Step by Step Installation instruction

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1/11/2008 7:47:17 AM
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Step by Step Installation instruction

Good Morning, I am tasked to evalute ECM products at my work and heard great things about mojoPortal. Where can I find step by step instructions on installing this product. I am planning to install this on my laptop and conduct high level evaluations. Any help is greatly appreciated. Installation links on mojo is not giving me information on what files to be downloaded and what needs to be done in a step by step manner.

1/11/2008 8:08:03 AM
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Hi,

First let me say that a new release is going to be made by late sunday night with some great new features including newsletter and google maps so I hope you will evaluate the new version.

Secondly, I would like to point out that you can evaluate it at a high level without installing it at all by using the online demo site. The demo site is running a recent build whereas the .zip download release files are the older previous release.

If you do want to set it up on your laptop, how you set it up depends on whether you plan to work with the source code or not. The easiest thing is if you have VS 2008 and TortoiseSVN, then

  1. get the code from svn trunk which is the most up to date code
  2. open the Web/user.config.sample file with a text editor and save it as Web/user.config
  3. create a database in MS SQL and set the connection string in user.config
  4. open the mojoportal-complete.sln in VS 2008 and build the solution
  5. Right click the Web project and make sure it is set as the sartup project
  6. Hit the play button in VS to launch the web in the VS web server and it will initiate the setup
  7. alternatively if you want to run it in IIS then follow the IIS setup instructions

If you have VS 2005 SP1instead of VS 2008 then same instructions but use the mojoportal-complete-vs2005.sln

If you don't want to work with the source code then download the zip mojoportal-version-mssqlreleasefiles and follow the IIS setup instructions. Ideally wait for monday and get the new release.

If you run into problems or have more specific questions post here and we'll try to help.

Of course procedure for installation at a hosting company varies.

Hope it helps,

Joe

 

1/11/2008 8:27:01 AM
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I would wait till Monday. I am planning to install it on my laptop and I have VS 2005. I do have SQL Server Express Edition, can I use that? Also, if our Enterprise goes with mojoPortal, can we use Oracle in place of SQL Server?

Thank you.

1/11/2008 8:36:19 AM
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Hi,

If you have VS 2005 and want to work with the code there is no need to wait. If you get the code from svn trunk it is up to date for the new release. There will only be minor changes between now and then. SQLExpress is fine as long as you know how to create a connection string for it. Usually you have to use the instance name in the connection string if SQLExpress is not installed as a default instance and usually it is installed not as a default instance but as an instance named SQLExpress. I can help if you have any trouble. If you already have other web apps on your machine using SQLEXpress then you should be able to figure out the correct syntax from a working example.

Currently we support 5 databases but Oracle is not one of them. However, there have been recent posts in the developer forum from someone who plans to implement a data layer for Oracle, though I cannot predict if or when he will complete it.

I can say that if a company wants to sponsor development of Orcale support, I believe I could implement it myself for the core features in 5 weeks or less of effort.

Best Regards,

Joe

1/11/2008 8:44:09 AM
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That is great to know that we can get assistance from you. If we go with mojoPortal, sponsoring shall not be an issue at all as we would certainly need some professional assistance. I am not planning to work with the code at this point, all I am doing is to see what does mojorPortal provide out of the box.

I am not using SQL Express for anything else, I am currently using it to evaluate dotnetNuke.

1/11/2008 8:55:36 AM
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Ok, well I hope you choose mojoportal. The new download will be available by monday.

Alternatively I would be happy to setup a private online demo for you as I often do for clients or potential clients. I can have it setup with the latest code this afternoon and send you a link. The public demo is sometimes not the best because others are using it at the same time.

Just let me know if you would like that.

Thanks,

Joe

1/11/2008 9:08:24 AM
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Re: Step by Step Installation instruction

I was planning on contacting you offline, but I could not get through your validations on your site. Will you be able to get my contact information from my account?

1/11/2008 9:12:04 AM
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Yes. I'll set it up and contact you in a little while.

What trouble did you have on the contact form? Was it the captcha? Did it show an error or was it just too much of a pain to solve it or some other problem? Just interested from a usability perspective so I can improve it.

Thanks,

Joe

1/11/2008 9:14:32 AM
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it kept on erroring out and I think I am decently educated and should not have trouble reading.

1/11/2008 9:16:14 AM
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Ok, good to know and sorry about that. I will investigate. Can you tell me which browser you are using, IE7, IE6 or Firefox or something else?

Thanks,

Joe

1/11/2008 9:17:18 AM
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No problem, IE 6.0

1/11/2008 9:17:33 AM
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No problem, IE 6.0

12/16/2008 7:12:32 AM
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Currently we support 5 databases but Oracle is not one of them. However, there have been recent posts in the developer forum from someone who plans to implement a data layer for Oracle, though I cannot predict if or when he will complete it.

I can say that if a company wants to sponsor development of Orcale support, I believe I could implement it myself for the core features in 5 weeks or less of effort.

 

Joe, aren't you going to support Oracle now as you use SubSonic (after reading http://www.mojoportal.com/subsonic-all-your-databases-are-belong-to-us.aspx)?

12/16/2008 7:17:20 AM
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Hi Alexander,

No, I never had any plans to support Oracle even when I was using SubSonic. As of now I have removed all use of  SubSonic as I found it to be inefficient in terms of resource consumption and it made things more difficult to debug. I was briefly enthusiastic about SubSonic but it didn't last. Its no longer included or used anywhere in mojoportal.

Best,

Joe

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