Install WAR on Tomcat

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. When 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-70.cgi and follow their instructions. Apache Tomcat 7 is the minium required version.

3. Install the database

MySQL instructions

Skip this step when you're performing an upgrade.

Follow the MySQL installation guide (Linux, Setup MySQL on Windows) to install and setup your database.

PostgreSQL

Skip this step when you're performing an upgrade.

Follow the PostgreSQL install guide to install and setup your database.

4. Configure Apache Tomcat

Tomcat should know the location of your eHour Home directory. You can do this by creating the environment variable EHOUR_HOME which points to your eHour directory.

Windows

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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

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Locate the bin directory of your Tomcat install. It contains the catalina.sh and other scripts which startup Tomcat. In this directory create a file setenv.sh or edit it when it already exists. Make sure that it's executable with

chmod +x setenv.sh

Assuming that your eHour Home directory is at /opt/ehour, add to the contents of this file the line

export EHOUR_HOME="/opt/ehour"

Of course change the path to where your EHOUR_HOME dir is actually located

5. Configure database

To change eHour's data, follow these steps.

6. Install eHour in Tomcat

Copy the WAR file from eHour's app directory to Tomcat's webapp directory. That's it.

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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.

7. 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