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2.3 Starting a Server

Figure 1. Server maintenance menu.

With all files as above, start the server by running the meplus executable with meserver.im as an argument. From the main server menu, select Maintenance | Set Databases Roots Filename, clear the directory field and accept artbase.roo as the filename. Next select Maintenance | Browse Databases Roots, and a Databases Roots Browser will open (see Section 3.3.1). There should be one repository shown with its path. Select this and from the pop-up menu change the path of the repository if necessary to be the relative path from the start-up directory to the repository (probably just the single name of the directory with that repository in). Next, choose edit manager.ab from the pop-up menu, and correct the path on the first line to be that of the directory where this database’s manager.ab file is. Choose save from the editor window pop-up menu, and close the editor. Choose save from the Roots Browser pop-up menu, and close the roots browser, saying OK to the warning dialog that appears.

Now choose Server Start Up, and select the name of the repository from the pop-up list that appears. You will be prompted for a socket number, and should accept the default 6666 unless you know this is already in use. You will be prompted for your login name (sysadmin) and your password (initially also sysadmin). These can be changed later.

At this stage the server has been started on the repository, and nobody is logged in: the password request was to verify your authorisation to start the server on that repository.

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