Setup Collect Desktop in a server for a multi-user environment

Dear all,
If you want to use Collect in a multi-user environment, you can think about installing it in a server accessible remotely (or in the same local network) from different client computers.
Collect is just a web application that runs in a Application Server (e.g. Apache Tomcat).
You need to follow these steps:

• install Apache Tomcat 9 application server (Tomcat 10 is not supported yet):
• install Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 8+ (download Java)
• install PostgreSQL 8+ (download PostgreSQL)
• create an empty database called "collect"
• download:
• the latest version of the PostgreSQL JDBC driver
• the latest version of the SQLite JDBC driver
• put them into tomcat/libs folder
• download the latest version of the Collect war file
• put the war file into the tomcat/webapps folder and rename it into collect.war
• download the sample collect.xml file
• modify it with the correct database connection parameters
• put it inside tomcat/conf/Catalina/localhost

Update a multi-user installation of Collect
If you have already installed Collect for a multi-user environment and you want to update it to the latest version, follow these steps:

• shutdown Tomcat
• take a full backup of your database (if you are using PostgreSQL, use PGAdmin and take a backup with Custom format)
• move the file collect.war that is inside the tomcat/webapps folder into another location outside of the Tomcat folder
• download the latest version of the Collect war file
• put it inside tomcat/webapps folder and rename it into collect.war
• startup Tomcat

Open Foris Team