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Users with special needs, i.e. very large sites, upgrading from pre 1.2 Roller, customized data models, can choose not use auto-install. By setting installation.type=manual they can choose to do upgrades the old way, running scripts by hand.

To These are the steps to install Roller with auto-install these are the steps:

STEP 0 - Prerequisites: Java 5, Roller supported database, Servlet 2.4 container and JDBC driver jar in Servlet container's classpath.

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STEP 3 - Deploy roller.war to your Servlet container and browse to context URI. If there is a database connection error, you'll see details in the browser. If tables need creation or upgrade, Roller will do it automatically for you on your commantcommand.

Here are the specific changes to be made to enable property based installation/configuration:

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