2. Installing Crowd and CrowdID

The instructions below tell you how to install the standalone version of Crowd, which includes Apache Tomcat. You may wish to deploy Crowd on your own existing application server instead.

Note: Crowd versions 1.1 and later include CrowdID. Installing Crowd, as described below, will also install CrowdID. 

Installing Crowd

1. Download Crowd.
2. Unzip the download archive into a directory of your choice (note: do not specify directory names that contain spaces).
   This directory will be referred to as {CROWD_INSTALL}.
3. (Optional) If you wish to setup Crowd and/or CrowdID with an external database, see:

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4. Run the start-up script: 
   • start_crowd.bat for Windows;
     or:
   • start_crowd.sh for Unix environment.
5. Point a web browser at http://localhost:8095/ where you will see the Setup Wizard.

Related Topics

• 1. System Requirements
  • 1.1 Setting JAVA_HOME
• 2. Installing Crowd and CrowdID
  • 2.1 Connecting Crowd to a Database
    • 2.1.1 HSQL DB
    • 2.1.2 MS SQL Server
    • 2.1.3 MySQL
    • 2.1.4 Oracle
    • 2.1.5 PostgreSQL
  • 2.2 Connecting CrowdID to a Database
    • 2.2.1 HSQL DB
    • 2.2.2 MS SQL Server
    • 2.2.3 MySQL
    • 2.2.4 Oracle
    • 2.2.5 PostgreSQL
  • 2.3 Installing Crowd on a Separate Application Server
    • 2.3.1 Installing Crowd on JBoss
• 3. Running the Setup Wizard
• 4. Configuring Crowd
  • 4.1 Important Files
    • The crowd.properties File
  • 4.2 Changing the Port that Crowd uses
• 5. Installing Crowd as a Windows Service
  • 5.1 Specifying Startup Order of Windows Services
  • 5.2 Changing the User for the Crowd Windows Service
  • 5.3 Removing the Crowd Windows Service
  • 5.4 Troubleshooting Crowd as a Windows Service