You can uninstall Web server plug-ins for WebSphere Application Server without uninstalling the supported Web server or the Application Server.
Before you begin
This topic describes uninstalling the Web server plug-ins for WebSphere Application Server.
If you used the IBM Key Management wizard to create SSL key files in the Web server Plug-ins home directory, back up the files to a directory outside of the Web server Plugins directory. After the uninstall procedure is complete, you can delete the SSL key files if they are no longer required.
Why and when to perform this task
After uninstalling the Web server plug-ins for WebSphere Application Server, you can reinstall them using any of the installation procedures described in Installing Web server plug-ins
Steps for this task
This procedure occasionally refers to the installation root directory as the plug-ins_install_root directory.
The Uninstall wizard displays a welcome panel.
The next few steps in this procedure describe using the wizard interactively. You can also issue the uninstall command with a silent parameter to use the wizard without the graphical user interface.
uninstall -silent
The Uninstaller wizard displays a confirmation panel for you to confirm what is to be uninstalled. Each feature that displays in the panel is a separate Web server installation. Each Web server installation is configured to use one of the binary plug-in modules that is being deleted.
The Uninstaller wizard displays a summary panel that provides status.
The Plug-ins installation wizard does not uninstall GSKit 7 because there is no registry describing products that are enrolled to use the GSKit. Without this critical information, uninstalling the GSKit product might affect other products that use GSKit.
You can uninstall GSKit once it is no longer in use on your systems.
On
Solaris systems, you must also uninstall GSKit 4 in addition to GSKit 7.
The Plug-ins uninstaller program unregisters the GSKit. The registry key is HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > SOFTWARE > IBM > GSK7 > REGAPPS > WASPlugins60_unique_key.
If the registry key WASPlugins60_unique_key is the last remaining key in the GSKit registry entry, the wizard also uninstalls the GSK7 product. If another product, such as IBM HTTP Server, is registered to use GSKit, the wizard does not uninstall the GSKit. The wizard always unregisters the registry key for the Web server plug-ins for WebSphere Application Server, which is WASPlugins60_unique_key.
The GSKit uninstall log is the plug-ins_install_root/log/uninstall/uninstallGSKit.log file.
The uninstaller program for the Web server plug-ins for WebSphere Application Server does not delete Web server definitions. However, you can delete a Web server definition using the following wsadmin commands:
$AdminTask deleteServer { -serverName webserver1 -nodeName webserver1_node } $AdminTask removeUnmanagedNode { -nodeName webserver1_node } $AdminConfig save
Result
After you exit from the plug-ins_install_root/_uninstPlugin directory, the directory is removed. The only remaining directory is the plug-ins_install_root/logs directory. The logs directory contains the install process log, the uninstall process log, and the Web server creation logs.
What to do next
To reinstall the Web server plug-ins for WebSphere Application Server, launch the installation procedure again.
To reinstall the Web server plug-ins for WebSphere Application Server into the original directory, delete the existing installation root directory for the plug-ins before reinstalling.
See Installing Web server plug-ins for information about installation scenarios for reinstalling Web server plug-ins.
See Manually uninstalling Web server plug-ins for WebSphere Application Server for information about manually uninstalling Web server plug-ins.