Using this thesis offline requires the following:

Setup Instructions

Welcome to the setup instructions for the adaptive body of the thesis: "Towards a Generic Distributed Adaptive Hypermedia Environment". The easiest method of reading this thesis is through the online version. But since you are reading this documentation you will probably want to use the offline version. This document will help you setup the proper environment.

GALE uses Apache Tomcat as the servlet container. This CD contains a preconfigured version of Tomcat that should run fine without any additional configuration. The default port for the web server is 8080 and can be changed through Tomcat configuration files. The steps to start this Tomcat version are as follows:

Continue... (after Tomcat was succesfully started)

Note that GALE needs Internet access to start. Once GALE / Tomcat is running you can read the thesis safely offline.

Custom Setup

To create your own environment, use one of the binaries in the 'binaries' directory on the CD. Beside the steps above, you will need to download Tomcat. We recommend the simple .zip or .tar.gz version instead of the installer versions as we have experienced problems during GALE installation. Copy one of the binary .war files and the 'thesis' directory to your Tomcat 'webapps' directory and start Tomcat. The thesis will be available on a URL like this:

http://localhost:8080/gale/concept/http://localhost:8080/thesis/thesis

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