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Installation on Windows

Step-by-Step

1. Download

For Windows please download the current release with the zip-extension.

2. Extract

Unzip the top level directory of the archive (Compiere2) to a directory of your choice, e.g. C:\Program Files. The top level directory (e.g. C:\Program Files\Compiere2) will be referred to as {COMPIERE_HOME}.

3. Prepare Runtime Environment

Open a command window and navigate to {COMPIERE_HOME}\utils. From there run

> cscript WinEnv.js {COMPIERE_HOME} {JAVA_HOME}

where {JAVA_HOME} is the installation directory of your JDK (e.g. C:\Program Files\jdk1.5.0_06).

In addition to setting the windows environment variables COMPIERE_HOME and JAVA_HOME the script creates a shortcut to launch the ER/Box application client on the desktop

Please close the command window afterwards.

4. Run Setup

In your filebrowser navigate to {COMPIERE_HOME} and doubleclick the batch file RUN_setup_Derby.bat. This will launch the Derby database server, run the interactive setup routine and stop the database server when finished.

When presented with the setup screen all fields should be prefilled with sensible default values. If something goes wrong you may verify the following entries:

Database Type: derby

Database Name: compiere

System Password: APP

Application Server: {COMPUTER_NAME}

Database Server: {COMPUTER_NAME}

Do not use localhost

Make sure that {COMPUTER_NAME} denotes a real network address, not localhost.

The entries in the remaining fields may be adjusted to your situation or do not have to be filled for the setup to run successfully:

ER/Box Setup Screen