Before you start administering the portal

 

Overview

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. Or, 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.

To make some configuration changes effective, you might need to restart the application server.

After the WebSphere Portal installation is complete, make sure you save certain WebSphere Portal configuration files in a safe place. The reason for this is that the configuration process during the installation writes security sensitive information into these files in order to properly perform the portal configuration. The files are not removed after the installation as they also contain valuable information about the installation configuration process. Therefore, once you do not need that information any more, remove it and move those files to a safe place, or set the file permissions so that only authorized users can read them. Execute the following two configuration scripts to remove this security sensitive information:

  1. This removes the work directory that was created by the configurator to configure the portal during the portal installation.

    ./WPSconfig.sh cleanup-work-dir

  2. This removes all passwords from the installation process from the wpconfig.properties file.

    ./WPSconfig.sh delete-passwords

Before you update portal configuration files, make sure you back them up in a safe location.

 

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