The setup tool is only intended to provide the initial configuration for the Directory Proxy Server. It refuses to run if it detects that the setup tool has already been run, or if an attempt has been made to start the Directory Proxy Server prior to running the setup tool. This protects an existing Directory Proxy Server installation from being inadvertently updated in a manner that could harm an existing configuration or data set.

If the Directory Proxy Server has been previously used and if you want to perform a fresh installation, it is recommended that you first remove the existing installation, create a new one and run setup in that new installation. However, if you are confident that there is nothing of value in the existing installation (for example, if a previous attempt to run setup failed to complete successfully for some reason but it will refuse to run again), the following steps can be used to allow the setup program to run:
  • Remove the config/config.ldif file and replace it with the config/update/config.ldif.{revision} file containing the initial configuration.
  • If there are any files or subdirectories below the db directory, then remove them.
  • If a config/java.properties file exists, then remove it.
  • If a lib/setup-java-home script (or file on Microsoft Windows) exists, then remove it.