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HCL Digital Experience Product Documentation
Welcome to the product documentation for HCL Digital Experience. Find information about how to install, configure, maintain, and use HCL Web Content Manager and HCL Portal Server, Enable, and Extend solutions.
HCL Digital Experience 9.0
Learn how to install, configure, troubleshoot, maintain, and use Version 9.0 of HCL Web Content Manager and HCL Portal Server, Enable, and Extend.
Configuring
Run the following tasks after you install and deploy HCL Digital Experience. They address tasks that are typically run one time and have a global effect. Some configuration changes are made more frequently or do not have a global effect. These tasks are addressed in the Administering section.
Configuration Wizard
Use the Configuration Wizard to set up stand-alone servers and new deployments, create clusters, migrate and update to new versions, and add new capabilities to existing deployments.
Accessing the Configuration Wizard
The home page of the Configuration Wizard provides access to common configuration tasks. Supported tasks include setting up a stand-alone server, setting up a cluster, transferring from Apache Derby to another supported database, migrating your server, installing add-ons, and more.

HCL Digital Experience Product Documentation
Welcome to the product documentation for HCL Digital Experience. Find information about how to install, configure, maintain, and use HCL Web Content Manager and HCL Portal Server, Enable, and Extend solutions.
- HCL Digital Experience 9.5
- HCL Digital Experience 9.5 [Legacy Content]
- HCL Digital Experience 9.0
  Learn how to install, configure, troubleshoot, maintain, and use Version 9.0 of HCL Web Content Manager and HCL Portal Server, Enable, and Extend.
  - Overview
    HCL Digital Experience provides a single access point to web content and applications, while it delivers differentiated, personalized experiences per user.
  - Supported migration paths
    Migration is supported between equivalent offerings. Starting with CF17, additional migration options are supported for HCL Portal server and HCL Web Content Manager offerings.
  - Getting the software
    New and existing users need to sign up or register at HCL Software and download their HCL Digital Experience package.
  - Installing
    HCL Digital Experience provides flexible deployment options that range from proof-of-concept where you can examine and test functionality to a highly available and scalable production environment. Review the planning information to learn more about hardware and software requirements, high availability, scalability, supported topologies, and much more. Select your operating system and then select the installation pattern that most reflects your business needs.
  - Migrating to WebSphere Application Server V9.0
    If you are installing HCL Digital Experience Version 9.0, migrate your IBM WebSphere Application Server to Version 9.0.
  - Configuring
    Run the following tasks after you install and deploy HCL Digital Experience. They address tasks that are typically run one time and have a global effect. Some configuration changes are made more frequently or do not have a global effect. These tasks are addressed in the Administering section.
    - Configuration Wizard
      Use the Configuration Wizard to set up stand-alone servers and new deployments, create clusters, migrate and update to new versions, and add new capabilities to existing deployments.
      - Accessing the Configuration Wizard
        The home page of the Configuration Wizard provides access to common configuration tasks. Supported tasks include setting up a stand-alone server, setting up a cluster, transferring from Apache Derby to another supported database, migrating your server, installing add-ons, and more.
      - Creating scripts and instructions
        The Configuration Wizard creates multiple files to help you complete your configuration objectives in a three-step process (Answer Questions, Customize Values, and Configure). When you select an option to customize for a specific configuration scenario, you provide information about your environment. Instructions, scripts, and helper files with updated property values are created to guide you in completing your configuration goal. You can run your configuration in real time or you can save your settings to use on another server.
      - Configuration Wizard runtime properties
        The Configuration wizard reads a properties file at startup. You can change these values and restart the wizard to control runtime behaviors.
      - Running the Configuration Wizard silently
        You can run the Configuration Wizard silently if you have multiple deployments or if you want to develop a common deployment template.
      - Installing or uninstalling the Configuration Wizard
        The configuration wizard is installed by default when you install HCL Digital Experience. As an alternative to using the default installation, you can install the Configuration Wizard on another server that already has IBM WebSphere Application Server installed.
    - Setting up a stand-alone server
      Use the Configuration Wizard to set up a stand-alone server. A stand-alone server is useful for different environments, such as a content authoring environment, test environment, and more.
    - Setting up a cluster
      Use the Configuration Wizard to set up either a dynamic or static horizontal cluster.
    - Tune your environment
      Tuning the servers is important to the performance of your environment. By default, HCL Digital Experience is not tuned for a production environment. Therefore, to ensure optimal performance review and complete the steps in the HCL Digital Experience Tuning Guide. If a tuning guide is not available for the current release, use the tuning guide from the previous product version.
    - Web servers
      HCL Digital Experience uses the internal HTTP transport within IBM WebSphere Application Server to handle requests. However, because WebSphere Application Server also supports the use of an external web server, you can access HCL Portal from your web server. You can use a local web server on the same server as HCL Portal or you can use a remote web server on a different server. A remote web server is typical for a production environment or other high-traffic configuration and is also typically placed in DMZ outside a firewall to protect portal ports.
    - HCL Portal
      First, finish your HCL Digital Experience deployment with the Configuration Wizard. Then, you can configure your environment further. For example, you can tune your servers to improve performance. You can change the default context root.
    - Database Management Systems
      Configure the connection between HCL Digital Experience and your database management system. The Database Transfer configuration option in the Configuration Wizard assigns users and permissions, creates databases, obtains support for database collation, and transfers your database.
    - User registry
      User information is stored in your user registry. You can enable LDAP referrals, configure HCL Digital Experience to use dynamic groups, update your user registry, or delete your user registry configurations.
    - Search
      You use Portal Search to search for text that is displayed in websites that are created by HCL Web Content Manager.
  - Reference
    View information that can help you use, including directory conventions, terms of use, trademarks, a glossary, and more.
- HCL Digital Experience 8.5
  Learn how to install, configure, troubleshoot, maintain, and use Version 8.5 of HCL Web Content Manager and HCL Portal Server, Enable, and Extend.

