Host Your Own draw.io - Visio Style Diagram Maker - On Windows

#Drawio #VisioAlternative #Windows

Full steps can be found at https://i12bretro.github.io/tutorials/0950.html

What is Draw.io?

draw.io is a configurable diagramming/whiteboarding visualization application. - https://github.com/jgraph/drawio

Downloads and Pre-requisites

   01. Download OpenJDK  https://jdk.java.net/    02. Download Apache Tomcat  https://tomcat.apache.org/download-10.cgi    03. Download the latest draw.io .war file  https://github.com/jgraph/drawio/releases/latest    04. Extract the OpenJDK .zip archive    05. Copy the extracted OpenJDK files to C:\Program Files\OpenJDK    06. Click the Start button and search Control Panel    07. Navigate to System ≫ Advanced System Settings    08. Click the Environment Variables button    09. Under System Variables, click New    10. In the Variable Name field enter JAVA_HOME    11. In the Variable Value field enter the full path to C:\Program Files\OpenJDK    12. Click OK to close all the open dialog windows

Installing Tomcat

   01. Double click the Apache Tomcat installer executable    02. Click Next and then I Agree    03. On the Choose Components screen, uncheck everything except Core, Service Startup and Native ≫ Click Next    04. Set the port to 8000 and Service Name ≫ Click Next    05. At the Java Virtual Machine screen, input C:\Program Files\OpenJDK ≫ Click Next    06. Verify the install location ≫ Click Install    07. After the installation completes click Finish    08. Open a web browser and navigate to http://DNSorIP:8000    09. An Apache Tomcat splash screen should display with the version of Tomcat that is currently running

Installing draw.io

   01. Copy the draw.war file downloaded earlier to the Apache Tomcat/webapps directory    02. Within a few moments Apache Tomcat should see the .war file and extract it to a /draw sub-directory       a. If this doesn't occur automatically, try right clicking the Start button ≫ Run ≫ services.msc and restarting the Apache Tomcat service    04. Once the .war file has extracted itself to a directory, open a web browser and navigate to http://DNSorIP:8000/draw

Optional Steps

   01. To remove the need to navigate to /draw, navigate to the Apache Tomcat/webapps directory in Explorer    02. Delete the ROOT directory if it exists    03. Rename the draw directory ROOT    04. Open a web browser and navigate to http://DNS-or-IP:8000/ to reach Draw.io  

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