For the CANON project, Jnaneshwar Das at USC wanted to get SSDS installed to manage the data from their gliders. He setup a WindowsXP machine with the following information:

1. Hostname: amphisbaena.usc.edu
2. Static IP: 128.125.125.51
3. Username: kevin

Here are the steps I took to install and configure SSDS (all the downloaded files went into the 'SSDS Installation' directory on the Desktop):

1. I logged in to the Windows machine using Remote Desktop
2. I opened up Internet Explorer and browsed to http://java.sun.com
3. I downloaded Java SE 6 JDK and ran the .exe to install it
   1. I am weird, but I changed the default installation location to C:\bin\Java\jdk1.6.0_18 (I hate spaces in directories and paths)
   2. Same with the JRE, I installed it to C:\bin\Java\jre6
   3. Also, create an environment variable for JAVA_HOME and point it to the Java JDK location
4. After installing Java, I browsed to http://ant.apache.org and downloaded Ant 1.8.0 (I won't go through the steps here, but don't forget to add the ANT_HOME environment variable and the ANT_HOME\bin directory to the PATH environment variable
5. I installed the Apache HTTP server by browsing to http://httpd.apache.org and I downloaded the Win32 Binary including OpenSSL for 2.2.15
   1. Again, 'cause I am weird and old, I installed it to C:\bin\Apache2.2 and accepted the default values

      Did not use Apache Turns out IIS was installed already, so I just used that

6. In order to use IIS to get HTTP access to SSDS files, I had to configure it for directory browsing.
   1. Under Control Panel->Administrative Tools->Internet Information Services, right-click on Default Web Site and select Properties.
   2. Then on the Home Directory tab, check the box next to Directory browsing.
7. I created the directory C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\ssdsdata where I will have SSDS store everything. With the data there, it will then be HTTP accessible.
8. I then browsed to http://jboss.org and downloaded JBoss 4.2.2GA and unzipped it to the C:\bin\jboss-4.2.2GA directory
   1. I started up JBoss from the command line and noticed that port 8080 had been taken by the SQL services. I shutdown all SQL services, started JBoss so it could claim those ports, then restarted the SQL components.
9. I then installed SmartSVN so that I could get the code from the Google SVN server.
10. I started up SmartSVN and added a repository for Google code:
    1. SVN Location: http://shore-side-data-system.googlecode.com/svn/trunk
    2. Read only username: shore-side-data-system-read-only
11. I checked the code out read-only to a directory with the name of the server (amphisbaena.usc.edu).
12. I installed the Flex 4 SDK.
    1. I downloaded the SDK as a zip file and then extracted it in the c:\bin directory