Chapter 3. Installation Overview
This chapter addresses what you need to do before starting your installation of WAF. A good overview of the actual install can be had from Chapter 1 Quick Start Installation. In general, what you are going to do for an installation is:
Decide on what type of installation, production (Part II Installation for Production) or development (Part III Installation for Development).
Install your OS.
Install the prerequisite software.
JDK.
RDBMS.
Servlet container.
Third-party packages.
Install WAF and other application packages such as Red Hat CMS.
Configure your installation.
3.1. Preparing System for Installation
This chapter addresses bringing the system online and preparing it to take on the WAF installation. The items in this chapter must be installed and configured before installing WAF. It is assumed that anyone installing WAF has the the following prerequisites:
Experience installing and configuring software on the selected target platform (i.e. operating system, database, servlet container, Web server, etc.) in the installation environment.
Access and licenses to any software needed for the process.
Sufficient familiarity with the other packages and infrastructure involved to troubleshoot installation, including familiarity with the way the selected target environment would interact with WAF (i.e. protocols, APIs, J2EE, etc.).
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For installation on Linux and other UNIX platforms, the installation tools assume that you are using a Bourne shell compatible shell (e.g. bash) through /bin/sh. |