Oracle UCM installation-getting it up guide 1

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Assumptions:
• Appropriate installation documents are available for each software, so
none are included as part of this document. Pls follow them accordingly
where required.
• Assuming all these softwares are being installed on the same physical
machine, if different pls follow the installation guidelines as stated in the
software vendors documentation.
• Following software versions used:
o Oracle Database 10g Express Edition for Microsoft Windows
http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/database/xe/index.html

o Apache HTTP Server 2.2

http://httpd.apache.org/download.cgi

o Oracle Content Server 10gR3

http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/content-management/index.html

Installation:
• DB Install:
Used Oracle XE version.
Download the installable and install it, no specific details reqd for installation

• Web server install:

Used Apache http server, download and install, no specific details reqd.
Just remember to use a different port than default 8080, as it will conflict with
OracleXE’s web console port (used port 80 instead); else make sure to have a
different port for OracleXE.

• Content server install:

Carefully read the installation guidelines before starting this installation, as
the uninstallation of content server is bit cumbersome, and requires manual
intervention.
Write down the parameters required beforehand.
Will need the db details (url, id/pwd, etc.), content server name to be
created, web server address/port. Etc.

If the Content server and its admin server are installed as service, they can
be managed as windows services; else will have to be started/stopped
manually.
Will need the admin server, if you are installing UCM components like,
SiteStudio, Dynamic Converter, etc.

Configure:
• DB:
o Update # of processes for the db
“ALTER SYSTEM SET PROCESSES=150 SCOPE=SPFILE;”
Reqd, as the number of db processes Content server needs to
function, exceeds the default ones. You will get n number of sql errors
like “table not found”, etc. which are kind of deterrent, so just get the
default number of processes updated. This is one time activity and
does not need any attention later on.

o Create content server db

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Create an db account for the content server to use, used “pradeepm”.
You will need this while installing the content server.

• Web server:
o Update httpd.conf for content server instance entry
If hard to find, just go to Start> All Programs> ApacheHTTPServer>
Configure HTTP Server> Edit the httpd.conf file.
Appropriate entries can be found in the installation guidelines
document

• Content server:
o Install further components, if reqd:
Dynamic Converter - for making the native documents web
viewable, once installed you will get a “Convert to html” button on the
content check in page.

Sitestudio component – for creating the websites, ofcourse.

o Set default project document information

You will have to go to the content server console to get this done.
Administration > Site Studio Administration> Set default Project
Document information link.

Starting the Content Server:

Go to Start > All Programs > Oracle Content Server > idc > Content server
This idc may change as per the content server name specified while installing,
kept it default as “idc”.
This will open a new cmd window and it will show the logs,

Stopping the Content Server:

Ctrl+C the above window.

Accessing the Content Server:

Based on the port used, the content server name given, the hostname used,
the content server access link varies,
http://<host-name>:<port>/<contentserver name>

I used the following:

http://localhost:80/idc

And the default admin uid/pass will be sysadmin/idc.