Installing oracle portal

Before you begin, make sure you have completed pre-installation tasks listed in Table After the products are installed, you can run the Oracle Fusion Middleware Configuration Wizard to configure the product s of your choice. Depending on your specific needs, there are multiple places where you can obtain Oracle Fusion Middleware software. Select one of the download locations and download "SOA Suite. After you download the archive file, unpack the archive file into a directory of your choice on the machine where you will be performing the installation.

To start the installer, go to the directory where you unpacked the archive file and switch to the Disk1 directory. If you choose to start the installer without using the -jreLoc parameter, see Section 2. If you do not specify the JRE location with the -jreLoc option, you will be prompted to provide the location of your JRE before the installer is started. For example, on a UNIX operating system:. After the installation is complete, review the installation log files. Refer to Section D.

If you are installing on a UNIX operating system, and if this is the first time any Oracle product is being installed on your system with the Oracle Universal Installer, you will be asked to provide the location of an inventory directory. This is where the installer will set up subdirectories and maintain inventory data for each Oracle product that is installed on this system.

Follow the instructions in Table to configure the inventory directory information. For more details, click on the screen name in the table, or click the Help button in the GUI. Table Inventory Directory and Group Screens. Specify the Oracle inventory directory and group permissions for that directory.

When you install OracleAS Portal, some default database schemas and user accounts are also installed. Refer to Section 6. The deployment of the portal applications in the middle tier also occurs at this time.

The following steps are performed at this time:. The portal repository contains the default preference store of this WSRP container. The Portal Dependency Settings file iasconfig. Out of the box, the initialization parameters for this new database are suitable for a very small OracleAS Portal configuration with few users. If you plan to use OracleAS Portal, it is recommended that you modify the initialization parameters for the database based on the requirements for installing the OracleAS Metadata Repository in an existing database, using the settings specified in the Oracle Application Server Installation Guide.

As you make changes in your configuration, you may need to further tune the initialization parameters based on the size of your configuration, and the number of simultaneous users of OracleAS Portal.

Refer to the Oracle Application Server Portal Installation and Upgrade Guide for more information about the steps performed during an upgrade. This guide is classified into two parts and depending on whether you are installing OracleAS Portal for the first time, or, are upgrading from an earlier release of OracleAS Portal, refer to the relevant part in the guide as follows:. Refer to the part titled "Installation" if you are installing an OracleAS Portal instance for the first time.

Here you can view the documentation library, take the Quick Tour, and run demos. To run the demos, click the Demonstrations tab and then select Portal and Wireless from the Navigation panel.

Enter both the hostname and the fully qualified domain name. For example, enter host. Install Oracle Single Sign-On 10 g If you installed Oracle Internet Directory 11 g During configuration, you will be able to hook up your installation with Oracle Single Sign-On. Oracle Fusion Middleware 11 g Release 1 Existing packages will be updated to the new version the first time either an Oracle Portal 11 g repository is installed or when an existing Oracle Portal repository is upgraded to 11 g.

When the OWA update takes place, packages from existing Oracle Portal schemas that reside in the same database will become invalid. The OWA update ends with an attempt to revalidate all invalid packages in all Oracle Portal schemas in the existing database instance. If you choose to install Oracle Forms and Oracle Reports on different servers, you must perform some manual configuration in order for these two products to be able to communicate properly with each other.

The instructions for doing so are available in section Edit the nodemanager. This option installs the product binaries in an Oracle home directory and creates and configures a working instance in an Oracle instance directory. After this is complete, you should be able to begin configuring and managing your products using the Administration Console or Enterprise Manager. This option can be used to quickly create multiple instances of the software that share a common disk.

This section contains information and instructions for installing Oracle Portal, Forms, Reports and Discoverer. The following topics are covered:. Refer to Section F. If you are installing on a UNIX operating system, and if this is the first time any Oracle product is being installed on your system with the Oracle Universal Installer, you will be asked to provide the location of an inventory directory.

This is where the installer will set up subdirectories and maintain inventory data for each Oracle product that is installed on this system. Follow the instructions in Table to configure the inventory directory information. For more help, select the screen name in the table below, or click the Help button in the GUI.

Table Inventory Directory and Group Screens. Specify the Oracle inventory directory and group permissions for that directory. The group must have write permissions to the Oracle inventory directory. If you do not wish to use the Oracle central inventory, you can create a file called oraInst. Then, you can start the installer and point to the oraInst. For example, on UNIX operating systems:. Follow the instructions in this section to install and configure the latest Oracle Portal, Forms, Reports and Discoverer software.

If you need additional help with any of the installation screens, refer to Appendix A, "Oracle Portal, Forms, Reports and Discoverer Installation Screens" or click Help to access the online help. Provide your E-mail address and My Oracle Support password if you want to be informed of the latest product issues through the My Oracle Support web site.

After the installation is complete, you must run the Patch Set Installer for Oracle Portal, Forms, Reports and Discoverer to update your software to the latest version. After you have patched your software to the latest version, you are ready to configure your components. Go to Section 2. After you have started the Configuration Tool, follow the instructions in Table Table Configuration Tool Flow.