Setting up the Deployer and the oData Web Service - Part 3 Configuring the Tridion Deployer using Eclipse IDE

Open Eclipse, select File -> New -> Other

Select "Server" from the wizard list

Select Apache -> Tomcat v6.0 Server from the list

Specify the location where Tomcat is installed, and click on Installed JREs

Click Add

Select Standard VM

Point your JRE Home setting to the folder containing the JDK. Click Finish

Set the JDK as default JRE. Click OK, then Click Finish

In Eclipse, select "File -> Import"

Select WAR file from the list

Enter the path to the cd_upload.war file: [Tridion_Install]\Content Delivery\java\httpupload\cd_upload.war, enter a name for the web application (TridionUpload in our case) and Select Tomcat from the "Target runtime" dropdown. Click Finish

Right click "TridionUpload" and select New -> Folder

Select the "src" folder as the parent, click on "Advanced", select "Link to alternate location (Linked Folder)" and specify the path to [Tridion_Install]\Content Delivery\configuration\schemas.

Click Finish

Select File -> Import from the main menu

Select File System, click Next

In the "From directory" field, fill in the path to [Tridion_Install]\Content Delivery\configuration\samples

Select the deployer, dynamic, link, storage, wai and logback configuration samples.

Import into TridionUpload/src folder

Overwrite resources.

Click Finish

Rename the imported files, removing _sample from their names

Double-click cd_deployer_conf.xml and switch to the source view

Uncomment the license node, and make sure it points to an existing (and valid) license file.

Repeat this step for cd_link_conf.xml

And again for cd_wai_conf.xml

Edit logback.xml and configure the log location and log level.

(Optional) Encrypt your database password

Create a SQL Server storage in cd_storage_conf.xml. In this example we are setting the ID of this storage to "sqlserver"

Create a File System storage to store binaries in. The ID is set to "tomcatFS"

Change the default ItemTypes storage to the SQL Server storage we created

Make sure the Page mapping is commented out (it is set to the file system by default)

Add a Binary mapping to the tomcatFS storage

Enable the license node, and make sure it points to a valid license file. (note: you may receive an error because the storage XSD does not allow the license node, but you DO need it)

Select File -> Export

Select WAR file

Select the TridionUpload project, and choose the destination for your WAR file. In this case, we're exporting it directly into the webapps folder of Tomcat, which will cause it to deploy automatically

Verify the deployment by opening an explorer window in c:\tomcat\webapps. You should see a new folder named "TridionUpload"

Try the Upload servlet by opening a browser and going to http://localhost:8080/TridionUpload/httpupload