Installing ALUI with Oracle 10g On MS WinXP

Installing ALUI with Oracle 10g

Bishnu Kumar's Blog | December 13, 2007   4:43 AM

When I started working with ALUI , it took me enough time to just see the first page of ALUI(ALUI Admin Console).I really struggled to just install the ALUI with Oracle 10G on my system and configure a portal desktop.ALUI installation is not as simple as Bea weblogic portal install where you don't need to configure database manually.I was little confused with the install steps at http://edocs.bea.com/alui/ali/docs61/install/index.html but finally I was able to install the ALUI on my Microsoft Windows XP SP2 operating System.Its nowhere mentioned that the ALUI can also be installed on Windows desktop operating system.According to the edocs documents its Windwos Server operating system.But I dared to install on Windows XP Operating system.Here is the simple step by step procedure for a begineer to install ALUI on Windows system.

Enviroment:
OS : Microsoft Windows XP SP2
ALUI :AquaLogicInteraction_6-1_MP1_win
Database : Oracle 10G
AppServer : Bea Weblogic 9.2
Webserver : Apache Webserver(2.0.59)
Make sure Bea weblogic Platform 9.2,Apache web server and Oracle 10g is already installed on your local system.
Steps:
First of all create the database for ALUI portal.Here is the simple steps for creating database
(1) Open the command Prompt (Start->Run->cmd) and set the following Oracle Enviroment Variables:
set ORACLE_BASE=D:\oracle\product\10.2.0
set ORACLE_HOME=D:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_1
set ORACLE_SID=PLUM10
Note : Don't close the command prompt till you have executed all the steps for database configuration.
(2)Install the ALUI Software :AquaLogicInteraction_6-1_MP1_win ,the install wizard will take you to complete the installtion
Few things to remember :
Domain Name : ALUIDomain
Server Name : AdminServer
Port :7001(by default it will be 8080)
(3) Follow the steps from this link on bea site http://edocs.bea.com/alui/ali/docs61/install/quickstart.html#wp1075059 from step2 onwards.Completion of these steps will result in configuarion of Oracle 10g database
(4)Verify the ALUI installation by running the portal diagnostic ,follow Start -> All Programs -> BEA -> Portal Diagnostic.This should not give any error.If error comes ,first rectify it.
(5)Now start your weblogic server by double clicking the startWebLogic.cmd at location D:\bea9.2.1\user_projects\domains\ALUIDomain\startWebLogic.cmd file
(6)At the edocs its not mentioned that you need to manually deploy the portal.ear or portal.war file from location D:\bea9.2.1\alui\ptportal\6.1\webapp.You can check whether your ALUI portal is running or not(http://myportal.domain.com/portal/server.pt).If you are not able to access this ,you need to manually deploy the portal.ear(or portal.war in case of tomcat) in the weblogic server admin console(http://localhost:7001/console).
(7)Once sucessfully deployed you must be able to access the ALUI Cosole http://myportal.domain.com/portal/server.pt
(8)Make sure your Apache Http Web Server is running otherwise the images will not be displayed while accessing the ALUI console and there will error in login.
(9)Login with the default userid Administrator without any password.
Note :The ALUI will work with Tomcat Also
If database is not configured properly ,ALUI admin console will not be shown