Verify WebSphere Portal

 

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Launch WebSphere Portal

The best way to verify that WebSphere Portal has been installed and is working properly is to launch WebSphere Portal:

  1. To launch WebSphere Portal have all required servers running. Make sure that the following servers and components, if applicable, are started:

  2. After the servers are all running, open a Web browser and enter the WebSphere Portal page URL:

    http://hostname.setgetweb.com:port_number/wps/portal
    where

    • hostname.setgetweb.com is the fully qualified host name of the machine.

    • WebSphere Portal is running and port_number is the transport port that was created by WebSphere Application Server.

      This value is also stored in the WpsHostPort property in the wpconfig.properties file.

    For example...

    http://www.ibm.com:9081/wps/portal

    If you have customized the WebSphere Portal page URL -- for example, by modifying the base URI portion of the default URL (wps) or the WebSphere Portal page (portal) -- be sure that you enter your customized URL.

  3. WebSphere Portal should load in the browser.

    If you get an Internal Server Error, WebSphere Application Server might not have completely started yet. Wait a couple of minutes to ensure that WebSphere Application Server has completely started and try to access WebSphere Portal page again.

 

Run the validation task

There is also a configuration task that you can use to verify the operation of WebSphere Portal. This task can be a useful aid when attempting to determine the status of WebSphere Portal.

To run the task, do the following steps:

  1. Go to...

    cd wp_root/config

  2. Enter one of the following commands:

    ./WPSconfig.sh validate-wps-admin-login -DPortalAdminPwd=portalAdminPassword

  3. Any errors that are generated by the configuration task are stored in the messages log.

 

See also

 

WebSphere is a trademark of the IBM Corporation in the United States, other countries, or both.

 

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