Portal installation default configuration

The portal server needs two things one is database to hold portal configuration such as page, portlet,.. information. In addition to this portal server also requires a User Repository

In order to simplify the installation portal server will install following default configuration

Portal Server:

When you install the Portal Server, installer will also install Apache Derby database and the portal related data will get stored in the Apache Derby database.

Virtual Member manager is used for storing the user information. With basic install the user repository would be stored on the local file system.

Portal Express:

When you install the Portal Express, installer will also install DB2 V9.1 database and the portal related data will get stored in this dedicated instance of DB2 V9.1 database.

Virtual Member manager is used for storing the user information. With basic install the user repository would be stored on the local file system.


Once the portal server is installed you can use the Configuration program to move the database from local to production quality database such as Oracle, DB2.

You can also move the User Repository from Local File System based repository to LDAP repository.