Installing Magnolia

Warning: this steps only apply to the Magnolia 2.1 distribution. Refer to the appropriate documentation for previous versions.

Choosing a distribution

Magnolia 2.1 is available in two different packages:

If you download the tomcat bundle you will be able to run magnolia without any further configuration, so this is probably the easier way to try it if you are new to magnolia.

Expert developers might prefer to download the war files. Magnolia requires a servlet 2.4 compatible servlet container and a 1.4 level jre/jdk (depending on the server requisites) in order to run properly. The suggested server is Apache Tomcat 5.x.

Nightly builds and builds from svn

Nightly builds are available as a single war (configured as an admin instance). You can install this war just like the ones in the 2-war files distribution. This install guide will show you how to change the configuration of a war and how to make multiple magnolia instances live in the same application server.