Installation of Mifos X through github

1) Before beginning, uninstall any existing versions of Java currently on your computer. 

2) In your web browser, go to http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk8-downloads-2133151.html, to download JAVA 1.8.

3) Oracle requires that you read the license agreement, then click the button labeled Accept License Agreement.

4) Click the link to download with respect to you system architect i.e Windows x86 for 32bit or Windows x64 for 64bit. 

5) Save the Java installation file to your computer

6) Run & install the Java file.

1) In your web browser, go tohttp://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/5.5.html#downloads.To download MYSQL server 5.5v.

Click on download button with respect to you system architect i.e Windows x86 for 32bit or Windows x64 for 64bit.

2) You can skip this option by clicking the link at the bottom of the page that says No thanks, just start my download.  
& Click on the Save file to your system.

 3) Run the MySQL installation file.Click on Typical button and click on Next button. 

4) During MySQL installation, use Advanced Configuration > Show Advanced Options& set the MySQL ROOT Password to mysql. Then click on Save button.So your user name will be root and password will be mysql. 

1) In your web browser, go to http://tomcat.apache.org/download-70.cgi to download tomcat 7.

 >> Under the section Binary Distributions>>Core, click on the link 32-bit windows zip or 64-bit windows zip( with respect to your system architect) to download.

2) Extract apache-tomcat-7.0.68.zip:- 

  4) Folder: apache-tomcat-7.0.68, gets extracted:-      

5) Copy & Paste apache-tomcat-7.0.68 folder to c:\(drive) then Rename it to tomcat 

1) Open your Environment Variables:
Start Menu > Control Panel > System and Security > System > Advanced System Settings >Environment Variables.

• Click on the New button, under the User Variables section.
• For Variable Name, enter JAVA_HOME
• For Variable Value,Provide the Java path for example:-C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_66
  NOTE: 
  i - If you are running 32-bit Windows, then the path would be ex:- C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jdk1.8.0_66
  ii - Java jdk path "jdk1.8.0_66" will be with respect to the installed version and it may not be the same as mentioned in the above example.  
  
• Click the OK button.

• In the System Variables section, scroll down to and select the Path variable.
• Click the Edit button just below.
  
• Click your mouse cursor into Variable Value box. 
  Using your keyboard's right-arrow or End key, move all the way to the far right of the current text in Variable Value.
• Add the following text onto the end of the existing Variable Value text: 
  - For Java path example:- ;C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_66\bin 
  - For Mysql server path example:- ;C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.5\bin
  
  NOTE: 
  i - There must be exactly one semi-colon between whatever is already in your PATH variable, and the new C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_66\bin – don't add a semi-colon if your previous PATH already ended with a semi-colon.
  ii - Java jdk path "jdk1.8.0_66" will be with respect to the installed version and it may not be the same as mentioned in the above example. 
  
  
• Click the OK button  

4) Create JAVA_OPTS variable: 

• a. Click the New... button again, under the User Variables section.
• b. For Variable Name, enter JAVA_OPTS
• c. For Variable Value, example -Xms512m -Xmx1024m 
  Note: Variable value example can be changed with respect to the system memory size for example: -Xms512m -Xmx1024m 

1) Create new directory ex: fineract 

2) Open git bash, through git bash  

>> Go inside the created folder(ex-fineract) then execute, this will download platform code:-   

git clone https://github.com/apache/incubator-fineract

Wait for download completion and move to next step once it's done.

3) Go to, incubator-fineract>>fineract-provider

then execute below command

gradle clean dist

 once successful move to next step

 4) Go to incubator-fineract\fineract-provider\build\distributions>>then unzip fineract-platform

1) Download HEIDISQL from:- http://www.heidisql.com/download.php & Save the installation file to your computer.

2) Run the Heidisql installation file & setup Heidisql: 

i) For local - Provide mysql password as mysql. 

ii) Click on Save button.

iii) Click on open button. 

4) Copy the following database command and paste it into the large white box titled Query 
create database `mifosplatform-tenants`; create database `mifostenant-default`; use `mifosplatform-tenants`;

5) Click on Run button to Execute the query. . 

6) On heidisql, click on File>>Load SQL file..

7) Through Load SQL file window,

• Navigate to the location where you extracted the Mifos application files.
• Navigate to the database folder, inside that location.
• Select the file mifospltaform-tenants-first-time-install.sql and click Open.

Run the first-time-install script, by clicking Run Query button & once its successful close heidisql application.

1) Setting up Lib folder

a) Download drizzle jdbc 1.3 jar file from http://www.drizzle.org/content/download

b) Once it's downloaded copy & paste it to libfolder, Go to Tomcat>>lib folder. 

Note: If tomcat-jdbc.jar file is not available in the tomcat>>lib folder then you could download and paste it from:http://www.java2s.com/Code/JarDownload/tomcat-jdbc/tomcat-jdbc.jar.zip

2) Generate keystore

 Generate a new keystore using java keytool :

>> Open command prompt 
>> Go to the path where your JAVA>>bin folder is located. 
>> Run this command to generate the key: keytool -genkey -alias tomcat -keyalg RSA
>> Then provide the password. 
For example: 


Provide input and type in y for the last question to confirm. 


Note: Once the keystore is created, it should be placed in your home directory. For Example:C:/Users/john/.keystore

3) Configure server.xml page,

a) Go to  tomcat>>conf>>open server.xml with notepad:

4) Save modified server.xml page

Press Ctrl + S or File>Save. 

 5) Close Notepad. 

1) fineract-provider.war to tomcat>>webapps folder

 Copy "fineract-provider.war" file from unziped folder, C:\fineract\incubator-fineract\fineract-provider\build\distributions\fineractplatform-16.01.2.RELEASE

2) Paste it to tomcat\webapps folder

1) Go to "C:\tomcat\bin" folder, Run "startup.bat" by clicking it.

Note: You can create a shortcut  of "startup.bat" on your desktop and rename it as start mifosx.  

2) Application gets started

3) Once server starts, will display as "Server startup in xxxxx ms"

4) Open below mentioned url in internet broswer and authenticate(for the first time).

https://localhost:8443/fineract-provider/api/v1/clients?tenantIdentifier=default

5) Fineract-platform is ready to be used. You could pass the api requests by following our api documents available in the path: C:\fineract\incubator-fineract\fineract-provider\build\distributions\fineractplatform-16.01.2.RELEASE >> api docs. For info on using rest client refer Using rest client for passing api requests