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   These installation instructions are meant for a systems administrator/DBA
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   or someone who is an advanced computer user.  They are NOT meant for
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   the average computer user.  Please realize that by executing these
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   instructions, you may have to trouble shoot many advanced issues yourself.
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<td class="tablehead" colspan="2"><p>Pre-Installation</p></td>
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  <p class="header">Minimum Requirements</p>
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  <p>
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   Installing Metacat requires a server running an SQL92 compliant database
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   (Oracle 8i recommended) with at least 128MB RAM, and a Pentium III class
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   processor or higher.  The amount of disk space required depends on the
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   size of your RDBMS tablespace (which should be at least 10 MB,
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   however Metacat itself requires only about 1 MB of free space after
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   installation.  These instructions assume a Linux environment but may
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   work on other UNIX type environments, however this has not been tested.
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  <p class = "header">Additional Required Software</p>
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   The server on which you wish to install Metacat must have the following
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   software installed and running correctly before attempting to install
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   Metacat.
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     <li><a href="http://www.oracle.com">Oracle 8i</a> (or another SQL92
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         compliant RDBMS like Postgres)</li>
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     <li><a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/ant/index.html">Apache Jakarta-Ant</a>
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     <li><a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/index.html">Apache Jakarta-Tomcat</a>
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       <p class="emphasis">Note: For a more robust web serving environment,
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       Apache web server should
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       be installed along with Tomcat and the two should be integrated
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       as described on the Apache web site.</p>
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<td class="tablehead" colspan="2"><p>Aditional Software Setup</p></td>
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  <p class="header">Oracle 8i</p>
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   The Oracle RDBMS must be installed and running as a daemon on the system.
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   In addition the JDBC listener must be enabled.  You can enable it by
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   logging in as your Oracle user and typing the following:
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   <pre>lsnrctl start</pre>
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   Your instance should have a table space of at least 5 MB (10 MB or higher
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   recommended).  You should also have a username specific to Metacat
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   created and enabled.  This user must have most normal permissions
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   including CREATE SESSION, CREATE TABLE, CREATE INDEX, CREATE TRIGGER,
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   EXECUTE PROCEDURE, EXECUTE TYPE, etc.  If an action is unexplainably
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   rejected by Metacat it is probably because the user permissions are not
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   correctly set.
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  <p class="header">Ant</p>
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   Ant is a Java based build application similar to Make on UNIX systems.
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   It takes in installation parameters from a file in the root installation
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   directory named "build.xml".  The Metacat CVS module contains a default
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   build.xml file that may require some modification upon installation.  Ant
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   should be installed on the system and the "ant" executable shell script
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   should be available in the users path.
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  <p class="header">Tomcat</p>
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    Install tomcat into the directory of your choice. The directory in which
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    you install Tomcat itself will be referred to as the "$TOMCAT_HOME".
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    This install assumes Tomcat version 3.1.  The Tomcat
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    configuration will be slightly different depending on what version of
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    Tomcat you are running.
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    You must now set up your servlet context.  Change to the $TOMCAT_HOME/conf.
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    Edit the tomcat.conf file.  Find a line that looks like:
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    <pre>ApJServMount /examples /root</pre>
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    Add the following line below the aforementioned text:
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    <pre>ApJServMount /metadata /root</pre>
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    Save tomcat.conf.
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   Edit the server.xml file.  Go to the bottom of the file.  Find the line that
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   <pre>&lt;Context path="/examples" docbase="/webapps/examples" debug="0" reloadable="true" &gt;
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   &lt;/Context&gt;</pre>
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   Directly below these lines enter the following:
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   <pre>&lt;Context path="/metadata" docbase="/opt/tomcat/webapps/metadata" debug="0" reloadable="true" &gt;
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   &lt;/Context&gt;</pre>
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   Save server.xml.
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   <div class="emphasis">Note that capital "C" on "Context".  This MUST be a
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   capital "C".  Also note that "metadata" is an arbitrary servlet name.  You
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   may pick whatever servlet name you wish. Also note that the path to the
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   servlet context will depend on where you install the tomcat webapps
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   directory.</div>
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<td class="tablehead" colspan="2"><p>Configuring the Server for Metacat</p></td>
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   Once all of the prerequisite software is installed as described above,
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   the installation of Metacat can begin.  First you must have a current
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   version of the source distribution of Metacat.  You can get it two ways.
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   Authorized users can check it out of the NCEAS
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   <a href="http://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/xmltodb/">CVS</a>
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   system under the module name xmltodb.  The command is as follows:
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   <pre>cvs checkout -P xmltodb</pre>  Or you can
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   <a href="@server@/software/download.html">download</a> a gzipped tar file
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   Once you have either checked out or unzipped and untarred the source
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   distribution, you can begin the installation process.  Change into the
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   xmltodb directory and edit the file called "build.xml".  You will need
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   to change a number of configuration properties to match the setup on
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   your system.  If you are using oracle, you'll need to customize the
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   properties in the "oracle" target.  If you are using Postgres, you'll
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   need to customize the properties in the "postgres" target.  All users
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   will need to customize the properties in the "config" target.
