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<h2>Installing mapbuilder</h2>
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The design philosophy of Mapbuilder is to minimize the server requirements,
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but for a web application you will need a web server
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to serve your pages at a minimum.
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(The exception to this is for applications that don't need to load XML
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documents from outside the web, in which case you can also load
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your application using the file:// protocol.
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For example, try loading the simple demo by double clicking on the
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index.html file from a directory explorer view.)
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There are 2 server side scripts that may be required, depending on your
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application.
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Applications can be written so that these are not required at all;
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the Simple demo is one example where all XML documents are served from the
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same domain and there is no "save" functionality in the page.
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<li> a proxy script to bypass JavaScript security restrictions when loading
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documents that originate from a different domain than yours.
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<li>a script used to write XML documents back to your server.
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Mapbuilder is available as .zip file for use in a Apache/PHP environment,
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as well as a .war file for J2EE servlet containers like Jakarta Tomcat.
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Installation is generally just a matter of expanding the archive into
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the correct directory.
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All server-side scripts are automatically available by installing the appropriate
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archive.
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More details on each environment are available in the following pages.
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<dt class="title">Tomcat environment:</dt>
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Download the xxx-war.zip archive and extract the mapbuilder.war file to the tomcat webapps
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directory.
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Depending on your Tomcat setup, you may or may not have to restart Tomcat,
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the default tomcat setup will expand the .war file automatically.
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Installation details for other servlet containers may vary.
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<dt class="title">Apache/PHP environment</dt>
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Download the mapbuilder zip file and unpack it into a web accessible directory.
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With Apache this will be the htdocs directory.
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Installation details for other web servers may vary.
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You should then be able to try it out from this URL:
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<a href="/mapbuilder/demo/complete">http://localhost/mapbuilder/demo/complete</a>
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