{"id":956,"date":"2019-08-23T16:58:03","date_gmt":"2019-08-23T20:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/nmai\/?page_id=956"},"modified":"2026-02-10T10:24:55","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T15:24:55","slug":"u-p2p-p2pedia-installation-instructions","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/nmai\/u-p2p-p2pedia-installation-instructions\/","title":{"rendered":"U-P2P\/P2Pedia Installation Instructions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n U-P2P\/P2Pedia Installation Instructions\n <\/h1>\n \n \n <\/header>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n
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So you’ve downloaded a zip file containing UP2P (or P2Pedia, the distribution of U-P2P containing only the P2Pedia wiki system). Now what?<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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A – Binary distribution<\/b><\/div>\n\n\n\n
If you just want to run the prepackaged U-P2P distribution, it’s easy, all you need is the Java JDK version 1.6 or later.<\/div>\n\n\n\n
Steps:<\/div>\n\n\n\n
1 – Extract the contents the of the zip file to any directory of your choice. For example, to a new directory on the desktop called “UP2P” .<\/div>\n\n\n\n
2 – Check that you have Java installed, and that the JAVA_HOME environment variable points to the folder containing your JDK.
\nFor example, a typical location under Windows would be: JAVA_HOME=C:\\Program Files\\Java\\jdk1.6.0_27<\/div>\n\n\n\n
3 – Open the folder where you extracted U-P2P. Then inside this folder, open the folder called “Tomcat”, and inside the Tomcat folder, open the “bin” folder. Run the file “startup.bat”  (under windows) or “startup.sh” under linux or Mac-OS.<\/div>\n\n\n\n
4 – The Apache Tomcat server will now fire up, and you can access your local UP2P node using any web browser (UP2P works best with Firefox or Chrome — there have been some minor issues with Internet Explorer). Connect your browser to the following URL: http:\/\/localhost:8080\/up2p\/<\/a>.<\/div>\n\n\n\n
5 – The U-P2P home page contains lots of information to get started!<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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B – UP2P source distribution<\/b><\/div>\n\n\n\n
C – Configuration <\/b><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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For now please see the U-P2P user guide<\/a>.<\/i><\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
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D – Troubleshooting<\/b><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Not working ?<\/div>\n\n\n\n
Here are the most common problems and their solutions:<\/div>\n\n\n\n
1 – Problem<\/i>: It won’t even start. I double click on “startup.bat” and nothing happens. A window appears for a fraction of a second then disappears again.<\/div>\n\n\n\n
    Solution:<\/i> Your JAVA_HOME environment variable probably isn’t set properly. See the user guide for more details about setting environment variables ( the user guide is a pdf document packaged in the UP2P zip file).<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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2 – Problem<\/i>: Tomcat starts then closes with an error when it tries to bind to port 8080.<\/div>\n
    Solution:<\/i> Tomcat is configured to run on port 8080. Your port 8080 may be in use. Change the tomcat server configuration to run on another port.<\/div>\n
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3 – Problem:<\/i> I can’t find anything in the network.<\/div>\n
    Solution:<\/i> Connect to other nodes.At the top  right corner of the screen there’s a link saying “Connected to [number] peers”.
\nConnect to your friends. Ask them for their IP and port, and add them to your hostcache, in order to connect to them.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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So you’ve downloaded a zip file containing UP2P (or P2Pedia, the distribution of U-P2P containing only the P2Pedia wiki system). Now what? A – Binary distribution If you just want to run the prepackaged U-P2P distribution, it’s easy, all you need is the Java JDK version 1.6 or later. Steps: 1 – Extract the contents […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cu_dining_location_slug":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_page_type":[],"class_list":["post-956","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/nmai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/nmai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/nmai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/nmai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/nmai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=956"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/nmai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":957,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/nmai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/956\/revisions\/957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/nmai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_page_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/nmai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_page_type?post=956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}