Hosting WIRIS cas in a Windows server

Motivation

WIRIS cas "hosting in your server" is only officially released for a Linux server. Some users have requested a Windows version so we provide a workaround to install the WIRIS cas server components into a Windows server.

WIRIS cas can be installed in a Windows server following the same architecture as the Linux case:

1. It requires the installation of Java and a Java Application Server like Tomcat. A java Web application must be deployed (war file).
2. The daemon engine must be launched somehow. At present there is no Windows service to do this task.

Installation procedure

1. Follow the same instructions as the Linux components.
2. Download and copy the WIRIS cas windows kernel at the folder <wiris>/kernel in such a way that the following file must exist <wiris>/kernel/windows/OmegaKernel.exe (where <wiris> is the folder where the WIRIS cas daemon engine was copied). There is no need to remove the Linux kernel because the WIRIS cas server will detect automatically that is running under Windows.

Launching the daemon engine

From the command line,

cd <wiris>/server
java -Xmx128m Server

note that the java program should be in the command path. 

Using omega_start.sh script to launch the daemon has the benefit to run it in background, however it will need that cygwin is installed.