Magnolia 6.1 reached end of life on March 31, 2021. This branch is no longer supported, see End-of-life policy.
java -version
in a terminal or command prompt. If the system reports a version number, Java is installed on your computer.$ java -version java version "10.0.1" 2018-04-17 Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment 18.3 (build 10.0.1+10)
If you don't have Java, install it:
As an alternative to the following instructions, you can use the Magnolia CLI to install and start Magnolia.
Extract the zip to your computer.
magnolia-x.y/ ├── add-ons/ └── apache-tomcat-x.y/ ├── bin/ ├── conf/ ├── lib/ ├── logs/ ├── temp/ ├── webapps/ | ├── magnoliaAuthor/ | ├── magnoliaPublic/ | └── ROOT/ └── work/
Where to extract:
Magnolia Community Edition software 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-x.y/apache-tomcat-x.y/bin
directory and type:./magnolia_control.sh start
Note: If you get an error due to a low "max open files" limit, try executing the command with the --ignore-open-files-limit
option:
./magnolia_control.sh start --ignore-open-files-limit
Detailed instructions:
http://localhost:8080
Magnolia installs its modules. When the installation is complete on the author and public instances, click Start up Magnolia on both:
http://localhost:8080/magnoliaAuthor
and sign in as:superuser
superuser
Magnolia is ready to use and gives you a list of suggestions to get started.
superuser
is a system administrator account that has permissions to do everything. It is useful for testing.
Having problems? See Known issues.