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diff --git a/archiva-docs/src/site/apt/adminguide/standalone.apt b/archiva-docs/src/site/apt/adminguide/standalone.apt index 53b88e789..31ed6a04e 100644 --- a/archiva-docs/src/site/apt/adminguide/standalone.apt +++ b/archiva-docs/src/site/apt/adminguide/standalone.apt @@ -19,15 +19,30 @@ Installing Standalone Distribution of Apache Archiva [] +* Separating the base from the installation + + The standalone instance of Archiva uses the Plexus application server, which is capable of separating it's configuration from installation, + in much the same way Tomcat does for example. + + This is achieved by the following steps: + + [[1]] Creating the base location. For example, you might install Archiva in <<</opt/archiva-1.0>>> and the data in <<</var/archiva>>>. Create the directories <<</var/archiva/logs>>>, <<</var/archiva/data>>> and <<</var/archiva/conf>>>. + + [[2]] Copy the configuration files from the Archiva installation (eg <<</opt/archiva-1.0/conf>>> to the new location (eg. <<</var/archiva/conf>>>). If you've previously run Archiva, you may need to edit <<<conf/archiva.xml>>> to change the location of the repositories + + [[3]] Set the environment variable <<<APP_BASE>>> to the data location (eg. <<</var/archiva>>>). In bash, be sure to export the variable. + + [[4]] Start Archiva standalone as described above from the installation location + * Configuring Archiva Archiva's configuration is loaded from the following files, in order of most precedent: * <<<~/.m2/archiva.xml>>> - * <<<$ARCHIVA_BASE/conf/archiva.xml>>> + * <<<$APP_BASE/conf/archiva.xml>>> - * <<<$ARCHIVA_HOME/conf/archiva.xml>>> + * <<<conf/archiva.xml>>> in the Archiva installation When Archiva saves it's configuration, all configuration is stored to a single file. The file chosen is by the following rules: |