Stand-alone: Installing with the Installation Manager on Linux

You can use the IBM® Installation Manager to help you install IBM WebSphere® Portal Express® and IBM WebSphere Application Server in a stand-alone environment. The IBM Installation Manager gathers essential information, such as host name and node, and then performs the installation.

About this task

The installation program verifies the operating system and its prerequisites, available disk space, and any required software prerequisites before installation. You cannot install two instances of the server at the same time, even if you are installing to different directories. You must install each server completely before installing the next one. The bit architecture of the installation program uses one of the following options:
  • The bit architecture of the operating system
  • The bit architecture of the existing WebSphere Application Server
For example, if you are installing onto a 64-bit operating system, WebSphere Portal Express installs as a 64-bit version. You can force a 32-bit application installation onto a 64-bit operating system.
Complete the following steps to use the IBM Installation Manager for installation:

Procedure

  1. Type ping yourserver.yourcompany.com on a command line to verify that your fully qualified host name is properly configured.
  2. Type ping localhost on a command line to verify that your network is properly configured.
  3. If you are installing on a server with a firewall, antivirus, screen saver, and desktop search engine that is enabled, disable them before you install. If you do not disable them and the installation program detects them, a warning message displays during the installation.
  4. Optional: Complete the following steps to install as a non-root user:
    1. Log in to the operating system as the root user.
    2. Open a command prompt.
    3. Use the appropriate system commands to create the following items:
      • Non-root user, including password
      • Group
      • Directory, used when you install IBM Installation Manager and WebSphere Portal Express
    4. Set the user profile for the number of open files. Set the value to ulimit -n 10240.
    5. Add the non-root user to the new group.
    6. Run the following task to change the owner of the directory to the non-root user: 
      chown user:group /directory
    7. Run the following task to change permissions for the directory: 
      chmod 755 /directory
    8. Log in as the non-root user.
    9. Use the following command to install IBM Installation Manager: 
      ./userinst

      Set the IBM Installation Manager installation location to /directory/IBM/InstallationManager.

