Installing WLS from the CD ( free CD with Bea book)

Question

HI, I have not been able to install the wls from the cd I recd with the bok J2EE
application and BEA Weblogic.
/// MORE THAN THANKS ///

Answer 1

David,
I suspect that you are going to have a lot of problems related to the new book,
because the procedure I found on the BEA website did not work with the software
on the CD-ROM.
What did work was fairly simple:
1) Set up the PATH and CLASSPATH environment variables to point toward an existing
instance of jdk1.3 BEFORE installing WLServer6.0, so it can find the jdk.
2) Install wlserver6.0 from the CD,
3) Download the license.bea file from the BEA website.
4) Copy the downloaded file into the c:\bea over the 'license_new.bea' file in
that directory. The 6.0 server
seemed (in my experience) to be completely disregarding everything I did to 'license.bea',
which made the instructions on the website useless to me.
David Felts <[email protected]> wrote:
UpdateLicense.cmd should be run from your BEA Home. Make sure you have
the JDK 1.3 bin
directory in your path to allow invocation of Java, and you should be
set. Run
UpdateLicense <new_license_file>, which will automatically update your
license.bea file
(make sure you have a license.bea file in your BEA Home before you run
this command so
the <new_license_file> can update the existing license.bea. The license.bea
file is
used by the server.
Donald Stadler wrote:
I got a copy of UpdateLicense.cmd from a colleague who previously downloadedWL6.0,
but invoking the command file throws an exception:
NoClassDefFoundError: com/bea/installer/registry/LicenseMerger
Either the installation program from the book doesn't work at all orit requires
some specific level of WIndows permission which I don't have by default.If the
CD requires admin permission, the CD page of the book (last page) doesn'tmention
it.
What do I do? Uninstall and retry?
Don
"Donald Stadler" <[email protected]> wrote:
According to the Web docs the UpdateLicense.cmd file is supposed to
be
installed
into the base Weblogic directory and available for use. The installation
program
on the CD didn't do that in my case.
Now what?
Don
"Donald Stadler" <[email protected]> wrote:
BTW, It's an honor to be dealing with one of the authors! I'm impressed!
It looks
a good book. BTW, does WL6.0 run under Windoze98. I'm thinking of
trying
it at
home. My work box runs Windows 2000.
"Donald Stadler" <[email protected]> wrote:
"Michael Girdley" <----> wrote:
What was the problem you found? Did you get the license from the
download
site?
Thanks,
Michael GirdleyHi, Mike. I'm having the same problem so I will pick this discussion
up.
I downloaded the 'license.bea' file and copied it into the base
directory
which
the instructions in the 'J2EE Applications and BEA WebLogic Server'book
said
to use, namely 'c:\wlserver6.0'.
Starting the Weblogic server did not work, so I went looking further.
I found
instructions to 'update' the license at:
http://e-docs.bea.com/wls/docs61/install/instlic.html#1036112
and renamed the 'license.bea' file to 'license.foo', then ran the
following commands as specified (I think this is what the instructions
meant to
do):
C:\wlserver6.0> set PATH=.;c:\JBuilder4\jdk1.3;%PATH%
C:\wlserver6.0> UpdateLicense license.foo
The error message was:
'UpdateLicense' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable
program, or batch file.
The problem may be in the PATH, as the actual instructions for amending
the PATH
were:
"set PATH=.\jdk1.3;%PATH%"
Unfortunately this would have pointed my path into a nonexistant
instance
of jdk1.3
located in the Weblogic6.0 directory, so I tried to be intelligentand
point it
to the actual instance of jdk1.3.
It seems to me that this either wasn't tested as a 'bare-box' installation
or
that the documentation was not written with the benefit of such
an
installation.
What is UpdateLicense and where is it located? Every day counts
when
you are on
a 30-day evaluation period!.........