CLASSPATH = .\;C:\Programme\Apache Group\apache-ant-1.5.2\lib
PATH = <snip>;C:\Programme\j2sdk1.4.1_01\bin;C:\Programme\Apache Group\apache-ant-1.5.2\bin

5. Get cocoon-2.1-build-2003.03.11.23.15.tar.gz 
endorsed.tar.gz 
and the latest lenya-dev-src (right now its lenya-0.8-dev-src-20030328125056.tar.gz )
from http://www.wyona.org/lenya 

6. Extract cocoon-2.1-build-2003.03.11.23.15.tar.gz to a directory of your choice (in my example i chose C:\Downloads\lenya)

7. Copy the directory C:\Downloads\lenya\cocoon-2.1-build-2003.03.11.23.15\cocoon-2.1-build-2003.03.11.23.15\build\cocoon (includes three directorys, sitemap.xmap, welcome.xml, welcome.xslt) to C:\Programme\Apache Group\Tomcat 4.1\webapps

8. Extract the latest lenya-dev-src to a directory of your choice (Mine was C:\Downloads\lenya\lenya-0.8-dev-src-20030328125056\lenya-0.8-dev-src-20030328125056). Copy the content of this directory to C:\Programme\Apache Group\lenya-0.8

9. Make a Copy of C:\Programme\Apache Group\lenya-0.8\build.properties.sample to C:\Programme\Apache Group\lenya-0.8\build.properties

10. Edit this build.properties. For the described configuration the following settings will work (don't use backslashes "\" for the paths!!!)

src.cocoon.dir=../Tomcat 4.1/webapps/cocoon
pubs.root.dirs=src/webapp/lenya/pubs

install.dir=../Tomcat 4.1/webapps/lenya

cache.dir=../Tomcat 4.1/work/Standalone/localhost/lenya

11. Open a console:

>cd C:\Programme\Apache Group\lenya-0.8
>ant install

12. Extract the endorsed.tar.gz. Copy the content of this archive to C:\Programme\Apache Group\Tomcat 4.1\common\endorsed

13. Rename the C:\Programme\Apache Group\Tomcat 4.1\common\endorsed\xercesImpl.jar or remove it completly.

14. Restart the Tomcat Service

15. Test: http://localhost:8080/lenya

Feel free to correct my bad english and publish this instruction on www.wyona.org

Regards

Jan Prill