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 Development Environment (JDK) on Windows. Use the Java Tester to check if you already have Java. The Java Runtime Environment (JRE) is not adequate because the Tomcat application server does not recognize it.
What is the difference? JRE is an implementation of the Java Virtual Machine which actually executes Java programs. JDK is a bundle of software that you can use to develop Java based applications.
If you don't have JDK yet, download and install it from http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp. By default JDK is installed in C:\Program Files (x86)\java\jdk<version>
. You can choose another location.
set
and press ENTER.JAVA_HOME
in the command output and verify that it matches the path to your JRE installation directory, for example C:\Program Files (x86)\java\jre6
.JAVA_HOME
is missing or points to the wrong directory, see Set JAVA_HOME environment variable. If everything is OK, go to Download Magnolia.JAVA_HOME
environment variable does not exist in User variables or System variables, create it:JAVA_HOME
here if you want it to apply only to the currently logged in user. These variables take precedence over system variables.JAVA_HOME
here if you want it to apply to all users. You must be an administrator to modify a system environment variable. JAVA_HOME
to the path of your JDK installation directory, for example C:\Sun\SDK\jdk
.bin
directory to the PATH
variable, for example C:\Program Files\magnolia\apache-tomcat-5.5.27\bin
. Setting the PATH
allows you to issue the Magnolia start
and stop
commands from anywhere without navigating to the installation directory first. Separate the path from existing paths with a semicolon ( ; ). If you do this, you also need to add CATALINA_HOME
to environment variables. Set the value of CATALINA_HOME
to the Tomcat installation directory, for example C:\Program Files\magnolia\apache-tomcat-5.5.27
Alternatively you can set JAVA_HOME with a batch file. Add this line to /apache-tomcat/bin/magnolia_control.bat
:
set JAVA_HOME=C:\Program Files (x86)\java\jre6
The set
command creates the JAVA_HOME
environment variable and sets its value to the JDK directory. The command is executed when Magnolia starts.
Download the Magnolia Tomcat bundle zip file from http://sourceforge.net/projects/magnolia/files/. This will install Tomcat servlet container, one Magnolia author instance and one Magnolia public instance. 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 C:\Program Files
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 C:\Program Files\magnolia-4.2.3\apache-tomcat-5.5.27\bin
)magnolia_control.bat start
and press ENTER.INFO: Server startup in 12345 ms
Tip
To stop Magnolia, type magnolia_control.bat stop
and press ENTER.
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 .