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Mac OSX Getting Started

Download Hippo Repository

  • Download the latest build from
    http://repository.hippocms.org/hippo-repository/v1.2.x/
  • Unzip the build into a folder on your harddisk, for example ~/hippo/hippo-repository-1.2.13
  • Open a console (if you haven't already done)
  • Type
    • ./fortress.sh start (to start)
    • ./fortress.sh stop (to stop)
  • Open a webbrowser and navigate to http://localhost:60000/default
  • You should get a login popup
  • Enter the username "root" and password "password"
  • Congratulations, your Hippo Repository is running!

Download Hippo CMS

  • Download the latest build from
    http://repository.hippocms.org/hippo-cms/v6.x/
  • Unzip the build into a folder on your harddisk, for example ~/hippo/hippo-cms-v6.05.01
  • Open a console (if you haven't already done)
  • Type
    • cd ~hippo/hippo-cms-v6.03.01/bin (where 6.03.01 is the version you downloaded)
    • chmod u+x fortress.sh (give execute permissions)
    • ./fortress.sh start (to start)
    • ./fortress.sh stop (to stop)
  • Open a webbrowser and navigate to http://localhost:50000/
  • You should see the login window
  • Enter the username "root" and password "password"
  • Congratulations, your Hippo CMS is running!

Download Cocoon

  • Download the latest source distribution from http://cocoon.apache.org/mirror.cgi
  • Unzip Cocoon into a folder on your harddisk, for example ~/hippo/cocoon-2.1.8
  • Open a console (if you haven't already done)
  • Type
    • cd ~/hippo/cocoon-2.1.8 (where 2.1.8 is the version you downloaded)
    • ./build.sh  (wait ~5 minutes)
    • ./cocoon.sh servlet
  • Open a webbrowser and navigate to http://localhost:8888/
  • You should get the Cocoon welcome page!

Download the Hippo CMS sample website

  1. Download the latest sources from
    http://repository.hippocms.org/hippo-cms-samplesite/
  2. Unzip the sources into a folder on your harddisk, for example ~/hippo/hippo-cms-site-sample
  3. In the Cocoon directory (~/hippo/cocoon-2.1.8), rename mount-table.xml.sample to mount-table.xml and add the following line within the <mount-table> element:
  4. <mount uri-prefix="hippo-sample/" xsrc="file://~/hippo/hippo-cms-site-sample/" />
    where the src path must be replaced by the exact location of the Hippo CMS sample site files.
  5. Open http://localhost:8888/hippo-sample/ in your browser.
  6. Congratulations, your Hippo CMS demo site is running!