Local Development

Important: The Java application server and MySQL database are not included as part of the kinetic Service annual fee. These technologies are available on an as-requested basis for an additional fee. Contact David Drum at david@more.net or (800) 509-6673 for additional information.

You can install and configure the following tools for developing and testing your web site and web applications on your local computer system. The distributions provided by MOREnet allow you to create a local development environment on your PC that closely matches the environments on kinetic Service production servers.

Overview
Please read the overview before you begin setting up your local system

Apache Web Server (All Windows versions)

Java 2 SDK (All Windows versions)

MySQL Database Server (All Windows versions)

Tomcat Application Server (All Windows versions)

Note: tomcat4-noapache.zip contains the older, standalone version of Tomcat that is not configured to work with Apache. Unzip this file to a temporary location for the Tomcat distribution and installation instructions. This file is available for a limited time and is not supported. It is replaced with the version referenced by the documentation in the Tomcat Application Server link above.