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Apache OfBiz Cookbook
To quickly ascertain if OFBiz has installed correctly and is ready for use, you may use your browser to view various OFBiz Application features, including the built-in e-commerce demonstration store.
Once OFBiz is unpacked and, if downloaded from the Subversion repository, built using the ant run-install command, you are ready to start the installation verification by observing the OFBiz e-commerce demonstration store.
To view the e-commerce demonstration store, follow these steps:
1. Change to the OFBiz install directory.
2. Start OFBiz using one of the startup scripts provided or directly from the command line.
3. Open a web browser and enter the URL of the OFBiz e-commerce Application demonstration website: http://localhost:8080/ecommerce
4. Observe the OFBiz e-commerce demonstration store's main web page. It should look something like the following:
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5. If the web page displays correctly, then you may be confident that at least the OFBiz database and web server software are operating correctly.
A quick and easy way to verify that your OFBiz download is working correctly is to start an instance and observe that one of the non-password protected Applications is operational. The OFBiz e-commerce Application, a fully-featured e-commerce website store, is a robust and demanding OFBiz Application. Running the e-commerce Application demonstrates and exercises many core OFBiz features including, but not limited to, successful operations of the following:
OFBiz Entity engine
OFBiz Service engine
Integrated web server (Apache Tomcat)
Integrated Java servlet container (Apache Catalina/Tomcat)
Network connectivity
Web browser UI compliance
If the main e-commerce web page is displayed and looks similar to that shown above then you may be confident that at least part of OFBiz is working correctly. This, however, should be considered simply the starting point.
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