IBM WebSphere Application Server and Web Plugin for Apache on Linux - part 2

Ok, now we can install WAS.

Steps are:
1.Download it.
Files are


was.repo.8550.basetrial_part1.zip
was.repo.8550.basetrial_part2.zip
was.repo.8550.basetrial_part3.zip

Move them to your server.

2.go to location of was.repo* files
server1:/opt/2 # ls
was.repo.8550.basetrial_part1.zip  was.repo.8550.basetrial_part3.zip
was.repo.8550.basetrial_part2.zip

3.Unzip them
server1:/opt/2# ls
Copyright.txt                       readme
Remote_Installation_Tool_for_IBM_i  repository.config
disk1                               was.repo.8550.basetrial_part1.zip
disk2                               was.repo.8550.basetrial_part2.zip
disk3                               was.repo.8550.basetrial_part3.zip
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4. Start IM

Start IM, add repository so that IM can see WAS installation.

server1:/opt/IBM/InstallationManager#./launcher

  

Follow steps.

5. Install WAS

After you have insert repository, go to first page of IM, click install. There you can choose which IBM software to install. As you can see in picture below I already have WAS, IBM HTTP and WEB Plug -in for WAS installed.

 

Select WAS and follow steps.

WAS is installed in /opt/IBM/WebSphere/AppServer.

6. Start WAS

After installation is finished, start WAS.

server1:~ # /etc/init.d/server1Node01_was.init start

Open web browser on you local machine.

https://IP_SERVER1:9043/ibm/console

 

Log in.

 

This is WAS administrative console. IBM call it Integrated Solutions Console(ISC).

 

In case that you can not get log in screen, check few things.
1.Iptables on server. Port 9043 is needed for Integrated Solutions Console. Once you connect to ISC, you can see what other port you need.
2. Check if your service is running

sles11:~ # ps aux |grep java
root     11526  0.1 17.4 1062664 685088 ?      Sl   May12  38:01 /opt/IBM/WebSphere/AppServer/java/bin/java -Declipse.security -Dwas.statu .....

3. Check logs of WAS.
Location is /opt/IBM/WebSphere/AppServer/profiles/AppSrv01/logs/server1.
Look in SystetErr.log and SystemOut.log

In case that you can not find logs, use this

server1:/opt/IBM/WebSphere/AppServer # find . -name *.log