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Create Tomcat website on Mist#

Setup Tomcat website:#

• Find out customers Domain name
• Create Web root Folder on Mist named as the Domain name, path is D:\Websites\{DOMAIN_NAME}
• create IIS FTP site to point to web root created above. Need customers required FTP username and password for this.
• Create new virtual host XML Node in server.xml, Add after the other XML nodes, BEFORE the </Engine> tag. The path to server.xml is D:\apache-tomcat-5.5.20\conf\server.xml.

<Host name="{DOMAIN_NAME}" >
  <Context path="" docBase="D:\Websites\{DOMAIN_NAME}"/>
</Host>

• Restart Tomcat service. Right click on My Computer/Manage/Services and Applications. Choose services, then Restart service called "Apache Tomcat Tomcat"
• Point the customers domain name or a hyve temporary domain name via name servers to the IP Address 66.70.70.55
• Test my creating index.jsp in the webroot with the following code and hit in a browser.

<%="It works"%>

Setup New Database and user in mySQL (If required)#

• /Start/Programs/Mysql administrator. Click Catalogs, Create new schema.
• User administration/Create new User, add details. Need required Database username and password from customer for this.
• Run scripts on behalf of customer in /Start/Programs/Mysql Query Browser

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