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A WebSphere Commerce instance can be created from the command line. The command-line utility uses Apache Ant to create the objects required. The targets are divided into several high-level groups that correspond to the environment that is to be configured.
Ant targets: Creating and configuring targets
You can create and configure, the database, the application server, the Web server, WebSphere Commerce, and workspaces using Ant targets.
CreateInstance
CreateInstance runs all instance creation actions such as database configuration, WebSphere Application Server configuration, Web server configuration, Content Management configuration, generating WebSphere Commerce instance-specific files and file permission settings.
ConfigureCommerceServer
The ConfigureCommerceServer executes steps to configure the WebSphere Application Server for the WebSphere Commerce instance. The target creates a profile, web server definition, virtual hosts, data source, and installs the WebSphere Commerce enterprise application. Finally, the web server plug-in configuration file is generated.
InstallEAR
InstallEAR installs the installable EAR into the profile's application server (server1) and maps all EJB modules to the data sources that CreateDataSourceV5 Ant target creates. The CreateVirtualHosts Ant target creates the virtual hosts which InstallEAR maps to the virtual hosts.

Ant target: InstallEAR

InstallEAR installs the installable EAR into the profile's application server (server1) and maps all EJB modules to the data sources that CreateDataSourceV5 Ant target creates. The CreateVirtualHosts Ant target creates the virtual hosts which InstallEAR maps to the virtual hosts.

Important: This Ant target is to be used only as a part of WebSphere Commerce instance creation.

Called by

ConfigureCommerceServer

Prerequisites

The Administrative server must be running to run the ConfigureCommerceServer target and any subtargets.
The createInstance.properties file must exist for this Ant target to work. For information about generating the properties file, see Ant targets.

Required parameters

instance_name: The name of the WebSphere Commerce instance with which you are working (for example, demo).

Optional parameters

sourceEARPath: The directory path to the expanded EAR to be deployed or file path to the collapsed EAR to be deployed

Example

WC_installdir/bin/config_ant.sh -DinstanceName=instance_name InstallEAR
WC_installdir/bin/config_ant.bat -DinstanceName=instance_name InstallEAR