Installation and Administration

Basic installation merely requires installing a recent version of SWI-Prolog and unpacking ClioPatria (see Download.txt). Next, ClioPatria may be deployed in two ways as described in the sections below. Using ClioPatria as an application that can be extended is probaly the best choice for setting up a new server. Using it as a library is probably a good choice to add ClioPatria -temporary- to an application.

Installation as application

Running ClioPatria as an application requires a few steps:

1. Create the start-file run.pl from run.pl.in. On Unix, this is achieved by running ./configure from the top directory. On Windows by double-clicking setup.pl.
2. Optionally, pull in configuration files according to config-enabled/README.txt. Example config files are available from config-available and described in config-available/README.txt.
3. Start run.pl as ./run.pl on Unix or double-clicking run.pl on Windows and direct your browser to the indicated address (default is http://localhost:3020/. The first time, you will be asked to enter an admin password. This protects some web-operations, such as managing settings and loading/unloading RDF.

If you want to extend the application, there are two options. One is to put a Prolog file with the desired extensions in config-enabled. Another is to run the installation steps (configure or setup.pl) from another directory. This creates run.pl and config-enabled in the current working directory, after which the extensions can be placed in config-enabled.

Use as library

To use ClioPatria as a library, one can simply compile cliopatria.pl. The file run.pl as generated from installation as an application gives additional actions you may want to setup. The web-server is started by cp_server/0, but the system runs happily if the Prolog threaded HTTP server (see library(http/thread_httpd)) is started in another way, as long as the server uses http_dispatch/1 for dispatching HTTP requests.