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title: Fuseki Quickstart

This page describes how to achieve certain common tasks in the most direct way possible.

Running with Apache Tomcat and loading a file.

1. Unpack the distribution.
2. Copy the WAR file into the Apache tomcat webapp directory, under the name ‘fuseki’
3. In a browser, go to [http://localhost:8080/fuseki/](http://localhost:8080/fuseki) (details such as port number depend on the Tomcat setup).
4. Click on “Add one”, choose “in-memory”, choose a name for the URL for the dataset.
5. Go to “add data” and load the file (single graph).

Publish an RDF file as a SPARQL endpoint.

1. Unpack the distribution.
2. Run fuseki-server --file FILE /name

Explore a TDB database

1. Unpack the distribution.
2. Run fuseki-server --loc=DATABASE /name
3. In a browser, go to http://localhost:3030//query.html

More details on running Fuseki can be found nearby, including running as an operating system service and in a web app or servlet container such as Apache Tomcat or Jetty.