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Administering Connections 6 CR6
Welcome to the HCL Connections 6 CR6 documentation. HCL Connections is social networking software designed for the workplace. Its features help you to establish dynamic networks that connect you to the people and information you need to achieve your business goals.
Installing
To install IBM® Connections, you need to follow a detailed series of procedures.
Post-installation tasks
After installation, you need to perform further tasks to ensure an efficient deployment.
Configuring IBM® HTTP Server
When you have successfully installed IBM® Connections to run on WebSphere® Application Server, you can configure IBM HTTP Server to handle web traffic.

Administering Connections 6 CR6
Welcome to the HCL Connections 6 CR6 documentation. HCL Connections is social networking software designed for the workplace. Its features help you to establish dynamic networks that connect you to the people and information you need to achieve your business goals.
- What's new in HCL Connections 6
  Find out about features that are new or updated in this release of HCL Connections.
- Product overview
  Learn how to deploy, customize, and administer the IBM Connections social networking product.
- Planning
  Before installing HCL Connections™, study the system requirements, deployment options, and documentation conventions.
- Installing
  To install IBM® Connections, you need to follow a detailed series of procedures.
  - The installation process
    Review the steps that are required to install IBM® Connections.
  - Pre-installation tasks
    Complete the following tasks before installing IBM® Connections. If you are migrating from a prior release of IBM Connections, do not complete the tasks for creating databases or populating the Profiles database. The migration process handles those tasks automatically.
  - Installing IBM® Connections
    Select the IBM® Connections applications that you plan to use and install them in a clustered deployment.
  - Post-installation tasks
    After installation, you need to perform further tasks to ensure an efficient deployment.
    - Registering custom widgets
      Register all custom and third-party widgets with Conenctions 6 to ensure they meet security requirements and can display in communities.
    - Reviewing the JVM heap size
      Review the size of the Java™ Virtual Machine heap and adjust it, if necessary, to avoid out-of-memory errors or to suit your hardware capabilities.
    - Configuring IBM® HTTP Server
      When you have successfully installed IBM® Connections to run on WebSphere® Application Server, you can configure IBM HTTP Server to handle web traffic.
      - Defining IBM® HTTP Server
        Define IBM® HTTP Server to manage web connections. If you select to configure HTTP Server at the beginning of the Connections installation, you would perform this task at that point; otherwise you would perform this after installation completes.
      - Mapping applications to IBM® HTTP Server
        Map IBM® Connections applications to IBM HTTP Server.
      - Verifying application mappings
        Complete this task only if you did not select to configure IBM® HTTP Server during the installation IBM Connections.
      - Editing the XML configuration file
      - Configuring IBM® HTTP Server for an encrypted connection
        Configure IBM® HTTP Server to use an encrypted connection.
      - Adding certificates to the WebSphere® trust store
        Import a self-signed IBM® HTTP Server certificate into the default trust store of IBM WebSphere® Application Server.
      - Determining which files to compress
        If you are not compressing content with the IBM® WebSphere® Application Server Edge components or a similar device, configure the IBM HTTP Server to compress certain types of content to improve browser performance.
      - Updating IBM® Connections to use the HTTP server
        Update the web addresses that IBM® HTTP Server uses to access IBM Connections applications.
      - Allow Upload To Files Application
      - Configuring file downloads through IBM® HTTP Server
        Configure IBM® HTTP Server to manage file downloads from Activities, Files, Libraries, Mobile, and Wikis. This approach is more efficient than using IBM WebSphere® Application Server to serve file downloads.
      - Configuring file uploads through IBM® HTTP Server
        Configure the IBM® HTTP Server to manage file uploads from Activities and Files. This approach is more efficient than using the IBM WebSphere® Application Server to receive files larger than 500 MB.
    - Configuring the Home page administrator
      Create an administrator for Home page so that you can make changes to the application such as adding and removing widgets.
    - Configuring additional IBM Connections applications
      You must perform additional tasks to enable IBM Connections for the Orient Me home page, the Touchpoint interactive user experience, Community Libraries, Community Surveys, Metrics applications, and more.
    - Optional: Installing and configuring the Ephox Editors for IBM Connections
      IBM® Connections 6.0 CR5 can use the optional Ephox Editors: TinyMCE or Textbox.io, to replace the IBM Connections default rich text editor.
    - Optional post-installation tasks
      Complete the post-installation tasks that are relevant to your deployment.
  - Uninstalling IBM® Connections
    Uninstall IBM® Connections.
- Migrating and updating
  Migrate IBM® Connections and its supporting software to the latest release and then update the installation with the latest interim fixes or Cumulative Refresh (CR).
- Administering
  Run administration and maintenance tasks to keep your environment up-to-date. For example, learn how to customize your deployment or how to use the wsadmin utility to edit configuration files. You can also schedule tasks, maintain application databases, moderate content, or manage users and their roles.
- Customizing
  Customize IBM® Connections to fit your environment.
- Security
  IBM® Connections provides a flexible security infrastructure that supports an open, easily shareable data model.
- Mobile
  See the IBM Connections Mobile documentation for Connections Cloud and Connections on-premises.
- Developing
  Get information about how to use the APIs provided with IBM® Connections and how to use Connections Customizer to modify the Connections pages that are returned to users.
- Troubleshooting and support
  To isolate and resolve problems with your IBM® products, you can use the troubleshooting and support information. This information contains instructions for using the problem-determination resources that are provided with your IBM products, including HCL Connections™.

Configuring IBM® HTTP Server

When you have successfully installed IBM® Connections to run on WebSphere® Application Server, you can configure IBM® HTTP Server to handle web traffic.

Prerequisites

You have installed and configured the prerequisite software.

IBM® WebSphere® Application Server with the latest version and fixes
IBM® HTTP Server with the latest version and fixes
IBM® Web server plug-ins with the latest version and fixes
IBM® Connections and databases

Configuring the IBM® HTTP server

Depending on whether the IBM HTTP server was installed and configured during Connections installation, some of the these tasks might already have been performed. Configure IBM® HTTP Server to manage web requests to IBM® Connections by following these steps.

Note: When you configure an HTTP server or change the URL used by end users to access Connections, you must also re-configure FileNet® Collaboration Services with the base URL of the HTTP server. See Configuring the FileNet® deployment used by Libraries for more information.

Disabling edge-side-include caching

Edge-side-include (ESI) caching is enabled by default in WebSphere Application Server. You must disable it for IBM Connections. If it is not disabled, it will cause problems for the IBM Connections Surveys application.

To disable ESI caching, in the WebSphere Administration Console, go to Servers > Server Types > Web servers > web_server_name > Plug-in properties > Caching and deselect Enable Edge Side Include (ESI) processing to cache the responses. Save the configuration and synchronize nodes. Then generate the plugin configuration, propagate it, and restart the HTTP server or servers.

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