Installing WebSphere Application Server -- Custom Installation option
To install WebSphere Application Server, do the following:
- Ensure that you will be installing WebSphere Application Server under a local
Windows user ID that is in the Administrative group and has the advanced user
rights "Act as part of the operating system" and "Log on as a service."
- If IBM HTTP Server or another Web server on your system is running, stop the
Web server.
If you have a level of IBM HTTP Server prior to 1.3.19 on your system, you must
uninstall it for the WebSphere Application Server installation program to install
IBM HTTP Server 1.3.19.
- If you obtained Version 4.0 from the product Web site, run or unpack the downloaded executable.
- 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
do one of the following:
- Download the most current prereq.properties file from the Web site
http://www.ibm.com/software/webservers/appserv/tools.html
to a directory such as c:\tmp on the machine onto which you will install
WebSphere Application Server.
- Disable the WebSphere Prerequisite Checker before installing WebSphere
Application Server.
- Copy the prereq.properties file from the \nt directory to the c:\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 downloaded a new prereq.properties file or disabled
the Prerequisite Checker (Step 3), run
setup.exe or, if you have the product CD, run \nt\setup.exe .
If you have downloaded a new prereq.properties file or disabled the
Prerequisite Checker, enter the following command:
setup.exe -prereqfile c:\tmp\prereq.properties
You will need 135 MB free in your temp directory (usually on the C drive),
even if you are installing on another drive, because the installation shield
package unpacks to the temp directory. This will kick off an installation
shield package.
- Select a language and click OK.
- Click Next to pass the introductory page.
- If WebSphere Application Server is already installed on your system, a dialog
giving you the option to backup and uninstall WebSphere Application Server displays.
You now have three options:
- To backup your files and uninstall WebSphere Application Server, click
Backup and Uninstall and then Next to continue with the installation.
- To install to a different directory, simply click Next and continue
with the installation.
- To migrate your files from a previous release, click Perform Migration.
Complete the migration, then run the WebSphere installation program
again.
If WebSphere Application Server is not already installed on your system,
proceed to step 9.
- In the Installation Options dialog, select Custom Installation;
then click Next.
- In 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.
Clicking Other JDK displays the Select Java Development Kit dialog.
If you have a non-IBM Java development kit installed, we recommend that you specify that
you want the Java Development Kit (IBM Developer Kit 1.3.0.). Also specify
the destination directory for the IBM Developer Kit. Further, to use the
IBM Developer Kit, you must remove your other JDKs from the jre\lib\ext directory.
If you use a JDK other than IBM Developer Kit to run WebSphere Application
Server, it must be at the XML4j/Xerces 3.1.1 level. Finally, click Next.
Otherwise, click Back to exit the dialog.
- Click Next. If necessary, shut down all Web servers you plan to
run with WebSphere Application Server and proceed.
- On the Choose Webserver Plugins page, select IBM HTTP Server V1.3.19.
Only IBM HTTP Server 1.3.19 is provided with WebSphere Application Server. You
must separately purchase and install the other supported Web servers.
- On the Security Options dialog, fill in the user ID and password to use
for the application server. Do not use the characters < or > for the user
ID or password. After you fill in the fields, click Next.
- Specify the destination directories and click Next.
- On the Database Options dialog, do the following:
- For Database Type, select Oracle. If the Application Server will be
using a database that is installed on a machine other than the one onto which you
are installing WebSphere Application Server, select the Remote
Database check box.
- For Database Name, give the name of the database to use. The default is orcl.
- For Database User ID, specify your user name. Note that if you use an
invalid user ID to install WebSphere, it will not successfully register the
WebSphere Administrative Server to the NT services database. If you have
already installed Oracle 8i, ensure that you specify the Username specified when
configuring Oracle 8i for use with WebSphere Application Server (for example,
EJSADMIN ).
- For Password and Confirm Password, enter your password. If you
have already installed Oracle 8i, ensure that you specify the Password specified
when installing Oracle 8i.
- For Path, specify the path for the database program.
- For URL, specify the URL for accessing the database. You will likely want
to take the default.
- For Server, specify the server containing the database program.
You will likely want to take the default.
- For Port, specify the port for the database. You will likely want
to take the default.
- Click Next.
- Click Next on the next two dialogs and begin the installation.
- The next page points you to the README. 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 and, to complete the installation, restart your computer.
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