Introduction

This current doc will guide you to install correctly iXPath and will give more details about each present configuration. 

Installation methods :

The installation can be done in 2 ways :

1. Online Installation: this installation requires downloading some resources online, so it's necessary to have an internet network, then complete the installation.
2. Offline Installation: this installation requires the existence of resources on a hard disk or any sources of storage (CD / USB ...), and does not require an internet network. 

I - First Installation (Première installation)

1) Online Installation

The online installation uses remote resources, which makes the internet connection mandatory.

if no window displays, please make sure of the existence of the "bin" directory, that contains the java virtual machine to launch the iXPath installation.

Click on "Pemière installation", and it redirects you to the window below, which gives you the components needed to be installed.

Installation components : 

• Portail: frontend code of iXPath
• Moteur (Engine): backend package of iXPath code source. it will install two services: COM (running on port 8091) and Engine (running on port 8090), so please make sure to free these ports, or you can change both of them in the configuration that will be explained later in this document.
• Base de données: Script to install the database with all the newest updates.
• MySQL: Relational database management system installation.
• WebServer (Apache & PHP): Apache server and PHP installation for both "Moteur" and "Portail"
• RabbitMQ & Erlang.

if you already have the RabbitMQ component installed, uncheck it. 

the installation begins with the broker RabbitMQ, and it uses Erlang OTP which is mandatory for its functioning.

uncheck "Erlang Documentation" as shown below :  

After that, it comes the installation of RabbitMQ : 

Next, continue the installation of RabbitMQ, followed by the installation of the "Moteur"/Engine.

Congrats !!! you have installed iXPath successfully, and you can log in to the app on the "http://localhost" URL and use "admin" as user and "admin" as password.

2) Offline installation

As mentioned before, the offline installation does not require an internet network.

Click on the executable "ixpath.exe"

Then click on "Première installation", and will pop up this window indicating that no internet connection has been detected: 

Click on "Oui"/yes.

if the "Install.zip" does not exist in the same directory as "Ixpath.exe", mention the directory where it belongs: 

Eg: if the path is "C:/InstallationIxpath/Install.zip", you will fill in the field with "C:/InstallationIxpath/". And the Installation begins...

Accept the 3 Windows authorizations that will pop up during the installation. they are related to 3 components: "Database", "WebServer" and "Engine".

Congrats !!! you have installed iXPath successfully, and you can log in to the app on the "http://localhost" URL and use "admin" as user and "admin" as password.

II - Architecture of iXPath :

here is a brief presentation of the roles of each component in the iXPath app.

III - Update

Updating the iXPath app or just some components goes exactly the same as the online installation, which makes the internet network necessary to fetch any updates from the remote resources.

IV - Configurations & Services

there are configuration files that help to maintain all needed parameters for the functioning of iXPath.

• config.properties: configuration of the Engine. here we can configure ports, directories, hosts ...
• config.ini: Configuration of "Portail". here we configure all parameters to connect Engine to Portail.

1) Ports

• As mentioned before, iXPath takes 8090 (Engine) and 8091 (COM) automatically as ports.
  if in any case, you want to change them, go to ./SERVER/engine/ixEngine.cmd script and change them to wanted ports, then execute the script on administrator mode. 
  For example, we want to change the Engine port to 9090 and the COM port to 9091 
  
  
  and make the changes on ./SERVER/engine/config.properties : 
  
  
  
  and same for  ./SERVER/wwwroot/  : 
  
   
• the Engine also uses ports 22920 and 22921 for FTP and FTPS respectively 
  
   
• SFTP port : 
  
  
   

NB: You can change all these COM ports via the iXPath interface directly, by selecting the configuration target 

and change the port from the system configuration:

2) services

• To maintain services on your operating system, go to the search bar and type "services.msc" : 

the services related to iXPath are : 

here you can start, restart, pause, or stop the service target by right-clicking on it and choosing the option needed : 

NB: all services must be running to run the iXPath app correctly.

• if the Apache service cannot be on running status because of unavailability of port 80, please follow these steps :
  • open a command line and type :  netstat -aon | findstr :80
    
     
  • Next, you type the command: tasklist /fi  "pid eq 4" 
    
  • stop and disable the following services :
    • world wide web publishing service (W3SVC)
    • windows activation service (WAS)
    • SQL Server Reporting Services (ReportServer)
    • BranchCache (PeerDistSvc)
    • Network Connection Broker (NcbService) 
  • •  

• stop and disable the following services : 
  • world wide web publishing service (W3SVC)