Configuration Wizard: Set up a stand-alone server | HCL Digital Experience
You created a stand-alone, demonstration environment with IBM Installation Manager. Now you are ready to change your demonstration environment into a production-ready, distributed stand-alone server environment. To begin, you can use the Database Transfer option to transfer your database from the default database, Apache Derby, to a more robust database. After your data is transferred, you can change from the built-in file-based repository to a federated repository. Then, you can choose to modify your site URLs for search engine optimization benefits.
- Workload management. Database workload is distributed to another server.
- Improved security. You can place the web server outside the firewall to direct traffic to the portal server.
- Potential for growth. You can add more servers later as traffic increases.
A distributed, stand-alone server topology is useful for the following types of users:
- A company or organization that does not need a cluster environment for failover or high availability.
- A company or organization that needs an environment to test your applications and designs before these applications and designs go to the live server.
- A company or organization with limited server resources that wants to set up a department server or small website.
You can select the stand-alone topology to set up to four different environments. This topology is used to set up a demonstration environment, a portlet and theme development environment, a web content development environment, and a stand-alone server, distributed environment.
See a list of the topology options available to you for setting up an environment. Use the descriptions to guide you in selecting the best topology to apply to your environment.