First steps with Appspy

Where to start ?

The easiest / fastest way to discover Appspy is to try our quick start bundle. It is a tomcat installation that contains all the components of Appsy. Since it contains several sample applications, it is not the ideal package for your real Appspy server installation.

Step 1 : Download the quickstart

Click here to download the quick start : org.appspy.distrib.quickstart-1.1-tomcat.zip

Step 2 : Start it

  1. Unzip the file
  2. Go into the "bin" directory
  3. (Unix only) chmod +x *.sh
  4. Launch startup.bat (Windows) / startup.sh (Unix)

Step 3 : Try it

  1. At first, visit the sample applications. As you browse the samples, Appspy will do its job : collect the informations about how you use the application and about how the application respond to your orders. There are three sample applications :
  2. Next, go to http://localhost:8888/org.appspy.viewer.webapp/ and browse the reports and the dashboards.
  3. (Optionnal) You can also have a look to http://localhost:8888/org.appspy.admin.webapp/ . With this application, you can customize the reports and the dashboard that will be available in the viewer application.

Next : What to do now ?

  1. Give us feedback : help us to improve Appspy http://forum.appspy.org
  2. Install your Appspy server