Defining servers for publishing portlets

You may wish to publish your portlet projects to a remote server for purposes of testing (i.e. server attach) or staging. To deploy a portlet project to a remote WebSphere® Portal server, you must create a server configuration for the target server. To create a server connection, select one of these options:
  1. Open the New Server wizard by doing one of the following:
    • From the Servers view, right-click and select New, or
    • From the Project Explorer view, right-click the portlet project and select Deploy Portlet. On the first page of the Deploy Portlet wizard, click the New button.
  2. Enter the Host name of the target WebSphere Portal server.
  3. Select a WebSphere Portal for Import, Export & Deploy server from the server type list.
  4. Click Next.
  5. On the WebSphere Portal Settings page, define the following options:
    1. Define the Server HTTP port, which defaults to 9081. This is the port number for WebSphere Portal on the remote machine.
    2. Define the Base URI, which defaults to /wps.
    3. Define the Default page, which defaults to /portal .
    4. Define the Personalized homepage, which defaults to /myportal.
    5. Define the Install location, which is the WebSphere Portal installation root, such as C:\Program Files\WebSphere\PortalServer. The Install location is not needed if you are only using the server for deploying portlets.
    6. Provide an administrator ID and password for a WebSphere Portal administrator.
  6. Press Next.
  7. Options on the Publishing Settings page are not needed for portlet projects.
  8. Click Finish.

You can modify any of these settings by double-clicking on the server in the Servers view. This opens the server configuration editor.

Related tasks
Publishing portlets
Deploying portlet projects
Exporting and installing portlet projects
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