Installing WebForms Server in an existing Java Web application

About this task

This section describes how to install WebForms Server in an existing Java Web application, specifically, an SDL Tridion Content Delivery Web application.

To add WebForms Server to the SDL Tridion Content Delivery Web application, do the following:

Procedure

  1. Locate the root directory of your SDL Tridion Content Delivery Web application.
  2. From the WebForms Server\java\war directory on the installation CD-ROM, extract the contents of the file webforms.war to the Content Delivery Web application, except for the following:
    • the file META-INF\MANIFEST.MF
    • any file already present on the target location; that is, when prompted to say overwrite, always refuse.
  3. Copy webforms_conf_sample.xml from the folder WebForms Server\config on the installation CD-ROM to the WEB-INF/classes directory. Change the name to webforms_conf.xml.
  4. Place the license file for SDL WebForms in the WEB-INF/classes directory.
  5. Restart the SDL Tridion Content Delivery Web application.

What to do next

Next, you must configure caching in the Storage Layer configuration file, as explained in Configuring caching.