Windows installer

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Installing and uninstalling frePPLe is straightforward, and follows the normal Windows conventions.

After accepting the licence agreement, the installer will guide you to select:

  • The components to install
  • The installation directory
  • The database connection parameters

With all options included the installation requires less than 25 MB of disk space.

  1. Select the components to install.
  2. Select the installation directory.
  3. Select the installation parameters.
    Two types of parameters are specified during the installation:
    1. language for the user interface
    2. database connection parameters
    FrePPLe supports the MysSQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite and Oracle databases. The installer will detect which of those you have installed on you computer and allow you to choose one. The SQLite database is included with frePPLe, allowing you to get started very quickly.
    For MySQL, Oracle and PostgreSQL you need to specify the database name, the database user and its password, and the host and port number of the database engine. The database and the database user have to be created by the database administrator. The frePPLe database tables will be created when you first start the server.
    For SQLite you only need to specify the database name.
    You selections are saved in the file server/settings.py. The file can later be edited with a text editor when required.
  4. Finish
    At the end of the installation you can choose to start the server immediately.
    Point your browser to the url, and you're up and running!

The installer provides:

  • Command line application
  • Server application which bundles a python interpreter, python libraries, web server, django web application and database
  • Documentation
  • Development libraries
  • Source code

It is possible to have multiple installations in parallel on the same computer. They need to be installed in different directories, and you need to set the environment variable FREPPLE_HOME to point to the directory with the version you want to run.