TheDataWeb Services Installation Guide

System Requirements

Tested OS: Windows NT, 2000, XP
Redhat Fedora Core 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Redhat Enterprise 3, 4
Solaris 6, 7, 8

These are the minimum requirements we recommend for installing a TheDataWeb services. The available space depends on the number of users accessing the machine and the size of the extracts the user might request.

Chip Speed: 2 Ghz
1 Gb RAM
Available Space: 20 Gb (this is an estimate actual size depends on: # of requests and size of the repository)

Windows Install Only

Note: This set up is for a "clean install" on a Microsoft server that does does not expect to use Microsoft IIS as the web server. Individual components of the install can be added or modifed using the install for Linux/Unix/Solaris outlined below.
TheDataWebFullWinInstall

General Install (Linux/Unix/Solaris and specialized Windows)

Required Thirdpary Software
Have to do this manually, many more need to be done.

Required third party software are: Servlet Engine, Java Virtual Machine and Database.

Jakarta-tomcat as our servlet engine, tested tomcat versions (4.1, 5.0, 5.5)
http://tomcat.apache.org/

Java virtual machine from sun. (JRE or JDK) tested java versions (1.3.1, 1.4.0, 1.4.1, 1.4.2, 1.5.0)
http://java.sun.com

MySQL^? to store metadata and (optional) database to store your data. http://www.mysql.com

Pre Installation
Prior to installation of the services the following is the directory structure that should be created. The default settings within the configuration file requires the following structures.

Note: Directory structure could be modified by TheDataWeb.config file within each dataweb service located in "{tomcat}/webapps/{TheDataWeb_ServiceName}/WEB-INF/" directory.

List of TheDataWeb default directories

TheDataWeb installation is provide as a number of Services that are packaged in a .war file format. This allows for easy installation of the desired services. The following are directions for the installation of the services into a Tomcat instance. {tomcat} is the directory where Tomcat has been installed an a system variable should be set to this location as well.

Service(s) needed to provide TheDataWeb Tabulation and Extraction Service
* Install TheDataWeb Service

Service(s) needed to provide metadata repository hosting
* Install Metadata Service
* Install Login Service
* Install Gateway Service

Additional TheDataWeb Service
* Install PDF Generation Service
* Install Map Gateway Service