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This page contains instructions to help you install Bamboo on Windows. If you want to use your application server, rather than the bundled Jetty server, see EAR-WAR Installation Guide instead.
On this page:
Before you begin:
Note, if you wish to run Bamboo on a Windows x64 platform, make sure that you download the 64-bit version of Bamboo distribution and have a 64-bit JDK installed
Bamboo installation directory— This is the directory where Bamboo's application files will be installed. The default is:
C:/Program Files/Bamboo
Bamboo home directory— This is the directory where Bamboo will store its configuration data. If the directory you specify doesn't exist, Bamboo will create the directory when it launches. The default is:
C:/Documents and Settings/<current-user>/Bamboo-home
You must use forward-slashes in your directory path. Backslashes are not recognised by Bamboo. Please ensure that the Bamboo home directory is not located inside the Bamboo installation directory
Extract the files from the ZIP Archive to a Bamboo installation directoryof your choice. By default, the root directory in your zip file is named "Bamboo".
Warning: Some unzip programs cause errors
Some archive-extract programs cause errors when unzipping the Bamboo archive file. We highly recommend that you use the free 7Zip archive-extract program (if in doubt, download the '32-bit .exe' version).
Set up your Bamboo home directory — this is the directory where Bamboo will store its root configuration data. To do this, edit the file named bamboo-init.properties
in the Bamboo/webapp/WEB-INF/classes
directory. In this file, insert the property "bamboo.home", with an absolute path to your Bamboo home directory. Your file should look something like this:
bamboo.home=C:/test/bamboo-home
Alternatively, you can specify an environment variable 'BAMBOO_HOME' which specifies the absolute path to your {BAMBOO_HOME} directory. Bamboo will check if an environment variable is defined.
If you are going to use Bamboo remote agents, set the following in the bamboo-init.properties
file in the <Bamboo installation directory>/webapp/WEB-INF/classes
directory:
bamboo.jms.broker.uri=tcp://localhost:54663
There are two ways you can launch Bamboo on Windows:
If you have used the 'Windows Installer' to install Bamboo, you can start Bamboo via the Start Menu in Windows (generally under the 'Bamboo' folder by default). The following options will be available in your Start Menu:
You can run Bamboo in two modes, either in a Windows console or as a Windows service:
To run Bamboo as a Windows service, click the 'Install service' option. After the service is installed, click 'Start Service'. Once you have installed Bamboo as a service, Bamboo will start up automatically every time Windows restarts.
Running Bamboo as a service
You can start Bamboo via the batch files that are shipped with Bamboo. If you have installed Bamboo via the ZIP Archive, you will need to use the batch files to start Bamboo. You can find the following batch files in your installation directory:
You can run Bamboo in two modes, either in a Windows console or as a Windows service:
To run Bamboo as a Windows service, run 'InstallAsService.bat'. After the service is installed, run 'StartBamboo.bat'. Once you have installed Bamboo as a service, Bamboo will start up automatically every time Windows restarts.
Running Bamboo as a service