This section describes how you would start up the server and the clients:
To start up the jLogbook server, just go to the start menu and click on the Programs->jLogbook->jLogbook option. A command shell will appear and provide a message similar to this:
2005-01-19 14:04:13: dblogin: dbname = jLogbookDemo.mdb,
dbuser = admin
Listening on port 8080
To use the server, open a web browser at http://<name of
machine>:8080/
Where <name of machine> will show the name of the machine in which the server is running.
Alternatively, you may start the jLogbook server from a command shell. You would need to:
A message similar to the one above will appear.
Note on startup options:
There are various startup options that you can use when starting up the jLogbook server. For example, you can specify the port number to use (if you don't want to use the 8080 default). To find out what options are available, just start the jLogbook server from the command line with the option --help. I.e:
jLogbookserver --help
You will get a message that shows the many options. Typically, the format of the options are
jLogbookserver --optionname variable --optionname2 variable2 etc.
For example, to start up using the port 8086, you would enter
jLogbookserver --port 8086
In another example, you may want to start the server and a browser which will automatically go to the correct Instance. In this case, you could use:
jLogbookserver --port 8086 --instance=Demo --startbrowser
To start the apache web server, just left click on the apache icon in the tray (it looks like a feather) and click on the start or restart option. Apache will use the configuration you have defined in the installation process and will restart.
To start the jLogbook application from a client machine, just start up the browser (typically Internet Explorer or Firefox) and enter the url:
http://<nameofserver>:<portnumber
where <nameofserver> is the name of the machine in which you installed jLogbook and started the server on and
<portnumber> is the port number you have configured. With jLogbookserver, this is by default 8080 and for apache you do not have to enter a port number.
Example: For jLogbookserver you would enter:
http://logserver:8080
and for an apache server machine,
http://logserver