Installation of the web application

This page describes how to set up a new installation of map.apps. If you want to update an existing installation, continue with Update of an existing installation.

To install the map.apps client, the following steps have to be performed:

  • Copy the file map.apps-4.8.4/ct-mapapps-webapp-4.8.4.war to the folder %TOMCAT%\webapps. If Tomcat is running, it deploys the .war-file automatically. This might take a few seconds. Optionally you can change the name of the WAR file from the map.apps-4.8.4 directory to your needs, for example mapapps.war. The name is used in the URL the app is called from (for example https://<yourserver>/mapapps).

  • You can also use the Tomcat Manager (usually located at http://<yourserver>:8080/manager/html) to deploy the .war-file.

When installing map.apps on Linux systems, you have to change the following parameter in the configuration:

data.directory.location=$\{user.home\}/.mapapps to for example data.directory.location=/tmp/.mapapps

The application is now available under this URL: https://<yourserver>/mapapps. If you load the web context after deployment, you see an empty app overview, as shown in the following screenshot:

empty app overview

The steps to create a first app are described in Manage Apps.