Installing and uninstalling frePPLe is straightforward. After accepting the license agreement, the installer will guide you to select:
The installer has been tested on Windows XP, Windows 7 and Windows 8.
Prior to the installation, it is recommended to uninstall any previous version.
Start the installer
Accept the license agreement
FrePPLe is released with a dual license: you can choose either to apply the GNU Affero General Public License (aka AGPL) or to buy a commercial license.
Select the type of installation
If you have administrator rights on your computer, the installer will allow you choose to install frePPLe for your account only or for anybody logging in on the machine.
If you don’t have administrator rights, this screen will automatically be skipped. Nothing to worry about.
Select the installation directory
A default location is selected depending on the installation type.
Select the license file
The enterprise edition requires a license file to be activated. You get the license file when you register your copy on the support section of the website.
Select the components to install
Optional extra components can be enabled.
Select the installation parameters
Two types of parameters are specified during the installation:
Default language for the user interface
Database connection parameters
FrePPLe supports the PostgreSQL 9 and SQLite databases.
The SQLite database is included with frePPLe, allowing you to get started very quickly: No additional installations are required.
The installer detects you have the PostgreSQL database installed. If it is available you can fill in the parameters: the database name, the database user and its password, and the host and port number.
The PostgreSQL database and the database user have to be created by the database administrator. Make sure the database user has been created and has been granted sufficient privileges to create tables and indexes. The frePPLe database tables will be created further in the installation.
Your selections are saved in the file custom/djangosettings.py. The file can later be edited with a text editor.
Installation
During the actual installation you can see the list of installed files, and monitor the creation of the database schema (when using PostgreSQL).
Finish
At the end of the installation you can choose to start the server immediately.
For a test or development installation it is recommended to run the server as a system tray application.
For an installation in production mode AND when you have administrator rights on your computer, you can chose to register and start a service instead.
Start the server
FrePPLe’s user interface is web-based. You need to start the web server first in one of the following ways:
FrePPLe in the system tray:
FrePPLe as a service:
Open your browser http://localhost:8000/
You can type in the URL manually or double click the system tray icon.
An administrator user account is created initially: admin with password admin.
Tip
Change the password of the admin user as soon as possible.
Leaving the default password may be convenient, but is considered a security risk.
Tip
Multiple versions of frePPLe can be installed on the same machine.
Multiple installations of the same release can’t. If you’ld need such a setup, it is better to install once and create different copies of the custom folder. Each copy will get need different parameter file djangosettings.py.