Installation tasks

Typically, you install EP in a network environment. EP also includes a demo version of the product that you can install on a local machine. The demo version is useful for sales demos, and in environments that do not have a domain name. This section discusses installing EP in a network environment, but also includes special instructions for installing the demo version.

Installation takes five to ten minutes, depending on the speed of your machine.

If you are performing an upgrade from version 6.0 to 6.1, see “Special upgrade instructions”.

Installing EP

Create an installation directory in which to install EP; for example, C:\Sybase. This directory is referred to as %SYBASE% in this guide.

Do not use spaces in the directory name. Due to a problem with Tomcat, when you install into a directory with spaces in the name, Enterprise Portal – Information Edition will not run properly.

Using a zip utility, extract the IE610.zip file from the CD into the installation directory. The command for extracting the file depends on the utility you are using.

Make sure the zip utility allows the archive to create new folders in the location where you unzip it.

Using a text editor, check the hosts file, located in C:\WINNT\system32\drivers\etc\hosts, and verify you have the following entry:

127.0.0.1	 localhost

For the demo system, enter:

127.0.0.1	 localhost demo.sybase.com

See “Changing the host, domain, and port of the portal” for information.

Save the hosts file and exit the text editor.

If you are installing the demo system, go to step 6.

If you are installing EP on a network, open a Command Prompt window, and navigate to:

%SYBASE%\infoedition

Enter config, or double-click the file in Windows Explorer.

This modifies the host name values in the global.properties.xml to the machine’s name. The global properties.xml file is located in %SYBASE%\infoedition\tomcat\webapps\onepage\config and contains many system settings.

This also modifies the host name and other values in the portalexplorer.properties file, which is located in %SYBASE%\infoedition\tomcat\webapps\portalexplorer\WEB-INF\classes\portalexplorer.properties.

By default, the domain name in the global.properties.xml file is “sybase.com.” To change the domain for your environment, modify global.properties.xml to use the domain name of the network on which your machine resides. See “Changing the host, domain, and port of the portal”.

From the Command Prompt window, enter startdb , or double-click the file in Windows Explorer.

This starts the Adaptive Server Anywhere database. You may see several “Ping server failed – Database server not found” messages. You can disregard these messages.

When the database starts, you see “Ping server successful,” and the icon for the Sybase ASA database appears in your taskbar.

From the Command Prompt window, enter starttomcat, or double-click the file in Windows Explorer.

When Tomcat starts, you see:

Starting service Tomcat-Standalone
Apache Tomcat/4.1.29

Minimize the Tomcat window. Do not close the window.

The EP installation is complete. See “Verifying the installation” to make sure the network installation works correctly.