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Posted by avdp on January 4, 2011 at 12:20pm
Last updated by avdp on Fri, 2011-01-14 16:47

Introduction

Installation of Nimbits is done 'in the cloud' using Google App Engine. Most of the steps are described in the manual nimbits manual . It's basically

Log into App Engine with your Google account [https://appengine.google.com/].
Download the [[http://code.google.com/appengine/downloads.html
|sdk]]

Download the [[http://code.google.com/p/nimbits-server/
|Nimbits server]]

Edit the file \NimbitsServer\WEB-INF\war\appengine-web.xml and replace the line below with
your application ID that you created above.

Deploy the application from the command line (from the sdk directrory): bin\appcfg.cmd update [extractdirectory]\NimbitsServer\war

First go to [http://yourappid.appspot.com/cron/SystemMaint]

Now your dataserver is online!

Notes: It seems you need to use Java jre 1.6 (on a mac, to change this: there is a Java Configuration tool under Utilities.