Setting up a stand-alone production server on Windows

Set up a stand-alone production environment when you do not need a robust clustered environment. A stand-alone server deployment is also useful to determine and validate the needs of your deployment. You can examine and test the functions and features to decide how to accomplish business goals.

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The following illustrations depict the stand-alone server configuration that results from following the instructions in this scenario.
Illustration of a stand-alone configuration with a remote database, LDAP server, and HTTP server.

After completing the installation, remember to tune the servers in your portal environment in order to achieve better performance. The Base Portal Tuning scenarios in the IBM® WebSphere® Portal and IBM Web Content Manager Performance Tuning Guide provides information about tuning the IBM WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere Portal services, databases, directory servers and more.

  1. Preparing your Windows operating system in a stand-alone environment
    View information on setting up your operating system for IBM WebSphere Portal. Other components might require more steps; see the product documentation for the specific components you want to install for information.
  2. Installing WebSphere Portal on Windows
    IBM WebSphere Portal is installed as a single component, complete with an integrated database for storing information. This installation gets WebSphere Portal up and running quickly for a proof of concept phase where you can immediately begin building and working with it. You can also expand your environment to include high availability failover, a more robust database, and LDAP-based authentication.
  3. Stand-alone: Performing post-installation tasks on Windows
    Depending on your business needs, there are additional tasks that you can run post-installation to configure your stand-alone environment.
  4. Windows stand-alone: Configuring your portal to use a database
    Before transferring default data to the production database server, you need to prepare the database server. Database preparation includes creating user IDs and databases. For this installation path, stand-alone production server, remote databases servers are used.
  5. Windows stand-alone: Preparing a remote Web server
    Install and configure the web server plug-in, provided by IBM WebSphere Application Server to set up your web server to communicate with IBM WebSphere Portal.
  6. Windows stand-alone: Configuring Portal to use a user registry
    Configure user registry security on IBM WebSphere Portal to protect your server from unauthorized users. You can configure a stand-alone LDAP user registry or you can add both LDAP user registries and database user registries or database user registries to the default federated repository. After you configure your user registry, you can add realms for Virtual Portals or a lookaside database to store attributes that cannot be stored in the LDAP user registry.
  • Parent topic: Installing on Windows