DiscoverEd Quickstart

Getting Started

Run these commands to download a quickstart script.

cd /tmp/ # As good a place as any
wget http://gitorious.org/discovered/repo/blobs/raw/master/gimme-discovered
bash gimme-discovered

The script will check for dependencies, build DiscoverEd, and launch a J2EE server with the software.

What does the script do?

• Install the DiscoverEd code in ./discovered (relative to the working directory)
• Create a discovered database (the default configuration is for MySQL)
• Add a sample curator, and a sample feed
• Download the web pages linked to by that feed
• Run a test search for the term "crime", and print the results to your terminal

The above steps use the search engine without using a web browser. To make it all work in your web browser, the script will then do the following:

• Download a copy of the excellent web server Tomcat in the same directory
• Run that copy of Tomcat
• Open the search engine in Firefox

What you should expect to see

This is a development branch. What you'll see is a search engine that says "DiscoverEd", but which is colored and laid-out incorrectly. The text of the results won't display. (We're working on it.)

Controlling the Installation

The script has several variables which control its behavior, including the install location (DISCOVER_ED_ROOT) and database name (DED_DB_NAME).

If you need more control (or are using this in production), you'll probably want to do a manual installation.