Set up a stand-alone server

We created a stand-alone, demonstration environment with Installation Manager. Now we are ready to change the demonstration environment into a production ready, distributed stand-alone server environment. To begin, use the Database Transfer option to transfer the database from the default database, Apache Derby to a more robust database. After the data is transferred, we can change from the built-in file-based repository to a federated repository.

When a stand-alone topology is used as the foundation for a distributed environment, the web server, database, and user registry software is distributed to different physical servers. The benefits of a distributed environment are:

• Workload management. Database workload is distributed to another server.

• Improved security. We can place the web server outside the firewall to direct traffic to the portal server.

• Potential for growth. We can add more servers later as traffic increases.

Use a distributed, stand-alone server topology to our environment if we are a:

• Company or organization that does not need a cluster environment for failover or high availability.

• Company or organization that needs an environment to test your applications and designs before these applications and designs go to the live server.

• Company or organization with limited server resources that wants to set up a department server or small website.

Related concepts:

Configuration Wizard