eXo Social Installation Guide

1 Requirements

1.1 Server

• You can use Windows but we recommended Linux (2.6 Kernel).
• We recommend to use the JDK version minimum 1.5 with the latest patches.
• We recommend at least 1Gb of RAM and at least one 1.5 Ghz processor.
• For optimal performance, we recommend to have 2Gb of Ram and 2 core.
• The default database is HSQLDB, it's there only for demonstration purpose, it should be changed to another database such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle...
• For optimal performance, it's better to run the database on a separate server

1.2 Browser

eXo Social is tested in the following browsers :

• Internet Explorer 6 and 7
• Firefox 2 and 3

2 Setup

• Download the latest version of eXo Social, At the time of writing this page, it's

• Unzip it into any directory, we will call this directory $EXO_HOME

2.1 on Linux / MacOS

• execute :

$ chmod +x $EXO_HOME/exo-tomcat/bin/*.sh
$ $EXO_HOME/exo-tomcat/bin/eXo.sh run

2.2 on Windows

• execute :

$EXO_HOME/exo-tomcat/bin/eXo.bat run

2.3 Database Setup

see Database Configuration