Welcome to appNG, the Next Generation application platform!

Requirements

JRE >= 1.8.x
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html
Apache Tomcat 8.5.x and 9.x
http://tomcat.apache.org/
for persistence, MySql >= 5.6.x is used by default
https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/

Configuration & Installation

Download and unpack Apache Tomcat. The target folder is referred to as $CATALINA_HOME in the following.
Download the appNG web application: appng-application-1.26.5.war
(The latest SNAPSHOT Version is available here: appng-application-1.26.6-SNAPSHOT.war)
Delete all folders from $CATALINA_HOME/webapps
Expand appng-application-1.26.5.war to $CATALINA_HOME/webapps/ROOT
Create a new database with the DB management tool of your choice and set your database connection properties in the file WEB-INF/conf/appNG.properties
Download Connector/J from here http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/j/ and save mysql-connector-java-5.1.47.jar to $CATALINA_HOME/lib
Verify that CATALINA_HOME and APPNG_HOME in WEB-INF/bin/appng (for unix/linux based systems) or WEB-INF/bin/appng.bat (for windows based systems) match your local machine settings (change/uncomment the respective lines if necessary)
in WEB-INF/conf/install.list
- set the variable ADMIN_SUBJECT (#15) to your desired username
  def ADMIN_SUBJECT=johndoe
- in the line starting with "create-subject" (#31), set your desired password (-p), full name (-n) and e-mail address (-e)
  create-subject -u $ADMIN_SUBJECT -p secret -n "John Doe" -l en -e jd@example.org
On a command prompt, change to WEB-INF/bin and run
```
chmod +x appng
./appng batch -f ../conf/install.list
```
(for unix/linux based systems)
```
appng batch -f ..\conf\install.list
```
(for windows based systems)

Start Tomcat

$CATALINA_HOME/bin/catalina.sh run

(for unix/linux based systems)

%CATALINA_HOME%/bin/catalina.bat run

(for windows based systems)

Check WEB-INF/log/appNG.log
if you see the line appNG 1.26.5 started in xxx ms. at the end, startup was successful
Browse to http://localhost:8080/manager to login with your username/password
Enjoy!
Start developing your own applications! Check out the developer guide.