How Do I Do Setup or Administrate the Server?

How do I...

Switch from internal authentication to LDAP?

Reset my password?

Upgrade to a new version of the Code Collaborator server?

Change administrative control (especially in LDAP)?

The easiest way to change authentication options is to re-run the installer again. There's no need to uninstall, just run the installer over the existing installation. From there, you can choose "LDAP Authentication" when asked and provide your LDAP credentials.

Sorry, you'll have to ask your Code Collaborator system administrator about this one.

If you are the administrator and lost your password, view our instructions how to reset your password here.

1) Back up first!

2) Note your Support and Upgrades date by going to Admin>Licensing . In the Current Licensing box, take note of the date next to the Upgrades Expire On: field. Make sure the version you want to upgrade to was released before this date. You can find this information by looking at the dates next to the version numbers in our Version History.

3) Run the new version installer over your existing installation and choose Existing Configurations when prompted.

Note: Be sure to fully read our Server Upgrades section in our Owner’s Manual here.

Administrative Access can be given to individual users by an existing administrator. Just have an administrator go to Admin>Users and edit the account you'd like to give administrative control to. On the Editing page, set the Is Administrator field to Yes. Administrative Access allows a user to access to all reviews, reports, and also edit any review.

The Special Administrator Account is a privileged account that is always allowed to login regardless of how many licenses are in use. With Internal Authentication, the special administrator account is always "admin". This cannot be changed.

With LDAP, there is one user assigned as the "System Administrator". If you would like to change this assignment, go to the ROOT.xml configuration file at $INSTALLDIR/tomcat/conf/Catalina/localhost/ROOT.xml. Near the bottom of that file is a line:

<Parameter description="The name of the Code Collaborator system administrator who is always allowed to log in." name="system-administrator" override="false" value="admin"/>

Change the value to the login name you'd like to set the account to:

<Parameter description="The name of the Code Collaborator system administrator who is always allowed to log in." name="system-administrator" override="false" value="XXXXXXXXXXXX"/>

where XXXXXXXXXXXX is the login name of the System Administrator. Then restart the service.