$Id: INSTALL,v 1.7 2001/09/27 23:34:05 burton Exp $

Requirements: 

  - JDK 1.2.2 or greater

     - hopefully GCC 3.0 will be tested soon.

Warning:

If you are installing a new version of Reptile based on an older version.  You
wil want to 'restore' your old content into the new version of Reptile.
Basically this allows you to migrate all your old weblogs and subscriptions into
the new version.

In order to do this you will need to run the 'restore-content' ant task.  This
will ONLY work if you have compatible versions of Reptile.  Right now we have
not yet broken compatibility with any prior versions so you should be OK.

Restoring content:

%shell% cd REPTILE_HOME

%shell% ./reptile-ant.sh restore-content
     
Installation:

  - Move reptile into a location somewhere on your disk.  For user installations
    this should probably be somewhere under /home/USERNAME/reptile.  For system
    installation this should probably be under /usr/local/reptile.

  - Reptile can be started by running the REPTILE_HOME/reptile-startup.sh script
    and shutdown with REPTILE_HOME/reptile-shutdown.sh script.

  - You should then connect with a web browser to

    http://localhost:8050/reptile/servlet/reptile 
    
  - Note that on stable builds of Reptile we use the port 8050 but on
    development builds we use the port 8051.

Building from source:

  - You will need a copy of Ant in order to build from source.  Builds can be
    obtained from http://jakarta.apache.org

  Change to the REPTILE_HOME directory and run:

    %shell% java org.apache.tools.ant.Main dist

  This will build reptile into REPTILE_HOME/bin/distribution.  All that is
  needed to run it is to launch reptile-startup.sh

  
