WebCenter Sites and WebCenter Content simultaneous installations

Among many projects that you would implement, simultaneous installations of WebCenter Sites and WebCenter Content are going to be more and more frequent ones nowadays. Specially looking at the popularity of Sites as an Web Experience Management suite and it being a not a proper Document Management tool. So the combination of these products within the Fusion Middleware stack provides a killer combo.

So, as part of any large scale setup that you would do, there has to be lot of things that needs to be planned and implemented on paper much before that you would actually touch the systems for installations.

Plan for these items beforehand:

1. Ports that would be required per server
2. Shared mounts that will be required
3. Individual paths on each servers, that need to be same on each ones 🙂
4. Installation sequence (Providing one that I had followed)
5. Identifying Authoring/Management nodes and delivery modes
6. CAS urls and/or LDAP integration details, if any
7. Passwords for the system users(if you are installing 20+ installations as part of the setup you need to be very imaginative for this)
8. Access between different environments for you to publish the code and WCS elements between them
9. Plan your time ahead, as you need to install WCS again on each node, that too one Primary server each setup and all others as Cluster nodes
10. WebCenter Sites needs these 4 folders , first 3 needs to be setup on each node individually and the 4th one should be shared across nodes
    1. /xxx/sites – <wcs_install>
    2. /xxx/deploy – <wcs_deploy>
    3. /xxx/tmp – <wcs_temp>
    4. /xxx/wcs_shared- <wcs_shared>
11. Understand NodeNanager and its functions
12. Ports and IPaddress required for the various cache requirements(4 of them)

Once you have this info, start putting in tickets for the unix users and the installation binaries 🙂

Follow this sequence for the WCS and WCC setup under the same Middleware home (Assuming database already installed and available for usage)

1. Create/map the folders defined above accordingly
2. Install jdk and configure JAVA_HOME
3. Install Weblogic and note the Weblogic Home
4. Install WCC (This is required before you do Sites installation)
5. Create WCS domain (from <weblogic_home>/common/bin/config.sh)
6. Define the cluster using the newly created domain
7. Install WCS on the primary server
8. Configure/Deploy CAS and CS apps
9. Test the primary server setup
10. Continue to install/configure the remaining WCS nodes as Cluster nodes of this setup
11. Create WCC domain (from <weblogic_home>/Oracle_ECM1/common/bin/config.sh>
12. Configure WCC domain and startup the servers

Pls follow the official guidelines accordingly.