Title:  Installing Apache Rave
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## Download a distribution package
Releases of Apache Rave are available for [download][1]. 

## Build a distribution package
To build your own distribution with default settings follow these steps:

  - Get the [source][4]
  - Build your distribution package with

    `$ mvn -Pdist`

## Deploy the distribution
In the directory rave-portal/target you can find the rave-<version>-bin.tar.gz and 
rave-<version>-bin.zip file that contains the full Apache Tomcat 6 installation. 
The contents of these archives are identical. Unpack one of these archives on your server
and go to the Tomcat directory in the console or command prompt.

### Start Tomcat
Unix

    $ ./bin/startup.sh

Windows

    > bin\startup.bat

## Visit the portal
Open url [http://localhost:8080/portal][2] in a browser.

### Stop Tomcat
Unix

    $ ./bin/shutdown.sh

Windows

    > bin\shutdown.bat

For more Tomcat options, see the [Tomcat 6.0 documentation][3].

 
[1]: ../downloads.html
[2]: http://localhost:8080/portal
[3]: http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/index.html
[4]: ../source.html