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Configure Your Existing Web Application Server

The Configure Web Application Server screen displays during installation after you specify an existing server in the Select Web Application Server screen. To properly install web components on your web application server, you must provide specific configuration information about your existing web application server.

To configure your existing web application server

1. Select your existing web application server from the drop-down list of web application server types.
2. Click Next to continue with the installation.

   The information required for supported web application servers is as follows:

   Tomcat 5.5

   • Server Instance: Name of the current web application server instance (for example, localhost)
   • Service Name: Name of the Windows service if the application server will be installed as a windows service (for example, Tomcat5)
   • Application Server Installation Directory: The directory where the web application server is installed (for example, C:\wdeploy\appserver\Tom cat5520)

   WebLogic 10

   • Port: Administration port of the application server (for example, 7001)
   • Username: User name with administration rights to the application server
   • Password: Password for account with administration rights to the application server
   • Server Instance: Name of the current web application server instance (for example, mserver1)
   • Application Server Domain Root Directory: The WebLogic domain root directory (for example, C:\bea\weblogic10\user_projects\do mains\base_domain)

   WebLogic 9.2

   • Port: Administration port of the application server (for example, 7001)
   • Username: User name with administration rights to the application server
   • Password: Password for account with administration rights to the application server
   • Server Instance: Name of the current web application server instance (for example, mserver1)
   • Application Server Domain Root Directory: The directory where the web application server is installed (for example, C:\bea\user_projects\domains\base_domain)

   WebSphere 6.1

   • SOAP Port: The SOAP Connector Port of the application server (for example, 8880)
   • Username: User name with administration rights to the WebSphere application server
   • Password: Password for account with administration rights to the application server
   • Server Instance: Name of the current web application server instance (for example, server1)
   • Virtual Host: The virtual host to which the application must be bound
   • Admin is Secure?: Select this option to enable security requiring administrative access credentials to the application

     Note: Values for the username and password parameters must be set when Admin is Secure is enabled.

   • Application Server Installation Directory: The directory where the web application server is installed (for example, C:\Program Files\IBM\WebSphere\AppServer)

   Oracle Application Server 10g R3

   • Admin is Secure?: Select this option to use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption for authentication

     Note: If Admin is Secure? is not selected, you will still have to specify the username and password to access the server.

   • Port: Administration port of the application server (for example, 6003)

     This should be the request port of the <notification-server> element in the opmn.xml file.

   • Username: User with administration rights to the application server
   • Password: Password for account with administration rights to the application server
   • Server Instance: Name of the Oracle Application Server application server instance (for example, home)
   • Server Name: Name of the target application server (for example, myserver.domain.com)
   • Group Id: Name of the server group to which the target application belongs (for example, Default_ group)
   • Application Server Installation Directory: The directory where the web application server is installed (for example, C:\product\10.1.3\OracleAS_1)

   The Start Installation screen displays.

Note: Remember your credentials for the web application server as they may be required to install add-ons such as additional language packs.