{"id":213,"date":"2006-11-26T15:26:46","date_gmt":"2006-11-26T22:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/2006\/11\/26\/turn-pentaho-demo-into-a-server\/"},"modified":"2006-11-26T15:26:46","modified_gmt":"2006-11-26T22:26:46","slug":"turn-pentaho-demo-into-a-server","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/2006\/11\/26\/turn-pentaho-demo-into-a-server\/","title":{"rendered":"Turn Pentaho demo into a &quot;server&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The standard <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pentaho.org\/download\">Pentaho demo download<\/a> is super quick and easy: there&#8217;s no installation and it just works.&nbsp; You double click start-pentaho.bat and then it&#8217;s running in http:\/\/localhost:8080.<\/p>\n<p>However, sometimes you may want to share this demo with others.&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/rpbouman.blogspot.com\">Roland Bouman<\/a> has a <a href=\"http:\/\/rpbouman.blogspot.com\/2006\/07\/hands-on-mysql-samples-for-pentaho-2_12.html\">nice blog entry<\/a> on the specifics of how to change the demo install into a server.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>I add the following line to my start-pentaho.sh to make the hostname changing transparent.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>sed -i -e &#8220;s\/http:\\\/\\\/.*:8080\/http:\\\/\\\/`hostname -f`:8080\/&#8221; jboss\/server\/default\/deploy\/pentaho.war\/WEB-INF\/web.xml<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This allows one to move this &#8220;pentaho&#8221; to any system and it will startup properly with the http:\/\/actualhostname.company.com:8080 instead of http:\/\/localhost:8080.&nbsp; I download a new build of Pentaho on about a weekly basis in addition to preparing virtual machines and zipped installs for customers, partners.&nbsp; This little shortcut is an absolute must for me; it doesn&#8217;t make sense in the actual code release for a variety of reasons.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps someone else will find this little tidbit useful!&nbsp; Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The standard Pentaho demo download is super quick and easy: there&#8217;s no installation and it just works.&nbsp; You double click start-pentaho.bat and then it&#8217;s running in http:\/\/localhost:8080. However, sometimes you may want to share this demo with others.&nbsp; Roland Bouman has a nice blog entry on the specifics of how to change the demo install [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}