Accessing the Configuration Wizard | HCL Digital Experience

The home page of the Configuration Wizard provides access to common configuration tasks. Supported tasks include setting up a stand-alone server, setting up a cluster, transferring from Apache Derby to another supported database, migrating your server, installing add-ons, and more.

About this task

Click Back and Next to move back or forward in the Configuration Wizard.

Procedure

To get the latest updates for the wizard, apply the most recent Combined Cumulative Fix. For more information about applying the latest fix pack, see HCL Portal and Web Content Manager Combined Cumulative Fix strategy.
Note: Skip this step, if you have the most recent fix pack applied.
Optional: Restart server1 to ensure that the Configuration Wizard uses the updated environment variables. Go to AppServer_home/profiles/cw_profile/bin and stop the server:
- AIX® HP-UX Linux™ Solaris: ./stopServer.sh server1 -username username -password password
- IBM® i: stopServer cw_profile -username username -password password
- Windows™: stopServer.bat server1 -username username -password password
- z/OS®: ./stopServer.sh server1 -username username -password password
Then, start the server:
- AIX® HP-UX Linux™ Solaris: ./startServer.sh server1
- IBM® i: startServer cw_profile
- Windows™: startServer.bat server1
- z/OS®: ./startServer.sh server1
Access the Configuration Wizard. Go to http://your_server:10200/hcl/wizard.

Note: If working with HCL Digital Experience 8.5 or 9 software level prior to CF18, the wizard address will be: http://your_server:10200/ibm/wizard. After installing CF18, the configuration wizard will automatically be adjusted to http://your_server:10200/hcl/wizard.

Restriction: There is a known issue with Chrome version 45.x and the Configuration Wizard. If you are experiencing difficulties, use a different browser when you access the wizard.
Log in to the Configuration Wizard with the administrative ID for the configuration wizard profile, cw_profile.

Note: The wizard user interface might not be available in all languages. If the language is not currently supported, you might see the English version.