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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

  1. Log on to your target machine as an administrator-level user.
  2. On your target machine, stop your Web application server.
  3. From your target machine, access your Content Delivery download location for SDL Knowledge Center 2016 SP3.
  4. 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).
  5. In the Content Delivery (Install) step, select Next.
  6. 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.
  7. 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 lc refers to an example related to Content Delivery, and contentdelivery specifies it further as a delivery server), the context is ContentDelivery. In a content distribution model, the distribution server and all of its content delivery server must have the same context. Then select Next.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. In the Choose Port Number step, enter the port you want Content Delivery to use and select Next.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. In the Install Summary step, select Install. The installer installs the software.
  14. In the Installation Successful - Content Delivery step, note down the URL for Content Delivery and select Next.
  15. 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.