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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.
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.
Roadmaps to deploy your system
Review the roadmaps to understand the common deployment, configuration, migration, and integration patterns.
Roadmaps for Version 9.0 installation and deployment
The HCL Digital Experience installation and deployment roadmaps provide high-level instructions for setting up a stand-alone or clustered V9.0 environment.
Roadmaps for stand-alone servers
A stand-alone server topology is useful for many environments. While the underlying topology is similar for many environments, the configuration steps to achieve a desired environment varies.

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.
    - Planning to install HCL Digital Experience
      Before you install HCL Digital Experience in a production environment, you need to assess your hardware and software needs, possible database configurations, security options, and LDAP server options. Skipping this important step can lead to unexpected results and costly delays.
    - Roadmaps to deploy your system
      Review the roadmaps to understand the common deployment, configuration, migration, and integration patterns.
      - Roadmaps for Version 9.0 installation and deployment
        The HCL Digital Experience installation and deployment roadmaps provide high-level instructions for setting up a stand-alone or clustered V9.0 environment.
        Roadmaps for stand-alone servers
        A stand-alone server topology is useful for many environments. While the underlying topology is similar for many environments, the configuration steps to achieve a desired environment varies.
        Roadmap: Demonstration environment
        This roadmap is ideal for running product, feature, and application demonstrations. After the installation, you have an Apache Derby database and a default file-based repository. You might not need to make any additional changes to your demonstration environment. If you need to demonstrate a specific database or user registry, use the Stand-alone server roadmap.
        Roadmap: Portlet and theme development environment
        A portlet and theme development server is ideal to develop and test portlets and themes.
        Roadmap: Test or small production environment
        A stand-alone server topology is ideal for a test or small production environment. In this roadmap, the web server, database, and user registry software are distributed to different physical servers.
        Roadmap: Failover environment
        Set up your HCL Digital Experience environment as an idle standby configuration for failover. Your idle standby cluster server is not operational to service user transactions or to query workloads. The idle standby cluster server becomes active only if the primary node fails.
        Roadmaps for container-based deployment
        A container-based deployment offers the capability to place them on different physical or virtual machines, on premises or in the cloud. This flexibility allows more control in terms of workload management, as an example.
        Roadmaps for clusters
        Clusters topologies provide greater availability and capacity.
        Roadmaps for advanced configurations
        Multiple clusters and portal farms are advanced configurations.
        Roadmap: Web content servers
        A web content server is ideal to create presentation templates, content components, and other presentation elements of your website. In this roadmap, the web server, database, and user registry software are distributed to different physical servers.
      - Roadmap: Applying maintenance
        Portal maintenance is delivered through two mechanisms: individual fixes (iFixes) and combined cumulative fixes. iFixes are provided, when necessary, for severe or security-related bugs. Combined cumulative fixes are delivered on a regular schedule. They provide a mechanism to deliver fixes faster, improve existing features, deliver new features, update documentation, and provide new documentation on a frequent basis. To deliver continuous improvements for your digital experience software, it is recommended that you apply the latest Combined Cumulative Fix to your environment.
      - Roadmaps for migration
        Choose the appropriate migration roadmap for your environment.
      - Roadmaps for integration
        Choose the appropriate integration roadmaps for your environment.
      - Roadmap: Syndication
        Syndication is the tool that is used to replicate data from a web content library on one server to a web content library on another server. The relationship between a syndicator and a subscriber can be either a one-way or two-way relationship.
    - Roadmaps to create your website
      Review the roadmaps to understand how to create your website.
    - Installing and preparing the prerequisite software
      Before you install the digital experience software, make sure that the prerequisite software is installed and configured. Depending on your environment, you might already have the prerequisites, such as a database server and user registry. Verify that the prerequisite software is the correct version, has the required fix packs applied, and is configured to work with the digital experience software.
    - Installing HCL Digital Experience software
      HCL Digital Experience is designed to help create, manage, simplify, and integrate your processes into an engaging online experience. HCL Portal and HCL Web Content Manager are a part of the HCL Digital Experience.
  - 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.
  - 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.

Roadmaps for stand-alone servers

A stand-alone server topology is useful for many environments. While the underlying topology is similar for many environments, the configuration steps to achieve a desired environment varies.

Roadmaps for HCL Portal Express are also available in HCL Product Documentation. For HCL Portal Express roadmaps, see HCL Portal Express: Roadmaps for stand-alone servers.