Installing WebSpool on Linux

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These instructions assume that you have already installed the WebSpool library on the System i.

The following instructions were tested on Ubuntu 8.04. Because DataImport requires some Windows components to be installed in order to function, conversions to XLS were not tested.

Step 1:

• Install Sun Java

or

• Install Open JDK (Untested)

Step 2:

• Install Tomcat

Step 3: Download the WebSpool web-app

Rename to .zip and extract the .war file inside.

Step 4:

Copy WAR to Tomcat's webapps directory.

sudo cp ~/Desktop/WebSpool.war /usr/share/tomcat6/webapps

Shutdown and restart tomcat.

sudo /usr/share/tomcat6/bin/./shutdown.sh
sudo /usr/share/tomcat6/bin/./startup.sh

This should create a WebSpool subdirectory in the webapps directory.

Step 5:

Edit the configuration file for WebSpool

sudo gedit /usr/share/tomcat6/webapps/WebSpool/WEB-INF/web.xml

Find all instances of C:\rjstemp and replace with /rjstemp

Step 6:

Create a directory /rjstemp with rwx access for everyone.

Step 7:

Shut down and restart Tomcat, then try the following link:

http://localhost:8080/WebSpool/index.jsp

Please note that WebSpool is case sensitive in this URL.

This article has been proofread by Jordan as of 12:05, 29 May 2008 (Central Daylight Time)