Installing Teamwork Server

In order to install Teamwork Server, you need both the server program and a valid license key. If you have purchased Teamwork Server, you can download both of them from your customer account. If you are going to evaluate Teamwork Server, you can download the product from our official website and receive the evaluation key through E-mail. Get them ready, and read through this page to install the Teamwork Server. Before you start, make sure you have a machine ready for the installation of Teamwork Server. The minimum requirement of such machine is that it must be accessible by client machines through network, either Intranet or Internet.

1. Having downloaded the zipped Visual Paradigm Server to the server machine, extract it to the folder where you want the Teamwork Server to install to. When finish, you obtain a folder VPServer.
   

   Extracting the zipped VP Server

2. Start up the server by running VPServer\scripts\startup.bat file (startup.sh for Linux and Mac OS X). You may see a command console appear. Do NOT close it or else the server will be stopped.
   

   Command console

3. Open your Web browser and visit: http://127.0.0.1:1999/
4. The server installation page appears. Enter your organization's name and a new administrator password. Enter the same password again for confirmation. Click Select Module at bottom right to proceed.
   

   Organization name and password are entered

5. In the Select Module page, select the module(s) you need to activate. Select Teamwork Module.
   

   Select Teamwork Module

   NOTE:

   You can select more than one modules. In this user's guide only the Teamwork Module will be covered. If you want to know the details about the other supported modules, please check from their user's guides.

6. Click Configure Database/Module at bottom right. The Configure Database page appears.
7. There is data that VP Server need to make persistent, such as your login name, password, server repository path, etc. All these have to be stored in a database. Initially the Embedded database would be selected for you. The Embedded database is a ready-to-use database management system built into the server. In other words, no additional database setup has to be made by choosing Embedded database. If you want to store data in an external database, click Change and fill in the connection information of the database. You need to prepare an empty database if you take the option of external database.

   Going to select a database

8. Click Configure Module at bottom right. The Configure Teamwork Module page appears.
9. Specify the folder path of repository. Repository is where the project files will be stored. If you are uncertain, just leave it unchanged.
10. Click the Browse button in the License Key section and import the license key of Teamwork Server.
11. Click Finish at bottom right to complete the installation. Now, you can start adding users and projects. For detailed instruction, read the next section for server administration.