Portal Express, Version 6.0
Operating systems: i5/OS, Linux, Windows
Before you start administering the portal
Portal can be set up in a number of different ways, depending on the individual company or other business context. For example, you can partition the portal into several virtual portals that present different contents in different layouts to separate user groups. You can customize in the area of access control to the various portal resources, including allowing virtually any user to do anything or allowing users only viewing rights.
In order to make some configuration changes effective, you might need to restart the IBM WebSphere Application Server.
Because the configuration process during the installation writes security sensitive information into portal configuratio files, after the WebSphere Portal Express installation is complete, save portal configuration files in a safe place. The files are not removed after the installation as they also contain valuable information about the installation configuration process. Once you do not need that information any more, you should remove it and move those files to a safe place, or set the file permissions so that only authorized users can read them.
Before you update portal configuration files, make sure you back them up in a safe location.
This section has the following topics:
- Launch the portal from the First Steps Launcher
The First Steps Launcher provides a place from which to launch the portal and to view the documentation. The First Steps Launcher is available on Microsoft Windows and Linux. - Launch the portal from a Web browser
To see the portal, type the appropriate URL in a Web browser. - Log in to the portal
Type a user ID and password to log in to the portal. - Sign up to the portal
This section details how to sign up a user to the portal. A user must sign up to receive a user ID, and a user ID is required to log in to the portal. Only users that have been signed up will be able to log in. - Start and stop WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere Portal Express
This section describes how to start and stop the administrative server for WebSphere Application Server and the WebSphere Portal Express application server. 
Configure mail service
You can configure the e-mail notification for new community members for composite application communities.