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Advanced Database Setup for RoboHelp Server 8

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 05:58:45 GMT

By default RoboHelp Server 8 gets installed with MS Access as the database which is suitable for internal use or in a development environment.
But for production environment, users should use Microsoft SQL Server/Oracle/SQL Server Express.
Steps to configure oracle/sql server as database –
1) Launch the Config Manager and select File > Open Context and select the context for which you want to configure the database.
2) Select radio button "Oracle 9i or higher/Microsoft SQL Server/SQL Server Express Edition".
3) Create a system DSN using ODBC administrator. To do so, click on the “ODBC Admin” button. This will launch the “ODBC Data Source Administrator”. Click on the “System DSN” tab and then click on “Add” button and select the driver type depending on the kind of database your are using. Then give the Database server details and the user name and password to connect to the database. Press OK.
4) Now select this newly created DSN from the “Select DSN” drop down.
5) In the username, password fields, specify the username and password used to create the DSN.
6) Click “Save”.
7) You can verify if RoboHelp Server has all the information to connect to the database by clicking “Test Connection”. If connection details are OK, it should show a dialog box saying “Successfully connected to database”.
8) Close Config Manager using File>Exit.

Tulika.
RoboHelp Server Team.
Adobe Systems.

RoboHelp Server 8

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 12:23:18 GMT

Hello,

I am starting this thread to give an introduction to RoboHelp Server 8. Any comments and questions are most welcome.

RoboHelp Server 8 is completely rewritten in Java and is much more stable and robust than previous versions.
Installation is much more simplified now.

One major difference from earlier versions is now RoboHelp Server 8 does not need IIS Server. Instead it uses tomcat server.

You can download RoboHelp Server 8 trial version from http://www.adobe.com/downloads/

Prerequisite for installing RoboHelp Server 8
• Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 1.5 or higher
• Tomcat 6.0.14 (or 6.0.16)

Steps to install RoboHelp Server 8
1) Install JRE and Tomcat.
2) Verify tomcat is up and running by visiting url : http://localhost:8080
3) Launch setup.exe of RoboHelp Server 8
4) RoboHelp Server 8 should get installed. Launch Config Manager from the desktop.
5) Select the database you want to use for RoboHelp server 8 installation.
6) Click save and then close Config Manager.
7) Now open RoboHelp Server web admin url in browser: http://localhost:8080/robohelp/admin
8) Web Admin login page should get opened up.
9) Use default user name “admin” and password ”admin” to log in.
10) RoboHelp Server 8 web admin should get launched.

I shall talk about new features of RoboHelp Server 8 in follow-up thread.
If you run into any issues while installing RoboHelp Server 8, please post your queries here.

Tulika.
RoboHelp Server Team.
Adobe Systems.