title: Pentaho Community Edition Directory Struture, Plugins Integration and MySQL Connection
body: <p>I am working on Pentaho  Community Edition in the Windows Environment and downloaded the latest Pentaho BI Server File from Sourceforge.net.(file name biserver-ce-4.5.0-stable.zip) and extacted it to C:\Program Files\Pentaho 
   so that my directory structure becomes </p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>C:\ </p>
  
  <pre><code>  | 
     -----Program Files  
  
           |----------administration-console
  
           |----------biserver-ce
  </code></pre>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>Now what i am doing for running the PUC and PAC is firt start the tomcat from the bat file located at</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>C:\Program Files\Pentaho\biserver-ce\tomcat\bin\startup.bat</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>After tomcat has started i start the BI server from the file</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>C:\Program Files\Pentaho\biserver-ce\start-pentaho.bat</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>and finally the Administrative Console from</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>C:\Program Files\Pentaho\administration-console\start-pac.bat</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>The first Question is that What i am doing is correct or not. </p>
  
  <p>Secondly i have seen in tutorials that the admin panel Left Menu contains options as Home, Administration, Status, Configuration, Utilities etc but on my side i have just two options in the Admin Console, Home and Administration. How can i add/include those other options.</p>
  
  <p>Third Question is i have downloaded <code>Pentaho Data Integration-CE-4.3.0</code> and <code>Pentaho Report Design -CE-3.9.0-GA</code> file but how do i place them in the Current Pentaho Directory structure to access them.</p>
  
  <p>Fourth Question is how can i connect the Pentaho BI server to databases that i have in my local system accessible through MySQL.</p>