D3web-KnowWE Quickstart
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KnowWE is a Semantic Wiki for the development of knowledge-based applications.

System Requirements#

Installation of KnowWE requires the Java Platform, Standard Edition JDK 6 of 7. For operating systems, the distribution runs with MS-Windows XP, Windows 7 and Mac OS 10.6 or higher. Linux is not officially supported. We officially support Firefox 3.6 or higher and Google Chrome. Currently, the Internet Explorer is not officially supported.

Installation#

The binary distribution comes as a packaged installation, including Apache Tomcat 6 (http://tomcat.apache.org/) and JSPWiki 2.8.2 (http://www.jspwiki.org).
Just unzip the package and copy the produced folder to your desired location. You are then ready to start KnowWE.

Additional Notes:

Running KnowWE#

  1. Start server: In the unpacked directory, enter the directory bin and start the server by calling the script startup.bat (MS-Windows) or startup.sh (Mac OS X/Linux)
  2. Surf: Open your web browser and enter the link http://localhost:8080/KnowWE/


Configuration#

The standard KnowWE installation comes with the standard file provider, that does not support version control of the wiki content. You can change the file provider as well as other configurations (e.g., the folder of the wiki content, the encoding, or the style templates) in the file

KnowWE/webapps/KnowWE/WEB-INF/jspwiki.properties

Use a standard text editor to modify the file.