Making rapla ready for the multiuser scenario

The Client/Server Mode

If you want to take advantage of the webstart or applet distribution or the html-weekview you should download or build the webapp distribution. The webapp distribution includes a rapla-server. See [Webapp Installation] for more info.

To start the server use the raplaserver script.

raplaserver

starts a server and waits until you press Control-C

raplaserver & 

starts a server as a background process (Unix only)

raplaserver stop

stops a running server.

To start the client use

raplaclient

(under Windows)

rapla.sh client 

(under Unix)

You can login with username "admin" and empty password

To connect from a different host you need to change the server entry under messaging-client in raplaclient.xconf.

You don't need to configure the host if you're using webstart-clients,

;Note: If you want to install Rapla-Server as a SERVICE on Win NT/2000/XPdownload rapla-nt-service-x.x.zip from our download section.

;Note: To test multiuser functionality you can also comment out the default login-entry in rapla.xconf:

<!-- We comment out the username and the password to disable automatic login
    <username>admin</username>
    <password></password>
-->

Troubleshooting:

• See Installation first for java-related problems
• The most commen error will be long stacktrace with "Caused by: java.net.Bind Exception: Could not bind to port 8050" somewhere hidden between the lines. This means that either another rapla server is running (so stop or kill this process) or that this port is blocked by another application. You need to configure another the port in raplaclient.xconf and raplaserver.xconf.
• look in the troubleshooting faq under http://rapla.sourceforge.net/documentation.html