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WSO2 Carbon Installation Guide

This installation guide provides information on,

  1. The prerequisites for running WSO2 Carbon
  2. Installation instructions
  3. How to start WSO2 Carbon, and
  4. How to access the management console
This document provides information on the distribution packages available in WSO2 Carbon - the binary distribution and the source distribution for more advanced users.

Contents

Distribution Packages

The following distribution packages are available for download. 1. Binary Distribution : Includes binary files for both MS Windows and Linux operating systems, compressed into a single a zip file. Recommended for normal users. 2. Source Distribution : Includes the source code for both MS Windows and Linux operating systems, compressed into a single zip file which can be used to build the binary files. Recommended for more advanced users.

Installing and Running WSO2 Carbon using the Binary Distribution

Prerequisites

Java SEDevelopment Kit 1.6.x (For instructions on setting up the JDK on different operating systems, visit http://java.sun.com) To build WSO2 Carbon from the Source distribution, it is necessary that you have JDK 1.6.x version and Maven 2.1.0 or later
Apache Maven- To build Carbon from Source To build the WSO2 Carbon from its source distribution, you will need Maven 2.1.0 or later
Memory No minimum requirement - A heap size of 256~512MB is generally sufficient to process typical SOAP messages. Requirements may vary with larger message size and on the number of messages processed concurrently
Disk No minimum requirement. The installation will require ~125 MB excluding space allocated for log files and Databases.
Operating System Linux, Solaris, MS Windows - XP/ Vista.

Installing on Linux/Unix

The following steps will guide you to install WSO2 Carbon binary distribution on Unix/Linux systems.
  1. Download the WSO2 Carbon binary distribution.
  2. Extract the zip archive where you want the WSO2 Carbon installed.
  3. Set the JAVA_HOME environment variable to your Java home using the export command or by editing /etc/profile, and add the Java /bin directory to your PATH
  4. Execute the WSO2 Carbon start script or the daemon script from the bin directory. e.g. ./wso2server.sh OR ./daemon.sh start OR ./wso2server.sh --start
  5. Access the management console of WSO2 Carbon instance using the URL https://localhost:9443/carbon. (Note that server start up may take time)
  6. Login as "admin" using the default password "admin"

Installing on MS Windows

The following steps will guide you to the WSO2 Carbon binary distribution on the MS Windows operating system.
  1. Download the WSO2 Carbon binary distribution.
  2. Extract the zip archive where you want the WSO2 Carbon installed
  3. Set theJAVA_HOME environment variable to your Java installation, and the PATH environment variable to the Java /bin directory.
  4. Execute the WSO2 Carbon start script from the bin folder. e.g. wso2server.bat
  5. If you would like to install the WSO2 Carbon as a Windows service, use the install.bat script
  6. Access the management console of WSO2 Carbon instance using the URL https://localhost:9443/carbon.
  7. Login as "admin" using the default password "admin"

Building WSO2 Carbon Using the Source Distribution

Prerequisites

Java SE Development Kit 1.6.x (For instructions on setting up the JDK in different operating systems, visit http://java.sun.com)
Apache Maven- To build Carbon from Source To build the WSO2 Carbon from its source distribution, you will need Maven 2.1.0 or later
Operating System Linux, Solaris, MS Windows - XP/ Vista

Setting up the Environment and Tools

Maven: The WSO2 Carbon build is based on Apache Maven 2. Hence, it is a prerequisite to have Maven (version 2.1.0 or later) and JDK (version 1.6.x) installed in order to build WSO2 Carbon from the source distribution. Extensive instructions on using Maven 2 are available on the Maven website. Please refer to the Maven Getting Started Guide for more information on Maven
  1. Download Apache Maven tar ball or the zip archive.
  2. Expand it to a directory of choice.
  3. Set the environment variable M2_HOME and add M2_HOME/bin to the path as well.
  4. Run mvn --version to verify that it is correctly installed.
  1. Download and run the Apache Maven Windows installer package.
  2. Set the 'Environment Variables' (create the system variable M2_HOME and edit the path. e.g., "C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\maven-2.0.6"; path %M2_HOME%\bin)
  3. Make sure that the system variable JAVA_HOME is set to the location of your JDK, e.g., C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.5
  4. Run mvn --version to verify that it is correctly installed.
Once Maven is properly installed, you can start building the WSO2 Carbon.

Building WSO2 Carbon

  1. Download the source distribution, which is available as a zip archive.
  2. Expand the source archive to a directory of your choice.
  3. All the necessary build scripts are included with the source distribution.
  4. You can run the following command inside that directory to build the WSO2 Carbon. Note that you will require a connection to the Internet for the Maven build to download dependencies required for the build.

    Command: mvn clean install
This will create the complete release artifacts including the binary and source distributions in the modules/distribution/target/ directory which can be installed using the above instructions. Note: The first time you run Maven it will automatically download the dependent .jar files. Therefore, the first run will take more time.