The eHour WAR distribution is intended for deployment into an existing application server.
The way of deployment changed with version 1.4.2. These instructions only apply to version 1.4.2, for older version please use these steps.
1. Install Java
The Java runtime environment is not bundled with eHour. If Java is not installed, download and install the latest JRE from Oracle's site. Java 7 or higher is required.
2. Download eHour
If you haven't done so already, download the WAR distribution of eHour from http://ehour.nl/download/download.phtml
Extract it and remember the path, the location where you unpacked the zip file is the eHour home directory
2. Apache Tomcat installation
Apache Tomcat is the container server which hosts the application. If you don't have Apache Tomcat installed, download it from http://tomcat.apache.org/download-80.cgi and follow their instructions. Apache Tomcat 7 is the minium required version.
3. Configure Apache Tomcat
Set the location of your eHour Home directory by creating an environment variable EHOUR_HOME with the absolute path of the eHour directory.
Windows
Locate the bin directory of your Tomcat install. It contains the catalina.bat and other scripts which startup Tomcat. In this directory create a file setenv.bat or edit it when it already exists.
Assuming that your eHour Home directory is at c:\ehour, add to the contents of this file the line
set EHOUR_HOME="c:\ehour"
Of course change the path to where your EHOUR_HOME dir is actually located
Linux
Locate the bin directory in your Tomcat's install directory. Among other files it contains catalina.sh and startup.sh. In this directory create or edit the file setenv.sh. Make sure that it's executable with
chmod +x setenv.sh
Add the following line to setenv.sh. Change /opt/ehour to point to the eHour Home directory:
export EHOUR_HOME="/opt/ehour"
4. Configure database
4a. Create initial datamodel
Skip this step when you're performing an upgrade.
MySQL
Follow the MySQL installation guide (Linux, Setup MySQL on Windows) to install and setup your database.
PostgreSQL
Follow the PostgreSQL install guide to install and setup your database.
4b. Configure eHour to connect to the database
Configure to which database eHour connects by changing the ehour.properties. The instructions are different per database, follow these steps.
4c. Add database drivers to Tomcat
MySQL
Download the Connector driver from https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/j/. Choose the platform indepent option to download the tarred or zipped driver. Copy the mysql-connector-java-8.xx.jar to Tomcat's lib directory.
PostgreSQL
Download the JDBC driver from https://jdbc.postgresql.org/download/postgresql-42.2.5.jar. Copy the downloaded jar file to Tomcat's lib directory.
5. Install eHour in Tomcat
Copy the WAR file from eHour's app directory to Tomcat's webapp directory. That's it.
The filename of WAR file dictates the URL. When the WAR file that you copy to Tomcat's webapp directory is named "ehour-1.4.2.war", the URL where eHour is available will be http://localhost:8080/ehour-1.4.2/. When you want the URL to be http://localhost:8080/ehour, make sure to rename the WAR to ehour.war.
6. Start Apache Tomcat
Make sure you have started your database first.
Start Tomcat by running startup.sh in the bin directory of the Tomcat installation directory. After a couple of seconds Tomcat and eHour will be initialized and you can access the application at http://localhost:8080/ehour