Setting the Hostname is not required. You can just use localhost
as the hostname to access Ambience, if you
are accessing Ambience from the same system as where Ambience is installed.
However, if you want the Ambience server to be available to other machines across the network, you
cannot use the localhost default, and need to use the fully qualified domain name of the server system to access it. To facilitate access, ensure that the server's Fully Qualified Domain Name (hostname) is set to the server's IP address in /etc/hosts
(on Unix/Linux/Mac),
or in \windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
(on Windows).
To determine the system's hostname, open a command prompt or terminal, and type the command:
hostname
Open the hosts file and associate the hostname with the system's IP address. For example,
192.168.1.6 ambience-server.example.com
Next, contact your IT department and ask them to set up the appropriate DNS record for the Ambience server.
You have to enable symbolic links on your system as Ambience needs to create symbolic links during its course of operation.
On Unix and Linux, symbolic links are automatically enabled. Perform the following steps to enable symbolic links on Windows.
secpol.msc
using Start
or Start -> Run
.Security Settings -> Local Policies -> User Rights Assignment
.Create symbolic links
item, which represents SeCreateSymbolicLinkPrivilege
.For advice on obtaining the latest release of Elixir Ambience, contact sales@elixirtech.com
. For technical support on how to use
Elixir Ambience effectively, contact support@elixirtech.com
.
tar -xvzf elx-ambience-3.5.0.tgz
. This extracts
all the files into a directory called ElixirAmbience
.
If you downloaded a zip file, extract it with the extractor installed on your system. Linux users can run the command:
unzip zip-file-name.zip
to unzip the file. Substitute the correct zip file in the unzip command.
For example,
unzip elx-ambience-3.5.0.zip
. This extracts
all the files into a directory called ElixirAmbience
.
Windows users should NOT extract the files into the \Program Files\
folder, as Microsoft controls the permissions of this subtree to
prevent programs writing there. As the generic installation writes
into the ElixirAmbience\data
folder by default, this can cause access
denied problems when working with regular user accounts. Use any other folder (For example: C:\
) to extract the files.
bin
directory inside
the ElixirAmbience
directory. For example:
cd ElixirAmbience/bin
sh run-server.sh
. On windows run run-server.bat
http://<hostname>:8080
to access the Ambience page.The etc
directory inside the ElixirAmbience
directory contains the configuration files for Ambience.
The log files are stored in the log
directory inside the ElixirAmbience
directory.