Websphere Portal 6.1 installation

There is not too much tips you need know for installing WPS 6.1

 

On linux environment, there are several thing need to be done before you install.

 

1 You need root permission to install.

2  You need increase file access limit.

     sudo echo "@users soft nofile 10240" >> /etc/security/limits.conf

  sudo echo "@users hard nofils 65536" >> /etc/security/limits.conf

3 You need set up your full domain name for portal host

     sudo echo "192.168.100.101 portal.topdigi.com" >> /etc/hosts

4 After installation is done, you would like give no-root user to have access to running websphere portal.

   Create a group names wpsadmins, assign ownships of opt/IBM, /tmp, /var/tmp to this group, add any user you want tohave access to WPS  to this goup.

   groupadd -g wpsadmins

   chgrp -R wpsadmins /opt/IBM

   chmod -R g+wr /opt/IBM

   chgrp -R wpsadmins /tmp

   chmod -R g+wr /tmp

   chgrp -R wpsadmins /var/tmp

   chmod -R g+wr /var/tmp