I want to make everybody out there aware who wants to try Bika LIMS 2.1 'Inkosi' on their Windows XP or Windows Vista machine, that there is now an easy install file (executable) for Bika LIMS, the only pre-requisite is to have Plone 2.5.5 installed. The executable was created by our partners at the University of Costa Rica, to which we, at Bika Lab Systems, owe many thanks!
Here the original mail and link copied in (originally posted on the Bika Developer Mailing List):
Recently we made an executable file that installs Bika LIMS 2.1 Inkosi directly in Windows XP (and Windows Vista) without having to change anything to have it running. The only requirement is that Plone 2 has to be installed in 'C:/Program Files/Plone 2/', but maybe later we can make an installation file that checks the plone 2 path and install bika according to it. In the meanwhile here is this file, maybe it can be helpful to someone, greetings.
Bika LIMS 2.1 Inkosi Setup
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Andrés Oreamuno.
Centro de Investigación en Contaminación Ambiental
Universidad de Costa Rica
This news and the file will soon also appear on our website
Installation Notes:
Once you've run the set-up programme, you need to run the IDServer and Zope. Go to Zope Management Interface and add a new Plone Site, with Extension Profile 'bika'. And you should be up and running!
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Easy Setup file for Bika 2.1 Inkosi on Windows XP & Vista
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Just do not make the same mistake as I did, installing a newer version of Plone.
Above version 2.5.5 it just will not work (for now)!
Cas, could you detail why or what errors you received when trying with Plone 2.5.5?
I could create a new Plone site but was not able to select the Bika extension profile.
Please check that the 'bika' and related products are in your Plone2/Products directory. If not then the executable was unable to create these products.
If they are, then also make sure you have restarted Zope after the products were installed. Then you should see the Bika extension profile.
InfoGizmo: Pls note that Plone 3 is not yet supported. Only Plone 2.5.5 is supported!
I have a problem, I try to install bika in my windows server 2003 system. The system are in D:\windows, the port 80 ad 8080 are in use,(I want to use port 87 and 8087) and my program files are in D:\programmi. How can I do to install it. What should I change.
Zenricos,to change the ports, you need to edit the zope.conf file, on Windows this should be @ C:\Program Files\Plone 2\Data\etc\zope.conf
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