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Main: ExamServer

Building the elateXam Server

runtime requirements

• JDK at least version 1.5
• maven 2.1.0+ to build the project
• tomcat 5.5+ installation

Setting up the environment

The following environment variables have to be set in the file /home/user/.profile (assuming you are running Linux)

export LANG=de_DE@euro.UTF-8

Download the sources

We use GIT to get a copy of the working directory:
- git clone http://github.com/smee/elatexam

Settings

1. Go to the directory where you downloaded the elateXam sources
2. edit {tomcat-path}/conf/server.xml file
   1. at element server change attribute to an unused port e.g. 8006
   2. add attribute address="127.0.0.1" to restrict unsecure access to localhost only. DO NOT remove this connector, this breaks the pdf bulk export feature...
   3. uncomment the SSL Connecter element
      set also to an unused port e.g. 8443
   4. add the following attributes to the connector element (be sure that is the SSL connector element)
      • scheme="https"
      • secure="true"
      • sslProtocol="TLS"
      • clientAuth="true"
      • truststoreFile="conf/server.truststore"
      • truststorePass="*******"
      • emptySessionPath="true"
      • useBodyEncodingForURI="false"
      • URIEncoding="UTF-8"

3. add to {tomcat-path/bin/catalina.{bat|sh}}:
   • {set|export} CATALINA_OPTS=-Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote -server
-Xmx786m -XX:MaxPermSize=256m

4. make sure you have already recent copies of the taskmodel artifacts (taskmodel-core, taskmodel-api, taskmodel-core-view), if not:
   1. Checkout the taskmodel sources: git clone http://github.com/smee/elatexam
   2. cd elatexam/taskmodel
   3. mvn install -PdeployTomcat -Dtomcat.path=/path/to/your/tomcat to deploy the view web application@@ to install all taskmodel artifacts
5. Now we deploy the webapp examServer.
   Execute this command in the examServer source directory:
   -mvn install -PdeployTomcat -Dtomcat.path=/path/to/your/tomcat
   - startup tomcat via: # ~/tomcat/bin/startup.sh

Running the Exam Server

Check if you fulfill following points

• You need the client certificate to authenticate yourself to the examserver
• initial user/password: admin/admin

Additional

If you use images in the complex-task-definition than

• put the images under tomcat/webapps/ROOT/
• in the definition use <img src="/path/in/ROOT"</img>

Install new client certificats

• get client-server-certs.zip and unpack
• need functional ant install
• edit build.xml to your needs, save
• run ant cer2pkcs12 to get self-signed-certificat
• after successful build you got
  • client.p12 for import to browser and java
  • server.truststore put to $TOMCAT_HOME/conf/
• edit $TOMCAT_HOME/conf/server.xml and put following attributs to your https connector as above