Jakarta Slide

Today I thought I'd install Jakarta Slide on my Windows XP to work on WebDAV ACL stuff. Spent several hours so far, and it's not yet working.

I think this is how one is supposed to install Jakarta Slide:

1. Install Apache 2:
   • http://httpd.apache.org/download.cgi
     • http://apache.secsup.org/dist/httpd/binaries/win32/apache_2.0.52-win32-x86-no_ssl.msi
   • install
   • start in console; test you can browse localhost[:8080]
2. Install Java
   • Slide docs seem to say you can install JRE or JDK, but tomcat startup.bat complained if I had anything other than JDK 5
   • http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/download.jsp
3. Install Slide 2.0 bundled with tomcat - 2.0 server Tomcat 5 bundle tar.gz
   • Nightly build of 2.1b did not start
   • http://jakarta.apache.org/site/binindex.cgi#slide
     • http://mirrors.combose.com/apache/jakarta/slide/binaries/jakarta-slide-2.0-tomcat-5.0.19.tar.gz
   • install instructions (Tomcat bundle): http://jakarta.apache.org/slide/installation.html
     • basically after unpacking to a location you like, launch the startup.bat in bin dir
   • Wait until you see INFO: Server startup in xxx ms; point browser at http://localhost:8080/slide

• Seems like slide startup.bat starts a webserver itself, and cannot start if apache is already running. Maybe I don't need separate Apache?

-- HeikkiToivonen - 18 Nov 2004

You definitely don't want the separate Apache instance. Tomcat is configured out of the box to use its own HTTP listener. I've set up Slide twice now, both from the binary distribution and from source checked out of CVS, so if you wind up needing to use it in the future, I can give you a hand.

-- BrianMoseley - 01 Feb 2005