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Pre-install checklist
- Stop Lotus Notes servers, Web servers, Java application servers, and any nonessential Java processes.
- Ensure that no other install programs are active. Ensure the install programs are completed or manually stop them.
- Review the WebSphere Commerce README file.
- For Linux, ensure the firewall configuration is set to permissive. If not set to permissive, a problem might be encountered when installing DB2.
- For *nix, create the user IDs and groups required by WebSphere Commerce on any machine on which you plan to install WebSphere Commerce.
- For Windows, if you have removed DB2, WAS and its plug-in, or IBM HTTP Server from the system and you want the installation wizard to install them in the same location where they were installed earlier:
- Back up any files from the directories to keep.
- Delete the directories. The directories will be recreated during the installation.
You must specify a nonexistent directory before you can continue with the installation.
- Ensure the Windows administration user ID under which the installation is performed is not the same as the host name of the machine.
For example, for a machine with a host name of ABhost, the administration user ID under which the installation is performed should not be ABhost.
- Disable any active antivirus software. Antivirus software might interfere with the installation wizard when you change DVDs in the DVD-ROM drive.
- If you have any applications running, stop them.
- Stop any database servers on the system except the one you plan to use with WebSphere Commerce.
- If you have a Web server or any other service on the machine that is currently using any of the following ports: 80, 443, 5432, 5433, 8000, 8001, 8002, 8004, 8006, or 8007, stop the Web server.
- Verify the host name of the Web server machine does not contain an underscore ( _ ).
- Uninstall Microsoft IIS if you no longer need it or stop the following services:
- IIS Admin Service
- World Wide Web Publishing Service
- Simple Mail Transport Protocol (SMTP)
Set these services to disabled, rather than manual or automatic so that the services do not start when you restart the system.
- For *nix, verify the operating system does not log the command line inputs.
By default some operating systems log the commands and parameters that are entered through a command line. This log file is not deleted when the user logs off and may be a security risk.
- Transfer installation files to a Linux for xSeries machine.
See
- Review the Readme file
- Create WebSphere Commerce users and groups
- Transfer installation files to a Linux system