Running the Content Delivery non-bundled installer for Windows
Run the non-bundled installer for Windows if you are installing or upgrading on a Microsoft Windows system, and you have a Web application server of your own set up.
Before you begin
Procedure
- Log on to your target machine as an administrator-level user.
- On your target machine, stop your Web application server.
- From your target machine, access your Content Delivery download location for SDL Knowledge Center 2016 SP3.
- Download and run the executable called yyyymmdd.SDLKnowledgeCenter.xx.x.xxxx.x.ContentDelivery.Tomcat8.Windows.exe as an administrator (right-click the executable and from the context menu that opens, select Run as administrator).
- In the Content Delivery (Install) step, select Next.
- In the License Agreement step, read the license terms, confirm that you agree with them by selecting I accept the terms of the License Agreement, and select Next.
- In the Choose Web App Context step, specify the application context name, that is, the last part of the URL. For example, given the URL http://contentdelivery.lc.example.com/ContentDelivery (where
lcrefers to an example related to Content Delivery, andcontentdeliveryspecifies it further as a delivery server), the context isContentDelivery. In a content distribution model, the distribution server and all of its content delivery server must have the same context. Then select Next. - In the Choose Backup Schedule step, specify how often you would like SDL Knowledge Center to back up the Content Delivery database and select Next.
- In the Choose Install Folder step, change the displayed default path proposed in the step only if you have a critical reason to do so, then select Next.
- In the Choose Port Number step, enter the port you want Content Delivery to use and select Next.
- In the Choose Backup Schedule step, specify how often you would like SDL Knowledge Center to back up the Content Delivery database and select Next.
- In the Install License step, do one of the following:
- If you have a license file, select Yes to proceed to the Choose a License File step. In this step, locate your license file and select Next. The installer places the license in the folder C:\Program Files\XyEnterprise\SDL_License.
- If you do not yet have a license file, select No to continue with the installation. You can install a license file later, but until you do, you will not be able to work with Content Delivery.
- In the Install Summary step, select Install. The installer installs the software.
- In the Installation Successful - Content Delivery step, note down the URL for Content Delivery and select Next.
- In the Install Complete step, select Done to close the installer and save an installation log to the logs\ subfolder of your SDL Knowledge Center home folder.