Shinydrive
Shinydrive Administration Shinydrive 365 Administration Shinydrive End-user
Shinydrive
Shinydrive Administration Shinydrive 365 Administration Shinydrive End-user
Breadcrumbs

Installing Shinydrive Server for OpenText Content Server

Ensure you have reviewed the hardware requirements and installed the prerequisites.

Installation checklist

Make sure the following items are handy for the Shinydrive server installation:

  • Shinydrive Suite download folder (provided by Shinydocs)
  • Shinydrive Suite license key (from Shinydocs)
  • Apache Tomcat 10
    • Running with Java 21

Installing Shinydrive Server

  1. On the Shinydrive server, open Services

  2. Locate and Stop the Tomcat 10 service

  3. Right-click on the Shinydrive Suite ZIP file and select Properties

  4. Under the General tab, select Unblock and Apply                 

  5. Right-click on the Shinydrive Suite ZIP file and select Extract All... 

  6. Open the Shinydrive Suite folder

  7. Open the server folder and locate the shinydrive-server.war file

  8. Copy the shinydrive-server.war file into the webapps folder of your Tomcat 10 folder (for example, C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 10\webapps) 

  9. Return to the Shinydrive Suite folder

  10. Verify the Apache Tomcat 10 webapps folder now contains the following file:

    • shinydrive-server.war

  11. Start your Apache Tomcat 10 service

  12. After a few moments, on the server’s web browser, navigate to http://localhost:8080/shinydrive-server/admin (replace 8080 with the port you have configured for Tomcat).

  13. You will be prompted to create the administrator password for Shinydrive Server, keep it in a safe place.

  14. Proceed with configuring Shinydrive Server.

Congratulations! You have completed installing Shinydrive Server. You are now ready to configure your Content Server and install the Shinydrive Client.