Magnolia 4.5 reached end of life on June 30, 2016. This branch is no longer supported, see End-of-life policy.
Magnolia Community Edition is distributed free-of-charge and without any warranty under the terms of the GNU General Public License (version 3), a license that permits you to redistribute and modify the software under certain terms and conditions. It is important that you read the license to understand your rights and obligations.
Magnolia needs a Java Runtime Environment (JRE). Apple supplies their own version of Java. Most likely you already have it on your Mac. Use the Java Tester to check.
Use the Software Update feature available in the Apple menu to check that you have the most up-to-date version of Java for your Mac.
If you want to switch to a different version of Java, use the Java Preferences application in Applications > Utilities.
Download the Magnolia Tomcat bundle zip file from http://sourceforge.net/projects/magnolia/files/.
The file name depends on the release, for example magnolia-tomcat-bundle-4.2.3-bundle-jdk15.zip
. Get the latest.
Extract the zip to /Applications
or another directory on your computer.
The extracted folder structure looks like this:
magnolia-4.2.3 add-ons apache-tomcat bin conf logs webapps MagnoliaAuthor MagnoliaPublic ROOT
cd /Applications/magnolia-4.2.3/apache-tomcat/bin
./magnolia_control.sh start && tail -f ../logs/catalina.out
The first part of the startup command ./magnolia_control.sh start
launches Magnolia. The second part && tail -f ../logs/catalina.out
displays startup messages written to /apache-tomcat/logs/catalina.out
log file. This makes it easier to troubleshoot startup errors.
Magnolia reports startup information. If startup fails, look for the reason in the report. See Troubleshooting to resolve the issues. In a successful startup the last line reads:
INFO: Server startup in 12345 ms
Tip
To stop Magnolia, type ./magnolia_control.sh stop
and press RETURN.
http://localhost:8080
.Repeat the update on the public instance.
http://localhost:8080
.http://localhost:8080/magnoliaAuthor/.magnolia
.superuser
superuser
The AdminCentral is displayed.
Info
Superuser is a system administration account that has permission to every function. End users should not use this account. See Users for instructions how to create new user accounts and Default users for accounts that you can use for testing right away.
Having problems? See Known issues.