Installing core features
Perform all the tasks in this section to install the core software components of SDL Web.
- Performing a sample installation of SDL Web on a single machine
This installation guide runs you through a sample installation of the core components of SDL Web on one machine, including the add-on product SDL Digital Experience Accelerator (DXA for short), which includes a sample Web site for your to work with. The guide is designed to be as fast as possible: it should be possible to perform the entire procedure in one to two hours. To achieve this goal, the guide makes all implementation decisions for you, including your choice of operating system or database server. - Overview of the installation of SDL Web core software components
This section provides an overview of the installation procedure for installing and configuring the core software components of SDL Web so that you can create, manage and publish content. The implementation of some nonessential features involve further installation tasks, which are described elsewhere in the SDL Web documentation. Note that any installation concerns specifically related to scaling SDL Web are documented elsewhere in this deliverable. - Using PowerShell scripts
Use PowerShell scripts to install SDL Web databases and SDL Web software components. This section provides general prerequisites for the machines on which you run PowerShell scripts, and specific prerequisites for database scripts. - Hardware prerequisites
Guidelines on selecting the correct hardware for your SDL Web implementation. The platform supports basic, single-machine implementations and elaborate, scaled-out implementations, each with different hardware requirements. - Creating the Content Manager database
The Content Manager requires a database to store your content. - Creating the Topology Manager database
Topology Manager Server requires a Topology Manager database. Use a PowerShell script to create a Microsoft SQL Server or Oracle database. (The prerequisites for a Topology Manager database are identical to those of a Content Manager database.) - Installing the Content Manager server and Topology Manager
Install the Content Manager server and Topology Manager using the installer so that users can create, manage and assemble content. A default installation of this software component not only installs the Topology Manager and the Content Manager core, but also the server-side software for various clients, nonessential features and extension points. Note that many such installed items require additional configuration or implementation. - Creating Content Delivery databases
A core installation of SDL Web requires you to create a number of Content Delivery databases. - Installing the Content Delivery core
The Content Delivery core consists of Roles: features that work with content published from Content Manager. This section explains how to install each Role separately, but you can also combine Roles with each other, or with existing Web applications. A core installation only requires some of these Roles to be installed. - Installing core Content Manager clients
For a basic SDL Web installation, install the Content Manager Explorer to manage your content; Template Builder, .NET assembly templating, and Dreamweaver templating to develop templates; and the Experience Manager to edit content. - Setting up publishing
Set up publishing to generate publishable content in Content Manager and transfer the resulting content to a Web site. To publish to a staging site on which your users edit content using Experience Manager, set up publishing for Experience Manager.