Can JBoss Portal be installed with JBoss AS 4.0.5

[nm-156]

Hi. I cannot find any documentation describing how to install JBoss portal on an existing JBoss 4.0.5 AS. Can anybody tell me if this can be done? The only installation instruction I could find recommend downloading the JBoss Portal + JBoss AS. I would prefer to just install the portal.

Thanks.

[prabhat.jha]

Yes, it can. The portal documentation should talk about it. In summary this is what needs to be done:

1. copy portal datasources xml file to server/YOUR_CONFIG/deploy and jdbc driver jar to server/YOUR_CONFIG/lib

2. copy jboss-portal.sar to server/YOUR_CONFIG/deploy

That should do it.

[nm-156]

Thanks so much for the advice. I will give it a shot and post back my findings.

[nm-156]

Everything works great. If you have an existing server, all you have to do is:

- Download JBoss portal component
- Unzip it and copy the .sar folder to your server's deploy directory
- Finally, under the setup directory that comes with the distribution,
just pick up the Hypersonic deployment descriptor and put it in the
deploy directory. This will be sufficient for a local test server.

And that's it. Just start the server, and point at http:/localhost:8080/portal

Also - The documentation that comes with the portal download is really good. You can check out the .pdf files in the /docs directory for more info on getting started.