Magnolia 5.4 reached end of life on November 15, 2018. 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 "1.8.0_51" Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_51-b16)
If you don't have Java, install it:
Download a Magnolia bundle or use the Magnolia CLI.
Extract the zip to your computer.
magnolia-x.y/ ├── add-ons/ └── apache-tomcat-x.y/ ├── bin/ ├── conf/ ├── lib/ ├── logs/ ├── temp/ └── webapps/ ├── ROOT/ ├── magnoliaAuthor/ └── magnoliaPublic/
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.
If you are familiar with Magnolia's CLI use the jumpstart
command to download, unpack and pre-configure the Magnolia Community Demo bundle. The bundle includes the Travel Demo and a Tomcat server.
cd
to magnolia-x.y/apache-tomcat-x.y/bin. If you installed the Magnolia bundle with Magnolia CLI jumpstart, cd
to apache-tomcat/bin.Execute the start command:
./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/.magnolia/admincentral
and sign in as:superuser
superuser
The app launcher is displayed.
superuser
is a system administrator account that has permissions to do everything. It is useful for testing.
Having problems? See Known issues.
2 Comments
Anonymous
I have some troubles with installing it and i found the perfect solution here , i hope that will help you too if you have any issues
Christoph Meier
Hi
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kind regards,
Christoph