Installing WebSphere 8 on windows

Download from:http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/download/preconfig.jsp?id=2010-03-30+14%3A40%3A55.882659R&S_TACT=104CBW71&S_CMP=rss

Step 1 - Beta Download: WebSphere Application Server 8.0

Step 2 - Beta Download: WebSphere Application Server 8.0

Step 3: - Beta Download: WebSphere Application Server 8.0

Select the following downloads and use the HTTP Download Director so that you downloads can resume if connection is lost.

IBM WebSphere Application Server 8.0 Beta (Part 1 of 3)beta.was.repo.8000.base_1_Oct22_2010.zip (all 3 parts are required) (841 MB)

IBM WebSphere Application Server 8.0 Beta (Part 2 of 3)beta.was.repo.8000.base_2_Oct22_2010.zip (all 3 parts are required) (845 MB)

IBM WebSphere Application Server 8.0 Beta (Part 3 of 3)beta.was.repo.8000.base_3_Oct22_2010.zip (all 3 parts are required) (862 MB)

IBM Installation Manager for Windows on Inteliim.win32.x86_1.4.2000.20100901_0107.zip (97 MB)

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Unzip the IBM Installation Manager into c:/temp and run install

You will then be presented with the loading scree.

Once loaded,"Click Next" as shown below

Accept the license and click Next to continue

Select an appropriate path into which the installer will be installed.

Click install as shown below

The installer has now completed, close and run the Installation Manager

Or click "Restart Installation Manager" button

When the IIM loads it will ask for a username and password to connect to the online IBM repository. We do not want to do this as we have already downloaded the files.

Click File-Preferences to change the location of the repository files

Make sure that you expand all the downloaded files into a known location:

Click Add a repository.In my example I chose the C:\temp\was8_repo\C:\temp\was8_repo\repository.config which is where the installation is located

We can now see that the repository is located

You can now click Install

When you click install you can see the following

Ensure that version 8.0.0.0 is selected

Click Next to continue and select an appropriate installation location

Select everything but the samples

Continue until the installation starts

When the application server binaries have been installed,the you have the option to start the Profile Management Tool to create a profile.

Leave the "Profile Management Tool to create a profile" radio-option selected and click Finish

Select Profile Management Tool from the tools list and click Launch Selected Tool

Click Create as shown above

Click Application Server.At this stage we are not creating a management node. On the next step click the Advanced profile creation option.

Why Advanced?

Create application server using default configuration settings or specify your own values for settings such as the location of the profile and names of the profile,node and host. You can assign your own ports.You can optionally choose where to deploy the administrative console and sample application and also add web-server definitions if you wish. Web server definitions are used with IBM HTTP Server. You can search my site to learn more.

As shown above I also ensure that snoop is installed as it is a great application for testing that your server is running correctly. You can search my website for SSL secrets and this document will explain how to use snoop as part of workload management.

On the next screen ensure that Development is selected for runtime tuning to allow our server to start quickly,since it is a local test server,not production.

You can override the default assigned node name and hostname, I have left mine defaulted.

I used wasadmin/wasadmin for username/password

I then left the SSL as defaulted for both step 1 and step 2 of the SSL configuration screens

In my case I already had WebSphere 7 installed locally so mu ports where adjusted by and offset of 1.

I personally have limited resources for automatic starting, so I have requested the installer no install the windows service. We can use local bat files to start and stop the server. Up to you to decide. I find the service style takes too long to stop and start.

You can click next until the end where you can select Create to begin the installation of the profile. I skipped the Web Server definition screen as we are not going to install IHS in this example. Look at my SSL articles to understand how to install IHS.

By launching the first step console you can check that the server will run. You will also see that a new profile has been created called AppSrv01

It can be a good idea to run the Installation Verification,the sever will be started automatically using the following command:

cmd.exe /c "C:\IBM\WebSphere\AppServer\profiles\AppSrv01\bin\startServer.bat" server1 -profileName AppSrv01

As shown above the server has started successfully, we can now log into the admin console by opening the following URL:

http://localhost::9061/ibm/console

The server will redirect tohttps://localhost:9044/ibm/console/logon.jsp, the HTTPS port. You will need to accept the security exception since we are using a private SSLcertificate.

You will notice the new login screen, log in using wasadmin/wasadmin and see what the new IBM WebSphere Application Server version 8 Beta has to offer.