WebSphere

Foolproof way of transferring WebSphere Portal From Derby to DB2

Ok. I have seen several pieces of documentation on this. Lots of tutorials out there. However all of the sites and tutorials do not have all the steps mentioned clearly. I am trying to make this as comprehensive as possible. Try this on a Trial or test Portal Server, preferably a VM with a Snapshot …

WCM Workspace findByName(DocumentTypes.SiteArea, “”) or findByType(DocumentTypes.SiteArea) does not return root level items

When you are developing using the custom WCM API, espcially where I am using 8.0.0.1, I could not get to the root level site areas at all using the above methods. It was driving me crazy when I went in detail through the documentation where they have mentioned this work around. Use the following method …

Installing Portal Express 8 Trial on RedHat Enterprise Linux

Download the following packages from the Trial download IBM site Portal_Express_8.0_Trial_Install1of6.zip Portal_Express_8.0_Trial_Install2of6.zipPortal_Express_8.0_Trial_Install3of6.zipPortal_Express_8.0_Trial_Install4of6.zipPortal_Express_8.0_Trial_Install5of6.zipPortal_Express_8.0_Trial_Install6of6.zipPortal_Express_V8.0_Trial_Setup1of2.zipPortal_Express_V8.0_Trial_Setup2of2.zipPortal_Exp_Trial_WASND_8.0.0.3_1of3.zipPortal_Exp_Trial_WASND_8.0.0.3_2of3.zipPortal_Exp_Trial_WASND_8.0.0.3_3of3.zip Create a directory under /tmp cd /tmpmkdir WPScd WPS Unzip all the files using the following commands (assuming all of these exist under /tmp) unzip /tmp/Portal_Express_8.0_Trial_Install1of6.zipunzip /tmp/Portal_Express_8.0_Trial_Install2of6.zipunzip /tmp/Portal_Express_8.0_Trial_Install3of6.zipunzip /tmp/Portal_Express_8.0_Trial_Install4of6.zipunzip /tmp/Portal_Express_8.0_Trial_Install5of6.zipunzip /tmp/Portal_Express_8.0_Trial_Install6of6.zipunzip /tmp/Portal_Express_V8.0_Trial_Setup1of2.zipunzip /tmp/Portal_Express_V8.0_Trial_Setup2of2.zipunzip /tmp/Portal_Exp_Trial_WASND_8.0.0.3_1of3.zipunzip /tmp/Portal_Exp_Trial_WASND_8.0.0.3_2of3.zipunzip /tmp/Portal_Exp_Trial_WASND_8.0.0.3_3of3.zip Ensure you have Firefox installed. If not install …