Verify and launch 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.
Make sure that the following components have been started:
- The WAS subsystem
- The WebSphere Portal application server
- LDAP server (if applicable)
- External Web server (if applicable)
After the servers are all running, open a Web browser and enter the WebSphere Portal page URL:
http://<hostname>:<port_number>/wps/portal...where hostname is the fully qualified host name of the machine where WebSphere Portal is running and port_number is the transport port that was created by WAS.
This value is also stored in the WpsHostPort property in...
/qibm/userdata/webas5/base/<instance>/portalserver5/config/wpconfig.propertiesfile.For example
http://www.ibm.com:9081/wps/portalIf 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 the customized URL.
WebSphere Portal should load in the browser.
If you get an Internal Server Error, WAS might not have completely started yet. Wait a couple of minutes to ensure that WAS has completely started and try to access WebSphere Portal page again. If you continue to have problems starting the server, refer to the Troubleshoot: WAS startup topic in the iSeries Information Center.
Run the validation task
To run the validation task, execute...STRQSH
cd /qibm/userdata/webas5/base/<instance>/portalserver5/config
WPSconfig.sh validate-wps-admin-login-DPortalAdminPwd=portalAdminPassword Any errors that are generated by the configuration task are stored in the messages log.
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