The instructions below tell you how to install the Crowd distribution (not EAR-WAR), which includes Apache Tomcat. If you wish to deploy a WAR distribution of Crowd or CrowdID on your own existing application server instead, read the instructions on the Crowd WAR distribution.
Crowd versions 1.1 and later include CrowdID. Installing Crowd, as described below, will also install CrowdID.
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1. Prerequisites
- Java. You will need to install a Java Development Kit (JDK) on your operating system before before proceeding with a Crowd installation. Please note that Crowd requires the full installation of a JDK. It is not enough to run Crowd on a Java Runtime Environment (JRE) alone. For instructions on installing the Sun JDK and setting
JAVA_HOME, please refer to Supported Platforms.
2. Install Crowd
- Download Crowd (not the EAR-WAR distribution).
- Please check your unzip program before extracting the downloaded archive – see the note on the Crowd installation front page.
- Unzip the download archive into a directory of your choice. Note: Do not specify directory names that contain spaces.
We'll refer to this installation directory as {CROWD_INSTALL}.
- Specify your Crowd Home directory by editing the configuration file at: {
CROWD_INSTALL}\crowd-webapp\WEB-INF\classes\crowd-init.properties. 
3. Prepare your Database
This step applies to production installations. If you are evaluating Crowd and are happy to use the database supplied, you can skip this step. |
If you wish to set up Crowd and/or CrowdID with an external database, see:
4. Start Crowd and Complete the Setup Wizard
- Run the start-up script, found in your {CROWD_INSTALL} directory:
start_crowd.bat for Windows.start_crowd.sh for Mac and Unix-based systems.
- Point a web browser at http://localhost:8095/crowd where you will see the Crowd Setup Wizard. Follow the instructions in the Wizard. You can also read more information about the Setup Wizard.
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