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Contributing

Requirements

You'll need the following software to run DHIS2 on your machine:

  • Java 8
  • Maven
  • Tomcat

Fork

Go to GitHub and fork the repository under your account.

Clone the repository:

git clone git@github.com:dhis2/dhis2-core.git

Install

Go in the repo and run maven:

cd dhis-2
mvn install
cd dhis-web
mvn install -U

Each project in the /dhis-2/dhis-web directory is an individual web module. The dhis-web-portal project is an assembly of all the individual web modules.

This should create a ready to use war in /dhis-2/dhis-web/dhis-web-portal/target

Run locally

Deploy the war in Tomcat using either the manager or a simple copy to the webapp directory:

cp dhis.war /opt/tomcat/webapps

Before starting tomcat, you need to create a DHIS2_HOME pointing to a folder on your machine:

 export DHIS2_HOME=~/dhis2_home

this folder will host the dhis.conf file with at minimum your database settings. To start as fast as possible, you can use the H2 in memory database using the following configuration:

connection.dialect = org.hibernate.dialect.H2Dialect
connection.driver_class = org.h2.Driver
connection.url = jdbc:h2:./database/dhis2;AUTO_SERVER=TRUE;DB_CLOSE_ON_EXIT=FALSE
connection.username = sa
connection.password =

You can get such a file in your DHIS2_HOME folder with a simple call:

 wget -O $DHIS2_HOME/dhis.conf https://gist.githubusercontent.com/vanakenm/87b729fbf78ec52ca4c5da7856c62584/raw/9554680c8ab62d7f2bbecc3847406fa17d551a2e/dhis.conf

You can now start tomcat and go to localhost:8080/dhis - get in with admin/district as user/password.

Alternative - Build and run in Docker

It is possible to build and run DHIS2 with Docker, on any operating system with no dependencies on local Java, Maven, or Tomcat, refer to the documentation.