How to extract a PAR File

Question

Hi All,
In the procedure of changing the Portal Logon / Logoff page ,we need to extract Par file ,modify the extracted files and then put them back,can somebody tell me how to extract a PAR file ,wt is the procedure of tat.
Regards,
Saumya

Answer 1

Hi Saumya,
First you need to retrieve the logon PAR file from the portal file system.The file is found in your EP instance,which is located at ..
/usr/sap/<instance>/j2ee/j2ee_00/cluster/services/servlet_jsp/work/jspTemp/irj/root/WEB-INF/deployement/pcd
-The file that you need is called sap.portal.runtime.logon.par.bak.
copy this file to your local directory and rename the PAR file(for eg. my.new.logon.par).It is necessary to remove the .bak extension.
-Next you can open the PAR file and modify the appropriate files.
-put modified files back into PAR file
-copy the new par file back into the deployement directory
and restart the portal to see ur changes.
Also look at the following threads for more info -
<a href="https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/message?messageID=2758339">https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/message?messageID=2758339</a>
<a href="https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/message?messageID=2225096">https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/message?messageID=2225096</a>
Regards,
Abhishek
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Message was edited by:
        Abhishek Mehra