Installation

Version 81.1 by Vincent Massol on 2013/05/06

XWiki is a Java-based wiki and runs on a Servlet Container such as Tomcat, Jetty, JBoss, WebLogic, WebSphere, etc. It also uses a relational database to store its content. It can run on almost any database (HSQL, MySQL, etc) but XWiki and the database need to be setup correctly.

There are 3 ways of installing XWiki:

  • Use the Standalone distribution which already packages a Servlet Container (Jetty) and a database (HSQL). This is the recommended option for first time XWiki users and for users who wish to quickly try out XWiki.
  • Use the WAR distribution and configure both your container and your database to work with it.
  • Use the .deb package to install the last version of XWiki and the dependencies.

If you're instead upgrading an existing XWiki install check the Upgrade instructions page.

Pick one of the trails in the outline on the right to get started.

Once you've finished the installation check the other topics in the Admin Guide for configuring and securing your wiki.

If you want to make a manual installation or need to migrate an existing XWiki installation, check the Release Notes.

Prerequisites

Tutorials

Tutorials are step by step procedures to install XWiki for a specific configuration. You can choose to follow one of them or follow the instructions in the sections below.

Tutorials external to the xwiki.org site have not been validated for correctness by the XWiki dev team and it's also possible that they are out of date.

Installation Methods

Using a standalone distribution 

It provides a built-in XWiki, with a portable database and a lightweight Java container.
A standalone distribution is not recommended in a production environment. If you need to use it in a production basis, you may look at the two other options.

Using .war package (usable for production)

It provides a java application package that has to be installed in a Java container (such as Tomcat). This can be used on almost any operating system.

Using .deb package (usable for production)

It provides a .deb package that can be used on a Debian-based operating system. It can be installed with dpkg or apt; installation is thus automated.

Troubleshooting

You can verify some basic settings of your XWiki installation (on Tomcat, MySQL) using the Admin Tools application. Keep in mind that some of these tools only work in a Linux environment.

Running multiple instances of XWiki in the same container

If you get this error:

com.xpn.xwiki.XWikiException: Error number 3 in 0: Could not initialize main XWiki context
Wrapped Exception: Failed to get cache factory component
...
Caused by:
org.infinispan.jmx.JmxDomainConflictException: Domain already registered org.xwiki.infinispan

You need to edit WEB-INF/cache/infinispan/config.xml for each instance of XWiki, and change the jmxDomain value (found under the globalJmxStatistics tag) to have a unique name.

Running XWiki behind proxy-server

Extension manager relies on remote repositories for searching and fetching available extensions, so if your XWiki is installed in a network accessing the internet through proxy-server, most likely extensions search will return you nothing and log files will contain connection refused exceptions.

In such cases you should configure XWiki to know your proxy-server.

XWiki uses default Java proxy configuration through Apache httpclient. See the Java Networking and Proxies documentation for more details.
The main idea is to add a set of proxy-related properties to system scope.

E.g. for Tomcat 6 it could be done in the following way: modify /<tomcat-home>/bin/catalina.sh and added proxies to the JAVA_OPTS variable definition:

JAVA_OPTS="$JAVA_OPTS -Dappserver.home=$CATALINA_HOME -Dappserver.base=$CATALINA_HOME -Dhttp.proxyHost=proxy.mycompany.com -Dhttp.proxyPort=7777 -Dhttps.proxyHost=proxy.mycompany.com -Dhttps.proxyPort=7777 -Xmx512m -XX:MaxPermSize=196m $XWIKI_OPTS"

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