3. Quick Installation

This is short list of the major steps to do when installing Gentics Portal.Node. Refer to the next chapter for detailed instructions.

  1. Extract gentics-portalnode-3-sharedlibs.zip to ${catalina.home}/shared/lib/.

  2. The libraries found in the directory ${catalina.home}/shared/lib/endorsed/ define APIs which possibly also exist in the JVM in other versions. Therefore those libraries need to override the JVM APIs to avoid version conflicts. This can be achieved in one of the two possible ways:

    • Either copy those libraries to the configured JVM endorsed directory (which would normally be <java-home>/lib/endorsed)
    • Or define the system environment variable $JAVA_ENDORSED_DIR to point to the directory ${catalina.home}/shared/lib/endorsed/.

  3. Copy gentics/ to ${catalina.home}/conf/.

  4. Finish application server configuration:

    • manager user in tomcat and portalconfiguration

    • emptySessionPath in tomcatconfiguration

    • JVM memory in startup scripts

  5. Deploy Portal.Node.war.

  6. (Optionally) deploy GenticsImageStore.war.

  7. Open http://[hostname]/Portal.Node/ in your browser.

  8. Follow the instructions to activate the portal by downloading license.key file.