Copy the PhixFlow Webapp into Tomcat

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

1. Copy phixflow-datasource.xml.<database>.example to phixflow-datasource.xml

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2. Edit the properties for <bean id="dataSource".....

For example:

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

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Initially, simply copy the example file phixflow-instance.xml.example to phixflow-instance.xml.

Configure phixflow-login.xml

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phixflowDomainsXmlInstall phixflowDomainsXmlInstall

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phixflow-login phixflow-login

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The PhixFlow webapp can be configured to authenticate users’ usernames and passwords against an external Domain / Active Directory or SAML Single Sign-on server e.g. Active Directory Federation Services server.

Initially, simply copy the example file phixflow-login.xml.example to phixflow-login.xml.

See also Configure Login Forms.

Configure logback.

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logging logging

 

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logback logback

The logback.xml file controls detailed event/error logging on the server.

The phixflow-logging.xml file contains the location of the main log file directory, used when downloading log files from the front end.

To configure for default logging:

1. Open or cd to $TOMCAT/webapps/phixflow/WEB-INF/classes
2. Copy logback.xml.example to logback.xml
3. Copy phixflow-logging.xml.example to phixflow-logging.xml
4. Open phixflow-logging.xml and set the location of your log directory (usually the logs directory in the tomcat installation). Save and close the file.

It is not Initially, simply copy the example file logback.xml.example to logback.xml.

For instructions on how to change the name of the log file generated, see below.

Please contact PhixFlow Support for instructions on how to integrate this into other logging frameworks (e.g. Google Cloud's stackdriver).

It is not normally necessary to make any further changes to these files this file unless so instructed by PhixFlow Support.

Configure phixflow-logging.xml 

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phixflow-logging phixflow-logging

The phixflow-logging.xml file contains a list of directories that contain log files, and is used when downloading log files from the GUI.

Initially, simply copy the example file phixflow-logging.xml.example to phixflow-logging.xml.

It is not necessary to make any further changes to this file unless so instructed by PhixFlow Support.

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/

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cp $RELEASE/webapps/phixflow to $TOMCAT/webapps/alternative_namemywebapp

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“mywebapp” is the name of your test system.

phixflow-datasource.xml

Be sure to set up a separate user and schema in the database for the new PhixFlow instance and to set phixflow-datasource.xml as needed

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logback.xml

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renamingLogFile renamingLogFile

My default, the settings in this file will send messages from all phixflow webapps to the same log file (phixflow.log); this can be confusing as it may not be clear which webapp has generated which messages, and for this reason we recommend that when installing multiple PhixFlow webapps in the same tomcat, you change each webapp to log to a separate log file, thus:

This example shows

line 3: messages re-directed initially to logs/mywebapp.log

line 6: messages re-directed after daily rollover to logs/mywebapp.yyyy-MM-dd.log.

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 <appender name="FILE" class="ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.RollingFileAppender">
    <file>logs/mywebapp.log</file>
    <rollingPolicy class="ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.TimeBasedRollingPolicy">        
      <!-- daily rollover -->
      <fileNamePattern>logs/mywebapp.%d{yyyy-MM-dd}.log</fileNamePattern>
      <maxHistory>30</maxHistory>
    </rollingPolicy>
    <encoder>
      <pattern>%date %level [%thread] %logger{10} [%file:%line] %msg%n</pattern>
    </encoder>
  </appender>
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