Verify database connections
After WebSphere Portal is configured to work with the preferred database, test the database connection to ensure that it operates correctly.
You are here
- Planning for databases
- Installing databases
- Creating databases and users
- Transferring all domains or Transferring individual domains
- Verifying database connections (Current task)
You should not run the test connection in the IBM WebSphere Application Server Administrative Console
Verify IBM WebSphere Portal in a browser
Verify that the WebSphere Portal application server is running by opening the portal in a browser:
http://<host>:<port>/wps/portal...where host is the fully qualified host name of the machine where WebSphere Portal is running and port is the transport port that is created by WebSphere Application Server.
There may be an error if any of the following conditions appear.
- When trying to access the portal you may get a 503 error.
- If you had any locale problems with the database, you could see invalid characters, such as ????, after logging in. This may happen if the character set of the database is not UTF-8 compliant.
- If something went wrong with the data that was transfered, you may not be able to login. Portal will indicate you entered an invalid user ID and password even though you know it is valid.
Related information
Parent topic:
Configure databases