Installing WebSphere Application Server--Custom Installation option
To install WebSphere Application Server using the GUI installer, do the following:
- Log onto your machine with superuser (root) privileges. Note that when installing WebSphere Application Server,
the user ID of this individual cannot contain angle brackets.
If your system does not grant you root authority even though you are logged on as
root, ensure /usr/ucb is in the path for the root login. Edit the installation script file
install.sh by adding the following line before the call to the whoami command:
export PATH = $PATH:/usr/ucb
- If IBM HTTP Server or another Web server on your system is running, stop the
Web server.
- If you plan to use a Web server or database at a level that exceeds
the current version required by WebSphere Application Server, you must disable the WebSphere
Prerequisite Checker before installing WebSphere Application Server.
To do this, perform the following steps:
- Copy the prereq.properties file from the /cdrom/cdrom0/sun directory to the /tmp directory on the
machine on which you will install WebSphere Application Server.
- Edit this file by finding the line
prereq_checker=1
and
changing it to prereq_checker=0
.
- If you have not disabled the Prerequisite Checker as detailed in Step 3,
run the installation script file by entering the following command:
# /cdrom/cdrom0/sun/install.sh
If you have disabled the Prerequisite Checker as detailed in Step 3,
run the installation script file by entering the following command:
# /cdrom/cdrom0/sun/install.sh /prereqfile /tmp/prereq.properties
- Click Next to pass the introductory page.
- In the Install Options dialog, select Custom Installation;
then click Next.
- On the Choose Application Server Components dialog, select those components you
want and deselect those components you do not want. You will likely want to include
the default options. Ensure that Configure Default Server and Application
is selected. If you plan on running WebSphere Application Server with a supported
Web server, then also select Web Server Plugins.
- Click Next. If necessary, shut down all Web servers you plan to
run with WebSphere Application Server and proceed.
- If you opted to install a plug-in, the Choose Web Server Plugins page displays.
Select IBM HTTP Server plug-in.
Only IBM HTTP Server 1.3.12 is provided with WebSphere Application Server. You
must separately purchase and install the other supported Web servers.
- On the Database Options dialog, do the following:
- For Database Type, select DB2.
- For Database Name, give the name of the database to use. The default is was.
- For DB Home, specify the path for the database program. The path is
/export/home/db2inst1.
- For DB URL, specify the URL for accessing the database. You will likely want
to take the default, which has the form
jdbc:db2:was
.
- For Database User ID, specify your user name. If you have already installed
DB2 UDB, ensure that you specify the Username specified when installing DB2 UDB.
- For Database Password and Confirm Password, enter your password. If you
have already installed DB2 UDB, ensure that you specify the Password specified
when installing DB2 UDB. Note that DB2 UDB requires a password of 8 or fewer
characters.
- Click Next.
- On the Security Options dialog, fill in the user ID, security password,
and confirming password to use for the application server. If you do not need
special key ring files, click Next to take the default key ring files and
to move to the Product Directory dialog.
If you need special key ring files, move to the key ring section, designate client
and server files and passwords, and then click Next until you are at the
Product Directory dialog.
- Specify the destination directory. If you do not have IBM HTTP Server already
installed on your system, then a fixed destination directory (/opt/IBMHTTPD) for
IBM HTTP Server will be shown. Click Next.
- Click Next again and then OK to begin the installation.
- The next page points you to the README. If you select to view the README and a Netscape
browser does not open on the README, look in the
<main_Application_Server_directory>/web/InfoCenter/was directory
for the readme.html file. For the most recent version of the README or release notes,
go to Library section of the product Web site at
http://www.ibm.com/software/webservers/appserv/.
Click Finish.
Finishing prerequisite configuration
If you installed IBM HTTP Server as part of the WebSphere
Application Server installation (that is, you did not install the prerequisite product
before installing Application Server), you may need to configure it.
See "Verifying installation of IBM HTTP Server 1.3.12" for details.
Further, to ensure that DB2 installed properly and that the WAS database has been created,
see "Configuring and verifying installation of DB2 UDB 6.1"
or "Configuring DB2 Universal Database (UDB) 7.1 for use with WebSphere Application Server"
if you have not done so already.