Ace:Windows Installation
From Adapt
Detailed instructions for installing MySQL, Tomcat, and ACE on Windows XP.
Download Items
Download the following and save to your computer.
Install MySQL
Double-click on the tomcat file you downloaded.
Create MySQL database
- 1. Open MySQL CLI
Go to Start -> All Programs -> MySQL -> MySQL Server 5.1 -> MySQL Command Line Client
- 2. Create Database
Type in 'create database aceam;'
- 3. Grant Permissions
Type in 'grant all on aceam.* to 'aceam'@'localhost' identified by 'YOUR_PASSWORD'; Change YOUR_PASSWORD to be some other password. This is only used by the ace software to connect to the database. Users using ACE will not need to know this.
- 4. Create database tables
Install Tomcat
- 1 Run installer
walk through the following screens to install tomcat for ACE.
Now that tomcat is installed, stop the service and get ready for the last step.
Install ACE
- 1 Install jdbc driver.
ACE requires a database driver to be installed in tomcat to fully work. Copy the jdbc file from your download directory to the lib directory in tomcat.
- 2 Copy ACE software
Copy the ace-am.war file you downloaded into the webapps directory of tomcat.
- 3 Edit the ACE configuration