Windows Getting Started

Warning Windows Explorer's built-in "compressed folder" functionality is reported to incorrectly unzip the Hippo CMS and Hippo Repository binary distributions. Windows users are adviced to use a third-party ZIP utility, e.g. 7-Zip.

Install Java

• Go to http://java.sun.com and install the latest version of the J2SE 1.4.2 SDK (currently this is 1.4.2_15).
• Please read Sun's documentation on http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/install-windows.html about how to set your PATH environment variable and guidelines to perform the installation correctly.
• Set the JAVA_HOME environment variable (See Flash guide here: Windows - setting JAVA_HOME environment variable.swf)

Download Hippo Repository

• Download the latest build from
  http://repository.hippocms.org/hippo-repository/v1.2.x/
• Unzip the build into a folder on your harddisk, for example c:\hippo\hippo-repository-1.2.0
• Open a command prompt by clicking on Start > Run > cmd
• Type
  • cd \hippo\hippo-repository-1.2.0\bin (where 1.2.0 is the version you downloaded)
  • wrapper -c wrapper.conf
• Open a webbrowser and navigate to http://localhost:60000/default
• You should get a login popup
• Enter the username "root" and password "password"
• Congratulations, your Hippo Repository is running!

Download Hippo CMS

• Download the latest build from
  http://repository.hippocms.org/hippo-cms/v6.x/
• Unzip the build into a folder on your harddisk, for example C:\hippo\hippo-cms-v6.04.02
• Open a command prompt by clicking on Start > Run > cmd
• Type
  • cd \hippo\hippo-cms-v6.04.02\bin (where 6.04.02 is the version you downloaded)
  • wrapper -c wrapper.conf
• Open a webbrowser and navigate to http://localhost:50000/
• You should get a login popup
• Enter the username "root" and password "password"
• Congratulations, your Hippo CMS is running!

Download Cocoon

• Download the latest source distribution from http://cocoon.apache.org/mirror.cgi
• Unzip Cocoon into a folder on your harddisk, for example C:\hippo\cocoon-2.1.8
• Open a command prompt by clicking on Start > Run > cmd
• Type
  • cd \hippo\cocoon-2.1.8 (where 2.1.8 is the version you downloaded)
  • build (wait ~5 minutes)
  • cocoon servlet
• Open a webbrowser and navigate to http://localhost:8888/
• You should get the Cocoon welcome page!

Download the Hippo CMS sample website

1. Download the latest sources from
   http://repository.hippocms.org/hippo-cms-samplesite/
2. Unzip the sources into a folder on your harddisk, for example c:\hippo\hippo-cms-site-sample
3. In the Cocoon directory (c:\hippo\cocoon-2.1.8), rename mount-table.xml.sample to mount-table.xml and add the following line within the <mount-table> element:
4. <mount uri-prefix="hippo-sample/" src="file://c:/hippo/hippo-cms-site-sample/" />
   where the src path must be replaced by the exact location of the Hippo CMS sample site files.
5. Open "http://localhost:8888/hippo-sample/" in your browser.
6. Congratulations, your Hippo CMS demo site is running!