Deploying Webcenter Application

Question

I am having a lot of difficulty deploying a webcenter application to a stand-alone weblogic server. I am currently using JDEV Drop 7 Bulid 7A.
I have set up the appropirate deployment profile. Our apps has customization (i.e. customize some Webcenter Task Flow) and skinning. I am able to deploy our apps successfully to the integrated weblogic server (i.e. start the integrated WLS and then deploy the application manually using the JDEV Deploy feature). I tried to follow the documentation as much as I could but still not successful..
[Webcenter Dev Guide|http://fmwdocs.us.oracle.com/doclibs/fmw/E10285_01/webcenter.1111/e12405/wcadm_deploy.htm#BABJEEEH]
I need to know how to setup the WLS server correctly and provision all the required libraries/applications to ensure that webcenter application can be deployed to it successfully.
Thanks in advance for any help.

Answer 1

Please see my comments below:
[GM] I'm assuming you have installed WebCenter. Is that right?
1. Install WLS 10.3 (e.g. c:\oracle\MWHOME_D7B7C)
[GM] Have you installed RCU?
2. Install JDEV Drop 7 Build 7C (include Webcenter framework) to the same directory (i.e. c:\oracle\MWHOME_D7B7C). ---> Is this step required?
[GM] Only if you want to create an ADF domain later. Otherwise, it's not.
3. Configure the domain (e.g. shcm_domain). ---> Do I need to use specific template or just take the default Weblogic to generate the basic weblogic domain?
[GM] Have you run $FMW_HOME/Oracle_WC1/common/bin/config.sh to create the WebCenter domain?
4. Modify the TargetServer.properties file
## DomainHome chosen for the installation ##
domainHome=/mwhome_D7B7C/user_projects/domains/shcm_domain/ ------> is it correct?
## OracleHome of the installation location ##
ORACLE_HOME=/mwhome_D7B7C/as11r1wc ------> is it correct?
## AdminServer URL
adminServerUrl=t3://<your_server_ip_address>:7001
## Name of the managed server you want to create
mgdServerName=CustomAppServer
## Username to access the server
user=weblogic
## Password to access the server
password=welcome1
## Port number to be configured to the new managed server
port=9996
## Use serverType "WebCenter" for generic WebCenter custom app ##
## or serverType "Portlet" for Portlet producer and bridge custom app ##
serverType=WebCenter
## If you don't want to create a custom schema for the new managed ##
## server, choose NONE, otherwise specify the name of the schema which##
## you already created. ##
customDS=NONE -----> is this the webcenter schema?
[GM] I usually don't change it. I just add my managed server as a target of WebCenterDS. Remember that I'm not talking about best practices or production environment. :)
5. Do I need to modify the CreateManagedServer.py file? if yes, which setting I need to change..
[GM] Just if you want to change things like the port of your managed server.
Good luck.