WebSphere Portal
Directory structure

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This topic shows the naming conventions used to denote the location of files on the portal server and the types of resources you can find in those directories.

 

WebSphere Portal directory structure

Throughout this documentation, the install location for the portal server component of WebSphere Portal is noted as wp_root. The root directory for WebSphere Portal product files is:

/QIBM/ProdData/PortalServer5

Note: This is represented as <wp_root> in the Information Center.

The WebSphere Portal root directory has the following structure:

PortalServer5
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 +-- bin               WebSphere Portal tools
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 +-- config            Portal configuration files
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 +-- dev               Resources for portlet developers, including Struts
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 +-- doc               WebSphere Portal Information Center and Javadoc
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 +-- install
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 +-- installableApps   WAR files prior to deployment
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 +-- license
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 +-- log               WebSphere Portal log files
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 +-- migration         Scripts used to assist in migrating from previous releases of WebSphere Portal
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 +-- odc               Productivity components
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 +-- pb                Propery broker files for cooperative portlets
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 +-- portletscripts    XML files for installing portlets individually
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 +-- shared
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 |   +-- app           WebSphere Portal runtime JARs, TLDs, and other resources.  This corresponds to
 |       |                the application server's WPSLib shared library for WebSphere Portal
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 |       +-- config    Portal configuration files
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 |       |   +-- services    Portal services configuration files (*.properties)
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 |       +-- nls       WebSphere Portal NLS files
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 |       +-- WEB-INF   Resources for the WebSphere Portal
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 |       +-- tld       Portal JSP taglibs
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 +-- uninstall         Resources for uninstalling WebSphere Portal and components
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 +-- version           Version information for various components
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 +-- was               WebSphere Application Server
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 +-- wmm               Member Manager configuration, including attributes of portal users
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 +-- wpcp              Document Manager runtime and resources
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 +-- wps.properties    WebSphere Portal property files
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 +-- IBMTrans          Transcoding component

 

WebSphere Application Server directory structure

Throughout this documentation, the install location for WebSphere Application Server is noted as was_root. In addition to the root directory for product files, there is also a root directory for each WebSphere Application Server instance that has been configured for use with WebSphere Portal. This directory exists in the following location:

/QIBM/UserData/WebAS5/Base/<instance>/PortalServer5

where instance is the name of the WebSphere Application Server instance. Note that this directory does not exist until the addwpsinst.sh task has been run as part of the configuration process. Refer to Adding WebSphere Portal to a WebSphere Application Server instance for more information.

 

Directories for languages

The following shows the languages supported by WebSphere Portal and the directories used for storing locale-specific resources.

Language (locale)	Directory		Language (locale)	Directory
Arabic	/ar		Czech	/cs
Danish	/da		Dutch	/nl
English	/en		Finnish	/fi
French	/fr		German	/de
Greek	/el		Hebrew	/iw
Hungarian	/hu		Italian	/it
Japanese	/ja		Korean	/ko
Norwegian	/no		Polish	/pl
Portuguese	/pt		Brazilian Portuguese	/pt_BR
Russian	/ru		Spanish	/es
Simplified Chinese	/zh		Traditional Chinese	/zh_TW
Swedish	/sv		Turkish	/tr