How to Install Antville on Windows 11

Antville is a free, open-source content management system and blogging platform written in Java. In this tutorial, you will learn how to install Antville on Windows 11.

Prerequisites

Before we begin, make sure you have the following:

• A computer running Windows 11
• Java Development Kit (JDK) version 8 or later
• Apache Ant version 1.9.0 or later
• A web server (e.g., Apache HTTP Server, NGINX)

Steps

1. Download the Antville source code from https://antville.org/
2. Extract the downloaded file to a directory of your choice.
3. Open Command Prompt or PowerShell and navigate to the directory where Antville is installed.
4. Rename the site-config-example.js file to site-config.js using the following command:

ren site-config-example.js site-config.js

5. Edit the site-config.js file to configure your Antville instance. You will need to modify the following settings:

   • hostname: the domain name or IP address where your Antville instance will be hosted
   • httpPort: the port number for HTTP requests
   • httpsPort: the port number for HTTPS requests (set to 0 if you do not want to enable HTTPS)
   • dbName: the name of the database to be used by Antville
   • dbUser: the username for the database
   • dbPassword: the password for the database user
   • mailFrom: the email address to be used as the sender address for emails sent by Antville

6. In the same directory, run the following command to build the Antville WAR file:

ant war -Dtarget=antville

7. Copy the antville.war file from the dist directory to your web server's webapps directory.

8. Start your web server and access Antville by navigating to http://hostname:port/antville/ in your web browser.

Congratulations! You've successfully installed Antville on your Windows 11 machine.

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