Running a Custom Jetspeed Portal

Running the portal is very straight forward. In this tutorial we are running our Jetspeed portal in a Tomcat application server. To start up the portal, go to the command line and enter:

	 
cd tomcat-express
cd bin
# Windows
catdebug 
# Linux
./catdebug.sh
     
	

The first time we run the portal, its going to take a minute or so to complete the initial deployment of the portal and Admin portlet application.

Open up a browser and navigate to http://localhost:8080/jetexpress/portal

You should see the minimal core Jetspeed portal as shown below. Login with the credentials admin/admin. You will be prompted to change the admin password. As you can see, this is a boiler plate, minimal portal. Press the Next button to get started on customizing Jetspeed.

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