Create a staging server

You might want to create a staging server to test your WebSphere Commerce installation before moving to production.

Use the following instructions along with the WebSphere Commerce Installation Guide to create a staging server.

The staging server should be run on a separate system or machine partition from your production server.

To create a staging server:

1. Install WebSphere Commerce and its supporting software using the custom installation option of the WebSphere Commerce installation wizard.

2. Prepare the staging server to connect to the production database:

   1. Install a database client suitable for communication with your production database.

   2. Catalog the remote production database so that is accessible from your staging server.

3. Create a new WebSphere Commerce instance:

   1. Start the WebSphere Commerce Instance Creation wizard.

   2. Complete the pages of the wizard.

   3. On the Staging page of the wizard, ensure that you select Use staging server. If you do not select this check box, the resulting WebSphere Commerce instance will be a production WebSphere Commerce instance.

   4. Ensure that caching is not enabled in the Cache page.

   When the instance creation process complete, you will have a staging server instance.

4. Configure the staging database and the production database for use with the staging utilities.

5. If you have any custom tables that you want to enable for staging, create triggers for the custom tables

 

Related Concepts

Staging server

 

Related tasks

Configure databases for use with the staging utilities
Create triggers for custom tables

 

Related Reference

Create the staging server before the production server
Create the staging server after the production server