Deployment, installation, and configuration
Before using the multilingual solution, deploy, install and configure the multilingual solution extensions, and the also update, and configure the system.
- Multilingual deployment
Deployment of multilingual sites can be centralized, running out of single environment, or decentralized where locales are served from different environments.
- Install the multilingual extensions
The multilingual solution consists of a set of extensions to Web Content Manager used to manage the authoring, workflow, and configuration of your multilingual system.
- Configure a multilingual system
After installing the multilingual extensions, configure the system to support multilingual authoring and rendering.
- Optimizing the performance of the extensions
Optimize the system for best performance of the multilingual solution.
- Capacity planning for multilingual sites
When using the multilingual extensions to automate the creation and publishing of translations, it is important to consider the additional load placed on the authoring server in comparison with single language websites.
- Change the multilingual solution context root
The default context root for the multilingual solution application is /wps. With v8.5 CF3, we can change this to match the WebSphere Portal context root to better suit the requirements of the organization.
- Uninstall the multilingual solution extensions
The following steps are required to uninstall the multilingual solution extensions. These must be run on every server on non-clustered systems, or on the primary cluster node.