Installation

Installation

A system requirement to run Fess server is:

• OS: an operation system which has Java runtime environment, such as Windows and Unix.
• Java: Java 6 or the above

You can download Java 6 from http://java.sun.com/.

Download

Download the latest Fess package from http://sourceforge.jp/projects/fess/releases/.

Installation

Unzip fess-server-x.y.zip. Grant an execution permission to script files in bin directory if you install on Unix environment.

$ unzip fess-server-x.y.zip
$ cd fess-server-x.y
$ chmod +x bin/*.sh   # (Unix only)

Start Fess

Run startup script to start Fess server.

$ ./bin/startup.sh   # (Use startup.bat on Windows)

Access to http://localhost:8080/fess/ to check if Fess is running.

The administrative UI is http://localhost:8080/fess/admin/. The default username/password is admin/admin. admin account has fess role, which is used as an administrative role.

Stop Fess

Run shutdown script to stop Fess server.

$ ./bin/shutdown.sh   # (Use shutdown.bat on Windows)

Change Password for Administrator User

admin account is managed by an application server. A default Fess server uses Tomcat as the app server. Therefore, a password change is the same as Tomcat's steps. If you want to change a password, modify a password of admin user in conf/tomcat-user.xml.

  <user username="admin" password="admin" roles="fess"/>

Change Password for Solr Server

Fess server contains Apache Solr as a search engine, and a password is needed to access to it. In a production envrionment, CHANGE the password.

First, changing the password, change solradmin of a password attribute in conf/tomcat-user.xml.

  <user username="solradmin" password="solradmin" roles="solr"/>

Second, set the same one to the following Password element in webapps/fess/WEB-INF/classes/fess_solr.dicon.

<component class="org.apache.commons.httpclient.UsernamePasswordCredentials">
    <arg>"solradmin"</arg> <!-- Username -->
    <arg>"solradmin"</arg> <!-- Password -->
</component>