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   The properties that you need to change will include jdbc-connect,
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   dbDriver, dbAdapter, oracle_home,
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   jdbc, tomcat, webapps, context, user, server, systemidserver,
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   web-base-url, and default-style. Each is described in detail below.
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   You should also verify that the jar file properties mentioned in the
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   remainder of the config target are accessible at the paths listed -- the
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   defaults will usually work.
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  <p>
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   Note that the build file is preconfigured to install Metacat either using
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   Oracle or PostgreSQL as a backend database.  To change the database
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   system, simply change the 'depends' attribute of the 'config' target to be
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   'postgresql').  If you wish to use a different database system, add a new
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   target for your database with the needed parameters and actions then add it
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   to the 'depends' attribute.
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  Properties you will likely need to change:<br />
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  <ul>
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   The jdbc-connect parameter is the JDBC connection string needed to connect
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   to your database.
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   The dbDriver parameter is the name of the JDBC driver class to use for
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   connections to your database.
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   The dbAdapter parameter is the name of the Metacat adapter class to be used
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   to communicate with a particular database.
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   The oracle_home parameter is the location that oracle is installed on
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   The jdbc parameter is the location of your jdbc driver jar file.
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   The tomcat parameter is the location in which tomcat is installed.
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   The webapps parameter is the location in which your tomcat servlet
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   contexts are installed.  This is typically "$TOMCAT_HOME/webapps".
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   The context parameter is the name of the servlet context in which
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   you want metacat to be installed.  This will determine the installation
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   directory for the servlet and many of the urls that are used to
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   Web-base-url is the URL from which you want to load any stylesheets
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   or supplementary images.
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   Server is the http address on which Metacat is running (note that you should
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  <li>
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   The systemidserver is the protocol (http or https) and server location to get
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   any DTDs.
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   The user and password parameters are the database user name that you set up
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   to use Metacat, for example an Oracle username and password.
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   The default-style parameter defines the "style-set" that is to be used
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   by default when the qformat parameter is missing or set to "html" during
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   a query.  It is set to "knb", which is the only style that ships with the
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   default metacat distribution.  If you create your own stylesheets for
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   displaying metacat output, you may want to create a new config file in the
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   config-dir (e.g., mystyle.xml) and then change the default-style to use
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   parameter is the directory in which Ant should install the servlet.
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   It is your "servlet context path" that was defined above.
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   Replication path is the relative path to the replication servlet.  This
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   should be the name of your servlet followed by "/servlet/replication".  For
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   The servlet path is the relative path to your servlet as viewed by the
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   <pre>/&lt;servlet-context-name&gt;/servlet/metacat</pre>
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   The config-dir parameter specifies the location of the configuration files
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   directory and generally does not need to be changed.
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  <p class="header">Stylesheet Scripts</p>
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   At the SQLPlus prompt type the following: <pre>@src/xmltables.sql;</pre>
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   You should see a bunch of output showing the creation of the Metacat table
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     DOCTYPE                      VARCHAR2(100)
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     DOCTITLE                     VARCHAR2(1000)
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   Now we are ready to finish setting up Tomcat by getting DTD file from CVS.
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   Once the DTD files are copied, you are ready to compile
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   and installation.  When it is done you should see the message
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   BUILD SUCCESSFUL
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   and you should be returned to a UNIX command prompt.  If you do not see
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   the message BUILD SUCCESSFUL then there was an error that you need to
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   This may come up if you are logged in as a user that does not have write
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   file, or if any of the paths to files are not configured correctly in the
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   "config" target.
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  <p>Once metacat itself is installed, you should also register
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  the Ecological Metadata Language (EML) DTDs. This process is done most
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  easily by running "ant dtdsql" which registers the DTDs with the
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  metacat server.  Your database username and password have to be set correctly
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  for this to work.
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   (and Apache if you have Tomcat integrated with it) must be restarted.  To do
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   this, login as the user that runs your tomcat server (ofter "tomcat"),
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   go to $TOMCAT_HOME/bin and type:
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    Context log path="/metadata" :Metacat: init
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    MetacatServlet Initialize
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   <pre>http://yourserver.yourdomain.com/yourcontext/</pre>
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   You should substitute your context name for "yourcontext" in the url above.
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   If everything is working correctly, you should see a query page followed
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   by an empty result set.  Note that if you do not have Tomcat integrated with
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   Apache you will probably have to type
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   <pre>http://yourserver.yourdomain.com:8080/yourcontext/</pre>
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