Deploying jazz.war on WebSphere Application Server

This topic describes how to deploy the jazz.war on WebSphere Application Server

About this task

In the following command line examples, WASInstallDir represents the location where WebSphere® Application Server is installed on your server.
  • On Windows®, the default value for WebSphere installation directory is:
    C:\Program Files\IBM\WebSphere\AppServer
    You can restart the server with the following commands on Windows: 
    cd WASInstallDir\bin 
stopServer.bat server1 [for a secure server, include: -username {LDAP_User} -password {LDAP_Password}] 
startServer.bat server1
  • On Linux®, the default value for WebSphere installation directory is:
    /opt/IBM/WebSphere/AppServer
    You can restart the server with the following commands on Linux:
    cd WASInstallDir/bin 
./stopServer.sh server1 [for a secure server, include: -username {LDAP_User} -password {LDAP_Password}] 
./startServer.sh server1

Procedure

  1. Open the Admin console for your WebSphere Application Server.
  2. Click on Applications > Install New Application. (For WebSphere Application Server 7.0.0.7 and later, click on Applications > New Application > New Enterprise Application. )
  3. Under Path to new Application, click Local file system.
  4. Under Full path enter: 
    JazzInstallDir/server/tomcat/webapps/jazz.war
  5. Set Context Root to /jazz and then click Next.
    Note: This step appears toward the end of the installation in WebSphere Application Server 7.0.0.7 and later.
  6. Click Next and continue through the remaining Install New Application steps.
  7. Click Finish.
  8. Verify that the jazz_war application was installed and click Save directly to the master configuration.
  9. Click on Applications > Enterprise Applications.
  10. Select the box next to jazz_war; click Start.

    A green arrow should appear indicating the application started successfully.

    Note: The remaining steps are for Rational® Quality Manager only.
  11. Return to the Install New Application page.
  12. Browse to the location of the help.war file on the local file system and select the file. Type the context root as /help and click Next.
    Note: You can find the help.war file at JazzInstallDir\server\tomcat\webapps\help.war.
  13. Continue clicking Next until you see the Summary screen, then click Finish to install the new application.
  14. Verify that the help_war application was installed and click Save to save the changes to the Master Configuration file.
  15. Click on Applications > Enterprise Applications.
  16. Select help_ war and click Start.
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