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I had a requirement for WebSphere Portal 6.1.5 on WebSphere Process Server 7 (a common scenario) and so I tried this on 64-bit Ubuntu 9.10.
It just worked. The following should help for a quick non-supervisor development environment with no need to perform platform tweaking.
Preparation
Increase the maximum number of files that can be open to 10240 or bigger (or else WebSphere Portal installation will fail):
echo “bjfletcher hard nofile 10240″ >> /etc/security/limits.confecho “limit -n 10240″ >> ~/.profile
Remove AppArmor (or else there may be some security issues, unnecessary for a development environment):
/etc/init.d/apparmor stop
update-rc.d -f apparmor remove
WebSphere Process Server 7
To install:
IM/userinst
During the installation, ask to be installed non-root/supervisor. Ask for Samples and the WPS profile to be created if desired. The Installation Vertification should succeed.
WebSphere Portal 6.1.5
To install, on the “IL-Setup” media:
dist/linwpinstall
and, during the installation, ask to:
- install on top of an existing WebSphere Application Server (the one installed by WebSphere Process Server)
- change default location from /opt/IBM/WebSphere to /home/bjfletcher/IBM/WebSphere (as non-supervisor installation)
- change host to bjfletcher-vmware.ibm.com (else comes the error: “EJPIC0067E: WebSphere Portal and Lotus Content Management requires a fully-qualified host name that is recognized by the DNS Server. Short names, loopback addresses, IP addresses and illegal characters such as blanks are not allowed. Enter the host name again”)
- separately, append bjfletcher-vmware.ibm.com to the 127.0.1.1 line in /etc/hosts (for a fully qualified host that is also DNS-able)
The installation asked to supply paths to the 5 different installation folders. Installation uses names like “IL-3″, here’s the mapping to download codes:
- IL-Setup > CZ8G7ML
- IL-3 > CZ8I4ML
- IL-4 > CZ8I5ML
- IL-5 > CZ8I6ML
- IL-5A > CZ8I7ML
Understand that the 5th final step takes a long time.
It all worked. The usual preparation steps (under “Preparation”) apply. In a previous attempt, the 5th final step of the installation failed – the media was on a path containing spaces (in my experience, this is a common reason with IBM middleware software).
Ben
