You can quickly install Liberty by extracting an archive file on all
supported platforms except z/OS®.
About this task
On the z/OS operating system, Liberty can be installed only by using
Installation Manager. For more information, see Installing Liberty using Installation Manager.
Procedure
- Download the archive from one of the following sites.
- Extract the archive to your preferred directory. All of the application server files are stored in subdirectories of the wlp directory.
- Optional: Set the JAVA_HOME property for your environment.
Liberty requires a Java runtime
environment (JRE) or Java SDK in which to run. You can specify the Java SDK or JRE location by using the JAVA_HOME
property in the server.env file, as described in Customizing the Liberty environment. When you set the JAVA_HOME property in the
server.env file, Liberty
uses the same Java runtime location regardless of the user
profile that the Liberty server runs
under.
Note: The Liberty runtime environment
searches for the java command in this order: JAVA_HOME
property, JRE_HOME property, and system PATH property.
For more information about supported Java environments and where to get them, see Minimum supported Java levels.