Installing Altio on Vista Business Edition
Windows Vista Business Edition security can trip you up when trying to run Altio for the first time.
The simplest thing I have found is to:
- Install Altio.
- Before staring Altio Presentation Server change the security settings.
- Open Windows explorer.
- Go to the directory where Altio is installed e.g. Program Files.
- Select the Altio folder e.g. AltioStudioEnterprise5.2.
- Right click on the folder and select properties.
- Select the security tabclick on “Edit” button for “To change permissions, click…..”
- Select the “Users….” group.
- Select “Full Control” from the “Permissions for Users” list.
- Click OK.
- Now start Altio - everything should run as expected.
The reason you need to change security settings is that Windows provides restricted user access to the “Program Files” directory, so when Tomcat tries to unpack the WAR file it can’t.
