This topic describes how to upgrade a trial installation of the
Express product to the full Express product.
- Log on to the operating system.
Log on as root on an operating system such
as AIX® or Linux®, or as a member of the administrator
group on a Windows® system.
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When installing on a Windows system, a Windows service is automatically created
to autostart the application server if your installer user account
has the following advanced user rights:
- Act as part of the operating system
- Log on as a service
For example, on some Windows systems,
click
Administrative Tools > Local Security Policy > User
Rights Assignments to set the advanced options. See your Windows documentation for more
information.
The installation wizard grants your Windows user ID the advanced user rights,
if the user ID belongs to the administrator group. The silent installation
does not grant these rights. If you create a new user ID on a Windows platform to perform
a silent installation, you must restart the system to activate the
proper authorizations for the user ID before you can perform a successful
silent installation.
If you
plan to run the application server as a Windows service, do not install from a user
ID that contains spaces. A user ID with spaces cannot be validated.
Such a user ID is not allowed to continue the installation. To work
around this problem, install with a user ID that does not contain
spaces.
- Insert the disc labeled WebSphere® Application Server - Express® into the disc drive.
If you are installing a customized installation
package (CIP), insert the CD-ROM or DVD with the CIP. Or access the
directory where the CIP is located.
Mount the drive if necessary
as described in Mounting disc drives on operating systems such as AIX or Linux.
- Start the installation.
Or you can start the installation directly with the install command.
/WAS/install
\WAS\install
If you have a problem starting the launchpad, use the
troubleshooting information in Using the launchpad to start the installation to
correct the problem.
When using the launchpad, launch the installation
wizard for WebSphere Application
Server - Express.
After launching the installation wizard from
the launchpad or from the command line, the installer wizard initializes
and then displays the Welcome panel.
- Click Next to continue.
The license agreement displays.
- Read the license agreement and accept its terms.
Click the radio button beside the message I
accept the terms in the license agreement to agree to
the license agreement and click Next to continue.
After you accept the licensing terms, the installation
wizard checks for a supported operating system and prerequisite patches.
If you encounter a problem such as not having the right prerequisite
updates on your system, cancel the installation, make the required
changes, and restart the installation.
Although
the installation wizard automatically checks for prerequisite operating
system patches with the prereqChecker application, review the prerequisites
on the WebSphere Application
Server detailed system requirements web site if you have not
already done so.
Although the installation process
verifies that the minimum required version of the operating system
is available, the installation process might not correctly flag a
maintenance upgrade of that operating system version as being a supported
configuration. If you have upgraded your supported operating system
version to a higher maintenance level and you receive the following
error message, then you can ignore the message and click
Next.
Avoid trouble: Although maintenance upgrades of the same
major release are supported, subsequent
major releases of the
operating system might not be supported.
gotcha
Failed : Your operating system failed the
prerequisites check.
A supported operating system was not detected. Support for your
operating system might have been added after the release of the
product.
The Web site lists all supported
operating systems and the operating system fixes and patches that
you must install to have a compliant operating system.
Refer to the documentation for non-IBM prerequisite and
corequisite products to learn how to migrate to their supported versions.
- After confirming that your operating system is supported and that
you have installed all necessary patches, click Next to
continue.
The Installation wizard checks for a previous installation
at the same major product level.
If the wizard detects a previous installation,
it displays the Existing installation panel, where you can:
- Add maintenance to the existing installation.
- Add features to the existing installation.
- Add files, directories, enterprise application
archive (EAR) files, and configuration archive (CAR) files to the existing
installation.
- Use scripts to configure the existing system.
- Perform a new installation to another directory.
- Perform an upgrade of a trial installation to the full product.
- Perform an upgrade of an Express installation to
the full product.
This task describes the scenario where a previous installation
of the Express Trial exists and you are installing the actual Express product
to upgrade the trial.
Select the Upgrade option and click Next.
The installer program installs the new license files and updates the system
properties to indicate that the actual product is installed.
Results
The wizard completes the upgrade and exits at then end of the upgrade
without presenting another panel.
This procedure results in upgrading
a trial installation to the actual WebSphere Application Server - Express
product.
What to do next
You can install the Express product again to add features. Or
you can use the Profile Creation wizard to
create more stand-alone application servers.
Further configuration is not necessary
at this time. However, you can create additional stand-alone application
servers with the Profile Creation wizard.
Each profile is created in the profile_root directory
by default.
See Creating profiles using the graphical user interface for more information.
If you have already created
the topology that you require, try deploying an application in your environment.
See Fast paths for WebSphere Application Server to
get started deploying applications.