Copy the PhixFlow Webapp into Tomcat

To install the PhixFlow web application into Tomcat:

Copy $RELEASE/webapps/phixflow to $TOMCAT/webapps/phixflow

Configure the Webapp

A number of configuration files must be copied from supplied templates and configured.

Configure phixflow-datasource.xml

The PhixFlow webapp must be configured to give access to the database user that has been created to hold the PhixFlow data.

copy Copy phixflow-datasource.xml.<database>.example to phixflow-datasource.xml, then

edit Edit the properties for <bean id="dataSource"...., e. g.For example:

<property name="url">
	<value>[CONNECTION STRING]</value>
</property>
<property name="username">
	<value>[USERNAME]</value>
</property>
<property name="password">
	<value>[PASSWORD]</value>
</property>

Connection Strings

The connection strings given here should cover most cases of connecting to PhixFlow's own database. For more details, see Database URLs for information about how connection strings are constructed for the various database platforms supported by PhixFlow, see Database URLs.

The platform-specific [CONNECTION STRING]s are:

...

log4j.appender.myAppender.file=logs/ alternative_name.log

Using Your own Logo in PhixFlow

Optionally, you can configure PhixFlow to display your own company logo. You need a vector graphic .svg file of your logo, renamed as customerLogo.svg (case sensitive). Add the file to  $TOMCAT/webapps/phixflow/gui/images/