Webservice: VisualDiff

This document describes the installation of VisualDiff from BlueSpice. VisualDiff is a exclusive component of BlueSpice pro! Please note that the Apache Tomcat server must be installed and configured on the BlueSpice server.

Tip for this Document

• Please, read this manual completely and work through the single installtion steps one after another. 
• For editing the configuration files with a text editor, the files must be saved in UTF-8 coding without BOM (Byte Order Mark).
• The placeholder <installpath-bluespice> stands for the path to your BlueSpice installation, e.g C:\inetpub\wwwroot\bluespice (Windows) or /var/www/bluespice (Linux).
• The placeholder <tomcat-webapps> stands for the path to the Webapps directory of your Tomcat server, e.g. C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 8.5\webapps (Windows) or /var/lib/tomcat8/webapps (Linux).

Kopieren der BShtmlDiff Anwendung

Move the file "BShtmlDiff.war" from the directory <installpath-bluespice>/extensions/BlueSpiceVisualDiff/VisualDiff/webservices to <tomcat-webapps>

Restart Tomcat

Restart the Tomcat Webserver like described here.

This already completes the installation of VisualDiff.

Troubleshooting

If there is a problem with VisualDiff in BlueSpice, first check the file system permissions.