Setup blojsom

• Download the blojsom 3.0 blojsom.war file.
• Create a web application directory for the blojsom 3.0 WAR file in %TOMCAT_HOME%/webapps.
  

  % mkdir blojsom

• Copy the blojsom.war file into the %TOMCAT_HOME%/webapps/blojsom directory.
• Unpack the blojsom.war file.
  

  jar xvf blojsom.war

• Delete the blojsom.war file.

Install the MySQL Database Driver

• After unpacking the MySQL JDBC Driver, copy the mysql-connector-java-3.1.12-bin.jar (or appropriate version) file to %TOMCAT_HOME%/common/lib.

Configure blojsom’s Database Settings

• Edit %TOMCAT_HOME%/webapps/blojsom/WEB-INF/classes/blojsom-helper-beans-include.xml and change only the values for the username and password for your database to the username and password you created earlier.

  <bean id="dataSource" class="org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource" destroy-method="close">
      <property name="driverClassName" value="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"/>
      <property name="url" value="jdbc:mysql://localhost/blojsom?autoReconnect=true&amp;useUnicode=true&amp;characterEncoding=utf-8"/>
      <property name="username" value="someuser"/>
      <property name="password" value="somepassword"/>
  </bean>

• Edit %TOMCAT_HOME%/webapps/blojsom/WEB-INF/classes/blojsom.xml. You may need to change the value for the dbScript or detectBlojsomSQL property for your particular database. This will be noted in the database installation instructions.

  <bean id="dbloader" class="org.blojsom.util.database.DatabaseLoader" init-method="init">
      <property name="sessionFactory">
          <ref bean="hibernateSessionFactory"/>
      </property>
      <property name="dbScript" value="/WEB-INF/classes/blojsom-full-initial-data-mysql.sql"/>
      <property name="upgrading" value="false"/>
      <property name="servletConfig">
          <ref bean="servletConfigFactoryBean"/>
      </property>
      <property name="detectBlojsomSQL">
          <value>show tables;</value>
      </property>
  </bean>

Access blojsom

• Start Tomcat
• You may now access your blog at http://localhost:8080/blojsom/blog/default/
• You may access the administration console at http://localhost:8080/blojsom/blog/default/?flavor=admin
• The default user and password is default/default. Be sure to change the password immediately after logging in. You can change this under Weblog Settings | Users.

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