Installing Liberty by using downloaded archives

You can quickly install Liberty by extracting an archive file on all supported platforms except z/OS®.

Before you begin

Your system must meet the operating system and Java™ requirements for using Liberty. See WebSphere Application Server detailed system requirements.

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

  1. Download the archive from one of the following sites.
  2. Extract the archive to your preferred directory. All of the application server files are stored in subdirectories of the wlp directory.
  3. 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.


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