Prerequisites
Before installing the Commerce Enabled Portal on your WebSphere Commerce machine, ensure you have completed the following:
- Met the hardware and software requirements outlined in Pre-installation requirements.
- If you have an existing WebSphere Commerce instance, back up your WebSphere Commerce database before installing the Commerce Enabled Portal. To back up your database, refer to your official database documentation.
- Ensure to stop all WebSphere Commerce related servers including Configuration Manager Server if it is started.
Installation Steps
To install the Commerce Enabled Portal on your WebSphere Commerce machine, do the following:
Ensure that you are logged onto your system as root.
- From a terminal session, issue the following commands:
DISPLAY=host_name:0.0 export DISPLAY
where host_name is the fully qualified host name of the machine from which you want to run the installation wizard.
Note: If you are running the installation wizard in an X client, the X client may need to be authorized to access the X server using the xhost command. To authorize an X client, issue the following command from the system console as root:
xhost +host_name
, where host_name is the fully qualified host name of the machine from which you want to run the installation wizard.- From a terminal session, issue the following commands:
- Insert WebSphere Commerce CD 1 into the CD-ROM drive of the node.
- Mount the CD-ROM drive.
Important: Do not change the directory to the mount point. Changing directories to the mount point will lock the CD drive and prevent you from being able to swap CDs when the WebSphere Commerce installation wizard asks you to do so.
Note: The WebSphere Commerce CDs use Universal Disk Format (UDF). You may need to use a specific mount command depending on your operating system.
For example, mount -o ro -v udfs /dev/cd0 /cdrom
Auto-mount should correctly mount the WebSphere Commerce CD.
All other CDs provided with WebSphere Commerce use ISO formatted CDs. Ensure that you mount the CDs correctly.
Issue the following command to start the WebSphere Commerce launchpad: mount_point/setup.sh Portal where mount_point is the CD-ROM mount point, for example, /cdrom.
Run the following command to display the WebSphere Commerce installation launchpad:
setup.bat Portal
- Following the instructions in WebSphere Commerce Installation Guide, install WebSphere Commerce choosing the Custom installation option. Install the Commerce Enabled Portal components on the WebSphere Commerce machine.
Note: If WebSphere Commerce Version 6.0 is already installed, choose the Custom installation option and install only the Commerce Enabled Portal components on the WebSphere Commerce machine.
- If you have not already created a WebSphere Commerce instance, create the instance following the instructions in WebSphere Commerce Installation Guide.