3.1. Installation Guide

In this chapter you find help to set up components necessary to run Elastic Social. It is also possible and recommended to use RPMs to install MongoDB in your project depending on your operating system. This chapter only helps you to quickly setup a development environment.

Install

  • Install the supported versions of Java and Maven

  • Download and extract the latest supported version of MongoDB:

    http://www.mongodb.org/downloads/

  • Download and extract the latest CoreMedia Blueprint

    https://releases.coremedia.com/dxp8

    See the [CoreMedia Digital Experience Platform 8 Developer Manual] for further instructions on how to set up and use CoreMedia Blueprint.

MongoDB

  1. Prepare MongoDB

    mkdir log

    mkdir data

    If you start MongoDB under a dedicated user, make sure the user has read and write access to MongoDB's logs and data folders.

  2. Start MongoDB

    bin/mongod --rest --dbpath data --logpath log/mongodb.log --logappend

  3. Open MongoDB status

    http://localhost:28017/serverStatus?text=1

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