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Getting Started with Macromedia JRun

  1. Extract searchblox.war, using for example the Java jar tool or a regular unzip command. On Windows, applications like WinZip work as well. Extract the files into a directory or sub-directory named searchblox, for example C:\xxxx\searchblox
  2. Delete searchblox/WEB-INF/lib/commons-logging.jar
  3. Move searchblox/WEB-INF/lib/log4j-*.jar into $JRUN/servers/lib/ (create this directory if it doesn't exist)
  4. Logon to the JRun Management Console.
  5. In the left pane of the Console, Select default | J2EE Components.
  6. In the right pane of the Console, click on the Add button under Web Applications.
  7. In the field Source File Path, enter the name of the directory where the files extracted from searchblox.war are present.
  8. Click on the Deploy button.
  9. Under "General Settings for searchblox", enter /searchblox in the Context Path field and click Apply.
  10. Go to http://yourhost/searchblox/admin/main.jsp in your browser and Login using username : admin / password : admin
  11. Go to Collections Tab and Click on Add Collection to create a new collection.
  12. Choose whether it is a HTTP or FileSystem based collection, assign a unique name and choose the language for this collection. And Click Add to finish creating the collection.
  13. Click on Root Sub-Tab and Type in RootURL / Filepath and click OK.
  14. Go to Indexer Sub-Tab and click Index button to start indexing.
  15. Click on the DashBoard Sub-Tab under Collections to view indexing status.
  16. Go to http://yourhost/searchblox/search.jsp to start searching.