Create a directory, blojsom, underneath Tomcat's webapps directory.
Unpack the blojsom.war file in the $TOMCAT_HOME/webapps/blojsom directory. The following command will unpack the blojsom.war file.
jar xvf blojsom.war
Edit the authorization file located in $TOMCAT_HOME/webapps/blojsom/WEB-INF/default/authorization.properties. This file specifies the users (and their passwords) who are allowed to post to the individual blog. The format of this file is as follows.
username=password,\{optional e-mail address}
Each separate line represents an individual username and password combination. You may associate an e-mail address with the username by adding a "," and the appropriate e-mail address.
Edit the permissions file located in $TOMCAT_HOME/webapps/blojsom/WEB-INF/default/permissions.properties. This file specifies the users permissions on the individual blog. The format of this file is as follows.
username=permission
Each separate line represents an individual username and permission combination. You may have multiple lines with the same username for specifying multiple permissions. The permissions page describes more on individual permissions for blojsom components.
Create a directory where your blog categories and entries will be stored. For example, under UNIX the command might be as follows:
mkdir /blog/
Edit the blog properties file located in $TOMCAT_HOME/webapps/blojsom/WEB-INF/default/blog.properties. Change the value for the blog-home parameter to the location of the directory you just created.
blog-home=/blog/
Start your application server. On startup, blojsom will log messages to the console to indicate what it is doing.
Start your browser and open the URL to your blog. Example: http://localhost:8080/blojsom/blog/default/. Later sections on this page describe creating categories and entries.
You also will be able to administer and configure blojsom using the web-based administration console. You can access the administration console of your blog by adding ?flavor=admin to the URL when accessing your blog, as shown in the following figure.
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