Existing OpenEdge 11.3 Installation and installing Rollbase

Posted by Sandy Caiado on 27-Nov-2013 12:03

This post applies to OpenEdge 11.3.  

If you have Progress Developer's Studio 11.3, and you are going to install Rollbase and use the OpenEdge Database that comes with Rollbase for testing, please be sure you do the following:

* Install OpenEdge 11.3.1 patch first

* Install Rollbase Private Cloud

***IMPORTANT: when installing Rollbase, be sure to change the port that will be used for the OpenEdge database that comes with Rollbase: for example, change the port number to be 8911

* You need to set two environment variables:

ROLLBASE_HOME : point this to your installation directory for Rollbase

JRE_HOME: point this to the installation of Java that was installed with Rollbase (or be sure you point it to where you have Java 1.7 installed)

* Modify the startup.bat located in your Rollbase\db directory

Add the following:

setlocal

set procfg=c:\Progress\Rollbase\db\progress.cfg  (your path may be different, you need to adjust this to point to the progress.cfg file located in your Rollbase\db installation directory)

* Once you have done the above, you should be able to start the server for the database by executing the startup.bat script from a proenv window that was executed from your Rollbase installation

* Execute the startup.bat script to start the Tomcat server for Rollbase: in your Rollbase installation directory\apache-tomcat-7.0.42/bin/startup.bat

* You should now be able to bring up a browser window and log into Rollbase

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Posted by Bill Wood on 02-Feb-2014 11:12

Thanks, Sandy.  One note is that the database that comes with Rollbase is licensed for embedded use (by Rollbase) only.  That is, you can administer the database for backup, restore, and maintance purposes, but you should not add your own relational tables to it, or access these from ABL or other SQL clients.

If you want a database that contains your own relational tables, and which is used by Rollbase for its store, then you should take your own 11.3.1 (or 11.3.2) database -- separately licensed - and then point Rollbase to that database.

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