Navigate to the Installer tool using a browser. Visit the installer directory under the SoftSlate Commerce installation you've deployed. For example, if you deployed SoftSlate Commerce under the /softslate context and you have Tomcat running on port 8080, you would go to this URL: http://<yourhostname>:8080/softslate/installer

Follow the instructions given by the Installer tool to finish installing SoftSlate Commerce. The Installer tool will ask you how to connect to the database and will ask you to provide key configuration settings. It will then attempt to connect to the database, install all the database objects, and initialize the settings.

If you have installed using the .tar.gz file, following a successful installation you may wish to change the permissions of the /WEB-INF/conf/keys directory and the /WEB-INF/classes/appSettings.properties file back for better security.

[root@server root]# cd /user/local/jakarta-tomcat/webapps
[root@server webapps]# chown <restricteduser>.<restricteduser> softslate/WEB-INF/conf/keys
[root@server webapps]# chown <restricteduser>.<restricteduser>
softslate/WEB-INF/classes/appSettings.properties
[root@server webapps]# chmod g-w softslate/WEB-INF/conf/keys
[root@server webapps]# chmod g-w softslate/WEB-INF/classes/appSettings.properties
						

After a successful installation, please consider visiting the Getting Started chapter to begin working with SoftSlate Commerce.