Portal Express, Version 6.0
Operating systems: i5/OS, Linux, Windows
Verifying database connections
This section provides information on testing your database connection to ensure that it operates correctly.
After WebSphere Portal Express is configured to work with your preferred database, test the database connection to ensure that it operates correctly.
You should not run the test connection in the IBM® WebSphere® Application Server Administrative Console
Verify IBM WebSphere Portal Express in a browser
Verify that the WebSphere Portal Express application server is running by opening WebSphere Portal Express in a browser: http://hostname.example.com:10038/wps/portal, where hostname.example.com is the fully qualified host name of the machine where WebSphere Portal is running and 10038 is the default transport port that is created by WebSphere Application Server..
There may be an error if any of the following conditions appear.
- When trying to access WebSphere Portal Express, you may get a 503 error.
- If you had any locale problems with your database, you could see invalid characters, such as ????, after logging in. This may happen if the character set of the database is not UTF-8 compliant.
- If something went wrong with the transferred data, you may not be able to login. WebSphere Portal Express will indicate you entered an invalid user ID and password even though you know it is valid.
Parent topic:
Configuring SQL Server