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We prefer to use a tested tarball with exist installed the way we have it at the moment. That removes the need to deal with all the specific exist issues such as add in libraries etc. The current example can be found on kwantu4 in /home/willem/installation/exist.tar.gz

1. Extract this in the following location: /usr/local/
2. Create the required data directories if not yet there. /usr/local/data/exist_data
3. Make sure that the growing user is created (we will use it later)
4. Copy the start and stop scripts into /opt/
5. Make sure that the javaFiles installation in /usr/local/java is present
6. Start exist-db
7. Copy the backup and restore scripts in /Scripts

This can be a bit of a tricky process. Follow the following steps

1. Use the exist web interface and trigger a backup on the production server that serves as a basis for the app
2. Copy the zipped backup and unzip it in /tmp/db ....
3. Prepare the restore script to look as follows.

#!/bin/bash
export JAVA_HOME="/usr/local/java"
export EXIST_HOME="/usr/local/exist"
cd /usr/local/exist

/usr/local/exist/bin/backup.sh -u admin -r '/tmp/db/__contents__.xml' &
#/usr/local/exist/bin/backup.sh -u admin -p admin -r '/tmp/db/__contents__.xml' &

#done
echo Done 
exit 0

4. Run this script once, it will start but then give an error unAuthenticated. That is normal. Now comment the first line and uncomment the second

#/usr/local/exist/bin/backup.sh -u admin -r '/tmp/db/__contents__.xml' &
/usr/local/exist/bin/backup.sh -u admin -p admin -r '/tmp/db/__contents__.xml' &

5. Run the script again. It should now run through smoothly right up to completion. Note that there will be a message of some script that need to be run.
6. Open exist-db web view in the browser using the following URL. Make sure that port 8080 is open. If it is blocked, then you need to proxy it through nginx. Install and set up nginx and then see below.

http://<hostname>:8080/exist/apps/dashboard/index.html

7. See the result of the backup.

...
Finished restore of backup.

If you restored collections inside /db/apps, you may want
to rebuild the application repository. To do so, run the following query
as admin:

import module namespace repair="http://exist-db.org/xquery/repo/repair"
at "resource:org/exist/xquery/modules/expathrepo/repair.xql";
repair:clean-all(),
repair:repair()

8. Open exist IDE in the browser, and execute the script above replacing all references of the server url to the current.

http://localhost:8080/exist/apps/eXide/index.html

9. Install fonts

yum install curl cabextract xorg-x11-font-utils fontconfig
rpm -i https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/mscorefonts2/rpms/msttcore-fonts-installer-2.6-1.noarch.rpm

To verify if your fonts are installed properly run following commands

sudo fc-cache -fv
fc-list | grep "Arial"

If you do not find any result in grep then install above packages using "reinstall" command again.

# for http port
./tools/jetty/etc/jetty-http.xml
# for https port
./tools/jetty/etc/jetty-ssl.xml:14: