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To install the FEWS Web Services at least the Tomcat 7 application server is required. See: https://tomcat.apache.org/download-70.cgi. The requirements of the Java version to be used for Tomcat is the same as for the FEWS version that is being used.
This installation guide assumes a newly installed Tomcat 7 or Tomcat 8 application server. For migrating existing installations from before FEWS 2017.02, see the paragraph on Migrationmigrating.
The root of the tomcat installation is referred to as "${catalina.home}" and will be used from here. The root of a tomcat installation can be recognized by the webapps and conf directories.
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In this folder a clientConfig.xml is required to configure a stand alone or Direct direct database access client. In the following code snippet the configuration of a Stand alone client can be seen.
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