    10. Start IBM Installation Manager and complete the installation.
  5. Choose the appropriate installation task to install or upgrade the IBM Installation Manager:
    • Run the ./install task, located in the IIM directory, to install the IBM Installation Manager.
    • Run the ./setup.sh task from the Portal Setup disk if you want to start the launchpad to complete all necessary installation steps.
      Launchpad tip: On the Launchpad Install Portal panel, you have the following options:
      Install IBM WebSphere Portal from media
      Choose this option if you are installing directly from the DVD.
      Install IBM WebSphere Portal from network
      Choose this option if you downloaded the e-images.
      Install IBM Installation Manager only
      Choose this option if you want to install multiple IBM products or if you want to install WebSphere Portal Express directly from IBM Passport Advantage®.
      Tip: Add the LaunchPadLocale language_code to the setup task to change the display to your user locale or to another language. See the following information for the supported language codes:
      WebSphere Portal Express language codes:
      • ar     =   Arabic
      • ca     =   Catalan
      • cs     =   Czech
      • da     =   Danish
      • nl     =   Dutch
      • en     =   English
      • fi     =   Finnish
      • fr     =   French
      • de     =   German          
      • el     =   Greek
      • iw     =   Hebrew
      • hr     =   Croatian
      • hu     =   Hungarian
      • it     =   Italian
      • ja     =   Japanese
      • kk     =   Kazakh
      • ko     =   Korean
      • no     =   Norwegian
      • pl     =   Polish          
      • pt     =   Portuguese
      • pt_BR =   Brazilian Portuguese
      • ro     =   Romanian
      • ru     =   Russian
      • sk     =   Slovak
      • sl     =   Slovenian
      • es     =   Spanish
      • zh     =   Simplified Chinese
      • zh_TW =   Traditional Chinese
      • sv     =   Swedish
      • th     =   Thai
      • tr     =   Turkish
      • uk     =   Ukrainian
      Note: After completing all necessary steps from the launchpad, verify that your installation was successful.
    • If you have an existing IBM Installation Manager, open the IBM Installation Manager and navigate to File > Updates to search for updates to the latest supported version.
  6. After installing or upgrading the IBM Installation Manager, complete the following steps to add the repositories where the installation media exists:
    1. Open the IBM Installation Manager and navigate to File > Preferences > Repositories.
    2. Select Add Repositories.
    3. Select Browse and navigate to the Portal-install-eimage/Setup/eimage/repository.config file and then click OK.
    4. Ensure that all required repositories are checked. Then click Test Connections to ensure that the IBM Installation Manager can successfully access the directory where the service repositories are stored.
    5. Select Apply.
    6. Select OK.
  7. On the main IBM Installation Manager panel, select Install to begin the installation process.
    Attention: On the Install Packages: Select the features to install panel, keep the default selection checked to create a new Portal server profile.
    1. On the Install Packages: Select packages to install panel, select both the WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere Portal Express packages.
    2. Click Next.
    3. On the Install Packages: Select the fixes to install panel, select the following fixes based on how you are accessing the repository:
      When you install WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere Portal Express together from the live repository (Passport Advantage)
      • 8.0.0.3-WS-WAS-IFPM59935
      • 8.0.0.3-WS-WAS-IFPM60670
      • 8.0.0.3-WS-WASProd-IFPM60134
      • 8.0.0.3-WS-WAS-IFPM61934
      When you install WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere Portal Express together from the local repository (DVD or downloaded eImage from the web-site)
      • 8.0.0.3-WS-WAS-TFPM59935
      • 8.0.0.3-WS-WAS-TFPM60670
      • 8.0.0.3-WS-WASProd-TFPM60134
      • 8.0.0.3-WS-WAS-TFPM61934
    4. Accept the license agreement and then click Next.
    5. Select the directory where you want to store shared resources and then click Next.
    6. Complete the following steps on the Install Packages: Installation Directory panel:
      The installation directory that you specify must NOT contain any files or the following characters:
      • ~
      • !
      • @
      • #
      • $
      • %
      • ^
      • &
      • *
      • (
      • )
      • _
      • +
      • {
      • }
      • |
      • <
      • >
      • ?
      • `
      • =
      • [
      • ]
      • ;
      • '
      • ,
      • .
      • "
      1. Select the WebSphere Application Server Package Group Name and then select the installation directory path.
      2. Select the WebSphere Portal Express Package Group Name and then select the installation directory path.
      3. Click Next.
    7. Select the translations to install and then click Next.
    8. On the Install Packages: Select the features to install panel, expand the WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere Portal Express packages to modify the features you want to install and then click Next.
      32-bit installation on a 64-bit operating system: To force a 32-bit installation on your 64-bit operating system, expand the IBM WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment feature. Then expand IBM Software Development Kit. Under IBM Software Development Kit, select 32-bit SDK for Java.
      Note: As you select the items, read the Details section for information about the selections.
    9. On the Profile configuration details panel, enter your topology and administrative credential information.
    10. Click Collecting DB2 credentials.
    11. On the Collecting DB2 credentials panel, enter your DB2® values. Then click Test User ID to verify your credentials against the system policies.
    12. Click Next.
    13. Confirm the information on the Summary panel and then click Install.

Results

Complete the following steps after a successful installation:
  1. After a successful installation, the summary panel displays. Choose one of the following radio buttons to configure your WebSphere Portal Express environment and then click Finish:
    • Profile Management Tool to create a profile
    • Profile Management Tool to create an application server profile for a development environment
    • Use Portal FirstSteps to launch the WebSphere Portal Server URL, access WebSphere Portal Express and the WebSphere Integrated Solutions Console. You can also use FirstSteps to access the product Documentation and the Configuration Wizard.
    • None
    Tip: To access the First Steps panels later, you can either select First Steps from the Start menu or you can run the firststeps.bat task from the wp_profile_root/PortalServer/firststeps directory. Add the LaunchPadLocale language_code to the firststeps task to change the display to your user locale or to another language.
  2. If you want to change the default context root, complete the steps in Changing the portal URI.