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Validating the Installation

After you have installed or upgraded Content Delivery, perform these steps to ensure everything is working correctly.

Before you begin

Procedure

  1. Browse to the Content Delivery home page at https://contentdelivery.lc.example.com/ContentDelivery (where lc refers to an example related to Content Delivery, and contentdelivery specifies it further as a delivery server).
    If you installed on a Windows Server, use another computer to browse to the Knowledge Center home page.
  2. If you are in a Content Delivery tool, click Home in the breadcrumb trail.
    The Content Delivery landing page appears.
  3. In the Administration Tools pane, click Manage Application.
    The Manage Application page appears.
  4. If this is a new installation, specify a password for the administrator user.
    1. Click Manage Users.
    2. Adjacent to admin user name, hover over the icons to find Change password and then click that icon.
    3. Enter a password, then reenter the password, and then click Save.
  5. Click System Status.
  6. Confirm that the file paths, operating system, and other status items are correct.
  7. Upload the sample data set and view the publication.
    See Testing with Sample Data
  8. Manually click in the TOC to ensure that all <topicref> elements work properly.