Web Application Platform 19.0 LTR SP4 Documentation

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Here you can learn how to run Web Application Platform with its plugins by using the no-installer package.

Prerequisites

To run the Web Application Platform with plugins:



To run Web Application Platform by using the no-install package

  1. Extract the Web_App_Platform_<version number>_noinstall.zip file
  2. Go to the <Web_App_Platform_no-installer_directory>/shared/conf directory.

  3. Open the webappplatform.properties file. The content of the file is shown below.

    

  4. Read the comments with property descriptions inside the file and specify the following:
    • Web Application Platform properties
    • Teamwork Cloud server properties
    • Authentication server properties
    • FlexNet server properties
    Specifying property values
    • Make sure you replace the placeholders in the angle brackets (<>) with actual values (e.g., Teamwork Cloud and Authentication server addresses)
    • Some properties are specified for you. You can leave their values unchanged.
    • Platform mailing engine properties are optional. You can specify them later if needed.
  5. Go to the <Web App Platform no-install directory>/conf directory.
  6. Open the catalina.properties file and edit the following property value as shown below:
    

    

  7. In your computer settings, specify the JRE_HOME and CATALINA_HOME_WEBAPP variables as shown below:
    

    

  8. Changing SSL certificates#Creating an SSL certificate file.
  9. Go to the <Web_App_Platform_no-installer_directory>\conf directory and open to edit the server.xml file.
  10. In the server.xml file, change the default values of the following properties to the actual path to certificate file and password:
    • certificateKeystoreFile="<path_to_certificate_file>"
    • certificateKeystorePassword="<password>"

    Important
    The certificateKeystorePassword property value must be the same as the -storepass and -keypass property values that you specified when creating the SSL certificate.
  11. Go to the <Web App Platform no-install directory>/bin directory.
  12. Run the startup.bat file as administrator to start the Web Application platform.
  13. Licensing information#Applying a license.

Now you can access Web Application Platform by opening a web browser and going to http(s)://<domain_name>:<port>/webapp/resources. By default, Web Application Platform uses the port 8443. Click Starting and stopping Web Application Platform, to learn how to start and stop Web Application Platform.

Specifying JRE_HOME and CATALINA_HOME_WEBAPP variables
In this section, you can learn how to specify the JRE_HOME and CATALINA_HOME_WEBAPP variables in different operating systems.

To specify variables on Windows
  1. Open Control Panel and go to System and Security > System.
  2. Select the Advanced system settings option on the left side of the System dialog.
  3. In the System Properties dialog, click the Environment Variables button.
  4. In the System variables area of the Environment Variables dialog, specify the values for the JRE_HOME and CATALINA_HOME_WEBAPP variables as shown below:
    

    

  5. Click OK.

System variables in the Environment Variables dialog on Windows

To specify variables on Linux
  1. Go to the /etc directory and open the profile file.
  2. Copy the following lines to the profile file and replace the placeholders between angle brackets (<>) with actual paths:
    

    

    Variable examples
    export CATALINA_HOME_WEBAPP=/Users/admin/Desktop/Web_App_Platform_190_noinstall
    export JRE_HOME=/usr/java/jdk1.8.0_172-amd64/
  3. Open the Terminal application and execute the following command:
    

    




















                
        
    
        


                        
    





    

	

		
    
    
            
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