Portal Express, Version 6.0
Operating systems: i5/OS, Linux, Windows

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Verify and launch WebSphere Portal Express

 

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1. Launch WebSphere Portal Express
2. Start WebSphere Portal Express as bootup service on Unix/Linux operating system
3. Run the validation task
4. Determine the server ports

 

Launch WebSphere Portal Express

To verify that WebSphere Portal Express has been installed and is working properly...

1. Verify the following servers and components are started
   • Database
   • LDAP server
   • Web server
   • WebSphere Application Server
   • The WebSphere_Portal enterprise application

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

   http://hostname.example.com:port_number/wps/portal

   where

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

   • WebSphere Portal Express 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...

     portal_server_root/config/wpconfig.properties

   An example URL is...

   http://www.ibm.com:10038/wps/portal

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

3. WebSphere Portal Express 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 the WebSphere Portal Express page again.

 

Start WebSphere Portal Express as bootup service on Unix/Linux operating system

Edit the start_WebSphere_Portal.sh script that was generated from the startserver.sh WebSphere_Portal -script command as shown in the example below.

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/IBM/PE/PortalServer/shared/app/oiexport:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH   
export LIBPATH=/opt/IBM/PE/PortalServer/shared/app/oiexport:$LIBPATH  
export PATH=/opt/IBM/PE/PortalServer/shared/app/oiexport:$PATH        
export SHLIB_PATH=/opt/IBM/PE/PortalServer/shared/app/oiexport:$SHLIB_PATH    

 

Run the validation task

To verify the status of WebSphere Portal Express...

• Windows and Linux:

  cd portal_server_root\config
  ./WPSconfig.sh validate-wps-admin-login -DPortalAdminPwd=portalAdminPassword

• i5/OS:

  cd portal_server_root_user/UserData/config
  WPSconfig.sh -profileName profile_name validate-wps-admin-login -DPortalAdminPwd=portalAdminPassword

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

 

Determine the server ports

After installation, to determine the server ports, refer to the SystemOut.log file.

In the WPS/log/SystemOut.log search for the entry similar to:

    [3/14/06 18:55:16:031 CET] 0000000a TCPChannel A 
    TCPC0001I: TCP Channel TCP_1 is listening on host *  (IPv4) port 9074. 
    [3/14/06 18:55:16:047 CET] 0000000a WSChannelFram A   
    CHFW0019I: The Transport Channel Service has started chain WCInboundAdmin.  
    The 'WCInboundAdmin' transport channel points to the admin console port 

The port number is displayed on top of the channel name.

 

Parent topic:

Verifying

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