KitabGhar

An online eBook Portal build on J2EE Platform using Java Servlets and JSP.

Technolgies Used:

• J2EE: Java Servlets & JSP
• MySQL Database
• Bootstrap4 as UI Framework

Building & Running the Project(Linux):

1. Clone the project using git clone https://github.com/jaykay12/KitabGhar.git
2. Install Tomcat7 on your workspace: sudo apt-get install tomcat7 tomcat7-admin tomcat7-docs tomcat7-examples
3. Hit 127.0.0.1:8080/ from your web browser, if Tomcat7 landing page loads, you are good to go.
4. Open repository using cd KitabGhar
5. Open MySQL in your workspace using mysql -u [username] -p & then create a DB for KitabGhar using CREATE DATABASE kitabghar
6. Populate the DB using MySQL dump file using mysql -u [username] -p kitabghar < KitabGhar.sql
7. Create a soft link of the web-app to the tomcat7 root folder using cd /var/lib/tomcat7/webapps/ and sudo ln -s <SYSTEM_PATH_GITHUB_REPO>/KitabGhar/KitabGhar KitabGhar
8. Start Tomcat7 server using sudo /etc/init.d/tomcat7 start
9. Hit 127.0.0.1:8080/KitabGhar from your web browser.
10. Explore the project, find bugs, raise issues & make pull requests. Happy Hacking 😄