Install Magnolia
This page provides instructions on how to do a basic installation of Magnolia using the Magnolia CLI. You should do this before starting the Hello Magnolia for front-end developers tutorial.
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Get Java
Magnolia needs a Java Runtime Environment (JRE) from at least version 8.
See the Certified stack page to
confirm the latest supported Java version. Type java -version
in a
terminal or command prompt. If the system reports a version number, Java
is installed on your computer.
$ java -version
java version "10.0.1" 2018-04-17
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment 18.3 (build 10.0.1+10)
If you don’t have Java, install it:
Java is not pre-installed on Mac OS X 10.7 and later. Download the latest Java from Oracle.
On Windows you need a Java SE Development Kit (JDK). The Java Runtime Environment (JRE) is not enough because the Tomcat application server does not recognize it.
What is the difference?
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JRE is for users who run Java programs on their computer.
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JDK is for developers who write Java-based applications.
Download
and install JDK. By default JDK is installed in
C:\Program Files\Java\jdk-10.0.xx\
. You can choose another location.
Check JAVA_HOME environment variable
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Open the command prompt.
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Type
set
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Find
JAVA_HOME
in the command output and verify that the path points to your JDK installation directory, for exampleC:\Program Files\Java\jdk-10.0.xx
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If
JAVA_HOME
is missing or it points to the wrong directory, see Set JAVA_HOME environment variable below.
Set JAVA_HOME environment variable
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Right-click My Computer and select Properties.
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Go to the Advanced tab.
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If the
JAVA_HOME
environment variable does not exist in User variables or System variables, create it:-
User variables apply to the currently signed-in user only. Create
JAVA_HOME
here if you want it to apply only to the currently logged in user. These variables take precedence over system variables. -
System variables apply to all users. Create
JAVA_HOME
here if you want it to apply to all users. You must be an administrator to modify a system environment variable.
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Set the value of
JAVA_HOME
to the path of your JDK installation directory, for exampleC:\Program Files\Java\jdk-10.0.xx
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Optional step: Add the Magnolia
bin
directory to thePATH
variable, for exampleC:\Program Files\magnolia\apache-tomcat-x.y\bin
. Setting thePATH
allows you to issue the Magnoliastart
andstop
commands from anywhere without navigating to the installation directory first. Separate the path from existing paths with a semicolon ( ; ). If you do this, you also need to addCATALINA_HOME
to environment variables. Set the value ofCATALINA_HOME
to the Tomcat installation directory, for exampleC:\Program Files\magnolia\apache-tomcat-x.y
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Click OK.
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Go back to Check JAVA_HOME environment variable above and test that the variable is found and has the correct value. You need to open a new command prompt since environment variables are session specific.
Alternatively you can set JAVA_HOME with a batch file. Add this line to
/apache-tomcat/bin/magnolia_control.bat
:
set JAVA_HOME=C:\Program Files\Java\jdk-10.0.xx
The set
command creates the JAVA_HOME
environment variable and sets
its value to the JDK directory. The command is executed when Magnolia
starts.
Download the latest Java from Oracle.
The installation directory varies from one Linux system to another. For
example, on Ubuntu Linux 10 the OpenJDK Runtime Environment is installed
in /usr/lib/jvm/java-10-openjdk/jre
by default.
Download the latest Java from Oracle.
You can install it in any directory such as /usr/java
.
Get node.js
Magnolia CLI is an npm package providing a command line interface (CLI) tool to set up and facilitate light development with Magnolia. The Magnolia CLI tool runs on Node.js. If you do not have Node.js installed, go to Node.js and download and install the latest LTS version.
To check the version of your node installation, run the following command in a shell:
node -v
Get Magnolia CLI
Run the following command in a shell to install Magnolia CLI:
npm install @magnolia/cli -g
Depending on your permissions and the location where you have installed
Node.js, you may have to execute the command above with root
permissions. Without installation permissions you will notice messages
such as npm ERR!
in the shell.
On Linux or Mac OS X to run this command as root use:
sudo npm install @magnolia/cli -g
If the installation is successful, you see the following or a similar output in the shell:
/usr/bin/mgnl -> /usr/lib/node_modules/@magnolia/cli/bin/mgnl.js
> spawn-sync@1.0.15 postinstall /usr/lib/node_modules/@magnolia/cli/node_modules/spawn-sync
> node postinstall
+ @magnolia/cli@2.2.0
added 209 packages in 11.40
Once you have installed Magnolia CLI, test the installation by running the following command in the shell:
mgnl help
Usage: mgnl <command> [options] A tool to setup and facilitate light development with Magnolia CMS Options: -v, --version output the version number -h, --help output usage information Commands: jumpstart download and setup a Magnolia CMS instance for development. start start up a Magnolia CMS instance. To stop it, enter CTRL-C add-availability add component availability. build scan a node_modules folder for npm packages with the keyword "magnolia-light-module" (in package.json) and extract them to a directory of choice. create-app create an app. create-block create a block. create-component create a component and optionally add availability for it. create-content-type create a content type. create-light-module create a light module. create-page create a page template. create-virtual-uri create a virtual uri mapping. customize-local-config extract "mgnl-cli-prototypes" folder and "mgnl-cli.json" file to customize CLI configuration. install install a light module from npm to the local Magnolia instance. search search for a light module on npm. tab-completion install tab autocomplete feature for Bash, zsh or PowerShell version display mgnl and node.js versions help [cmd] display help for [cmd] mgnl: 3.1.0 node: v8.10.0 os: linux
Installing Magnolia with CLI only
Use the jumpstart
command to install Magnolia. This command downloads,
unpacks and pre-configures a Magnolia bundle of your choice.
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To install Magnolia:
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Change to the directory to where you want to install the Magnolia bundle. For example:
cd /Users/<username>/dev/
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Execute the Magnolia CLI
jumpstart
command:mgnl jumpstart
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Choose the
magnolia-community-demo-webapp
containing Magnolia Community Edition bundled with the Travel Demo and a Tomcat server. It creates folders for the Tomcat server and for the light modules according to the CLI configuration.Once the setup operation is complete, you should see a message similar to this one:
info Magnolia has been successfully setup for light development! info You can now open a new terminal tab or window and start it up with the CLI command 'mgnl start' info Magnolia will be ready after a few seconds at localhost:8080/magnoliaAuthor. Username and password is superuser
The following files and folders are created:
dev/ ├── apache-tomcat/ │ ├── bin/ │ ├── conf/ │ ├── lib/ │ ├── logs/ │ ├── temp/ │ └── webapps/ ├── light-modules/ └── downloads/
Start Magnolia with CLI
Go to the parent directory of the apache-tomcat
directory and execute
the Magnolia CLI start
command:
mgnl start
When starting for the first time, Magnolia runs a web update and automatically installs all its modules.
Login
Go to http://localhost:8080/magnoliaAuthor
and sign in as:
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Username:
superuser
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Password:
superuser
Magnolia is ready to use and gives you a list of suggestions to get started.
superuser is a system administrator account that
has permissions to do everything. It is useful for testing.
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