• Introduction

  Intention

  Contents overview

• Installation

  Download

  Installation

• Login

  The default administrator and its password

• Nodes basics

  The node tree

  Node types

  The default view

• HTML pages

  WYSIWYG editor for HTML pages

• Virtual pages editor

  Create a new node using a virtual page

  Edit the properties of a node using the virtual page

• Create a new node type

  Create new node type

  Create a new virtual page template for the type

Installation

The nodes application is based on Java, both server and rich clients require the Java runtime system.

You must download and install the latest Java version. Then, you download the nodes server and install it. Finally, you try to login, this will automatically download the required client software.

Install Java

Download and install the latest Java version.

Download nodes server

Go to the projects download page. You can either download a webarchive file ( .war suffix) or an executable jar file ( .jar suffix)

• The executable jar includes an embedded webserver itself. Its best suited for a quick evaluation.
• The webarchive can be deployed to any java webserver, e.g. apache tomcat.

Depending on your selection, you will install the embedded server or the web archive next.

Install embedded server

1. Double click on the .jar file or call java -jar jarfile.
2. A dialog will prompt you to configure some basic settings, e.g. the installation path the and the path to the repository database. If you have already installed another version of the application, this can be helpful to reuse the existing repository, else you can accept the defaults.That will install both server and repository within your current directory.

   

3. If you have selected show start page, the application will open a new window in the browser and prompt you to login.

Install web archive on existing server

1. Rename the archive file to nodes.war.
2. To run the archive, you will need to install a java web server, e.g. the tomcat, e.g. use the instructions for installing tomcat 6. Newer versions should make no difference.
3. Copy the nodes.war file to the webapp folder of the tomcat installation.
4. Start the tomcat server as described in the installation instructions.
5. Login as described in the next chapter.