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So you want to install the community version, and give it a try with a files system ? This page is made for you:

Requirements :

  • Debian7 or higher Environment 64 bits (a Docker image is available if you are on Windows environment)
  • Recommended version is Debian 8 (if you are on Debian 7 you will need to add the testing repo in /etc/apt/sources.list)
  • Processor : Minimum 1GHZ, recommended 2+GHz Quad Core
  • RAM : Min 8GB, recommended 16GB
  • Ports 8080, 5432, 9200, 5601 are opened
  • Debian environment : requires curl, debconf, unzip, sudo, libc6-dev, jq, lsof

How to install and start Datafari :

You can build the Debian installer with the ant script Datafari/debian7/build.xml. You can download Debian installer and Docker image from www.datafari.com.

  1. Install Datafari : # dpkg -i datafari.deb
  2. Start Datafari with a non root user: # cd /opt/datafari/bin # bash start-datafari.sh
  3. Stop Datafari : # cd /opt/datafari/bin # bash stop-datafari.sh

You can find video tutorials on how to install and start Datafari from the installer (Warning: the videos are for version 3.1) :

- Debian : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8L0A6SKWXP0

If you want to use the jcifs connector in ManifoldCF:

  • download jcifs-1.3.xx.jar from http://jcifs.samba.org/src/ to DATAFARI_SOURCE_DIR\mcf\mcf_home\connector-lib-proprietary
  • Then edit the file Datafari/mcf/mcf_home/connectors.xml and uncomment the line : <!--repositoryconnector name="Windows shares" class="org.apache.manifoldcf.crawler.connectors.sharedrive.SharedDriveConnector"/-->
  • And restart Datafari

You have to configure your Repository connector and job to add documents to Datafari. You can find a video tutorial on how to index local file share here (Warning: the videos are for version 3.1) : https://youtu.be/8L0A6SKWXP0?t=3m8s

You can find documentation on how to create connectors and jobs here : http://manifoldcf.apache.org/release/trunk/en_US/end-user-documentation.html:


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