Installation on Windows
Short Version
- Make sure you have JAVA 6 or newer correctly installed
- Download the latest stable build zip
- Deflate it and run **start.bat**, which you'll find within the OpenSearchServer folder
- Open your favorite browser with the url http://yourserver:9090 (your server being localhost if it's running on your local machine)
- Enjoy discovering OpenSearchServer
More Detailed Version
The following covers the same steps as above, in more detail.
Checking your version of Java
- Go to this page to know which version of Java is running on your computer
- If your version is not a Version 6 or greater, you will need to update your Java engine
- If the web page states that you don't have any Java machine, please install one
In the latter two cases, you will be presented with a Free Java Download button. Just go ahead - press it and follow the provided instructions.
Downloading OpenSearchServer
We recommend that you always get the latest version of OSS on SourceForge.
Please download the **ZIP** package for Windows and unzip it on your disk.
When the file is unzipped you'll get a folder **opensearchserver**. All your OSS binaries (and your future data) will be stored in this folder.
Running it
Just launch the start.bat file in your OpenSearchServer base folder.
To access your OSS Back Office, open you browser (Firefox, Chromium, Opera, Safari...) and open the page http://yourserver:9090
If everything went right you'll see the OpenSearchServer interface. If nothing gets displayed and you're certain you've done everything right, please check the troubleshooting section.
Troubleshooting
This section reviews the possible causes for trouble. You only need to go through them if things are not going right.
Checking the environnement variables
- Right click My Computer
- Select Properties
- Select Advanced tab
- Select Environment Variables
You will see a list of variables. What you need is either a JRE_HOME or JAVA_HOME variable, depending on the type of Java engine you are running.
If the correct variable is present, please check that it targets the correct folder.
If the desired variable is not present, create it thus:
- If you have a JRE, create or update the environment variable JRE_HOME. Set it to target the folder where your Java JRE is, for example C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.7.0_51
- If you have a JDK, create or update the environment variable JAVA_HOME. Set it to target the folder where your Java JDK is, for example C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0_51
Once you have done that try again to launch OpenSearchServer through start.bat.
If you have Java, do not see the variable and do not remember whether you have a JDK or JRE, go to the Start menu, Click Run, type cmd to call up the command line interface, and type java -version to see what's installed.
Checking whether your 9090 port is free
If by chance you already have a server listening on the 9090 tcp port you'll have to change it in the start.bat config files.
To check whether the 9090 port is already occupied use the following command line:
netstat -o -n -a | findstr 0.0:9090
If you have a response resembling the one below, your port isn't free:
TCP 0.0.0.0:9090 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING 676
If port 9090 is already being used, we suggest that you simply use another port for OpenSearchServer. To do so:
Edit in you OpenSearchServer folder the file start.bat
Locate the line starting with:
SERVER_PORT=9090
Then change that to:
SERVER_PORT=9091
Save your file and start OpenSearchServer with start.bat
Your OpenSearchServer Back Office is now available at this address: http://yourserver:9091