Installation of the Pineapple standalone web application on Windows

This guide describes how the Pineapple standalone web application is installed under a Windows OS.

Download Pineapple

Download the client pineapple-gui-release-VERSION.zip from the Downloads page.

Unpack Pineapple

Unzip pineapple-standalone-web-client-VERSION.zip to any directory. Some examples are:

  • C:\Program Files
  • C:\tools
  • C:\app\alpha\product

The Pineapple Installation directory

Once unpacked a directory named pineapple-standalone-web-client-VERSION is created. Example: c:\Program Files\pineapple-standalone-web-client-1.1.0. This directory is called the Pineapple Installation Directory, and refered to as PINEAPPLE_INSTALL_DIR in the remaining part of this guide.

The unzipped archive contains the directory layout:

pineapple-standalone-web-client-VERSION
     |     
     +--- runPineapple.cmd
     +--- runPineapple.sh     
     |     
     +--- bin     
     |     +--- helper scripts     
     |     
     +--- conf     
     |     +--- log4j.properties
     |     `--- jetty.xml
     |               
     +--- webapps
     |     `--- pineapple-web-application-war.war
     |               
     +--- lib
           +--- pineapple-jetty-starter-1.0.jar
           +--- jetty-*.jar
           +--- log4j-*.jar
           `--- servlet-api-*.jar

Start Pineapple

Execute PINEAPPLE_INSTALL_DIR\runPineapple.cmd to start Pineapple.

Creation of the default configuration

When Pineapple is started then it will look for configuration files in the Pineapple Home Directory.

If no configuration files are found then it will a create a default configuration which allows the application to start and provides a starting point to using the supplied examples.

Ready for usage...

Now the application is installed an ready to be used.