Install On Microsoft Windows XP

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CATS Installation Procedure Last Revised: 29 January 2009

OpenCATS Installation Procedure for Windows XP

1. New Installation (Windows) Prerequisites:
   1. XAMPP [ http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-windows.html]
   2. OpenCats Resume Indexing Tools [ http://www.opencats.org/downloads/setupResumeIndexingTools.exe]
      1. The Indexing tools contains these
         1. Antiword [1]
         2. PdfToText [2]
         3. html2text [ http://www.mbayer.de/html2text/ ]
         4. UnRTF [ http://www.gnu.org/software/unrtf/unrtf.html ]
   3. 7Zip or equivalent (http://www.7-zip.org)
2. Installation instructions are given for the XAMPP default install environment only. And Prequisite Installation notes below.
   1. Download and install XAMPP to c:\xampp by following the directions provided on the XAMPP website. Very easy.
   2. Download the OpenCats Resume Indexing Tools. Run the executable and accept the default install locations.
   3. Optionally download 7Zip and install. This will allow you to extract the tar ball and gz files later. If you already have an extractor then you may skip this step.
   4. Now you are ready to get OpenCats Download OpenCats - version 0.9.1a [ http://www.opencats.org ]
3. Open tarball (cats-0.9.1.tar.gz) using 7Zip and extract all files to C:\xampp\htdocs\opencats Verify that there is a readme.txt file in the directory C:\xampp\htdocs\opencats. If so you got it right :)
4. Launch phpMyAdmin. http://localhost/phpmyadmin/
   1. In the page that displays, type 'opencats' into the textbox under Create new database and click the Create button.
   2. Accept all the other defaults.
5. In your Web Browser, visit http://localhost/opencats If OpenCATS has been configured correctly, you should see a page that says: CATS has not yet been installed, or a previous installation was not completed. Please visit the Installation Wizard to continue.
6. Follow the link to the Installation Wizard to complete installation. When asked for database name, user, and password use database 'opencats', user 'root', and a blank password.
7. Next it will prompt you for the Resume Indexing Configuration. If you followed the steps above you may safely accept the default locations for Antiword, PDF2Text, HTML2Text and UnRTF.
8. Click the Test Configuration Button. All tests should pass successfully. Click the Next --> button.
9. Fill in your email address and click the Next --> button.
10. Configure your time zone and load the extras.
11. Congratulations. You can now log into OpenCats. Read the default username and password (Username: admin Password: cats) and click the Start CATS button or open a browser to http://localhost/opencats/index.php