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Installing vFabric Web Server 7
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3. Enter y at the prompt to begin the actual installation.
When the installation process finishes, you will see a Complete! message at the end. Check the output of the command to
ensure that the installation was successful.
The yum command:
• Installs vFabric Web Server into the /opt/vmware/vfabric-web-server directory.
• Sets the owner of all directories and files under /opt/vmware/vfabric-web-server to root.
What to do next
• If you installed Web Server standalone, activate a local Web Server license as described in Activate a local vFabric Web
Server License.
If you installed Web Server as part of vFabric Suite, then you should have already activated a network license using the
vSphere client, as described Installation Note for vFabric Suite Customers.
• Read Description of the vFabric Web Server Installation for a brief tour of what was installed.
• Create and start using a vFabric Web Server as described in Creating and Using vFabric Web Server Instances.
Unix: Install vFabric Web Server from a Self-Extracting ZIP
You can install vFabric Web Server on Unix computers with a self-extracting ZIP file that you download from the VMware Web
site. Self-extracting zip files expand themselves, or you can use unzip if your platform supports it. Using unzip explicitly
enables you to specify options in addition to what is executed by default when the ZIP self-extracts.
Prerequisites
• Verify that your system meets the supported configurations and installation requirements. See Supported Configurations and
System Requirements.
• If you want to use unzip so you can specify additional options, but your platform does not support unzip, obtain an unzip
command.
• If your operating system is configured to support only 64-bit operation, an external unzip utility is required. Do not use the
jar utility to unpack these zip files, because the file system permissions will not be unpacked correctly.
• Be sure you have installed Perl on your computer, and that it is at least version 5.8. Additionally, you cannot run the Perl script
(described in the procedure) in multibyte character encoding such as UTF8; this means you must unset the LANG or LC_***
variables to remove any UTF8 or other encodings.
Procedure
1. Log in as the root user on to the Unix computer on which you want to install vFabric Web Server.
2. Create the directory in which you will install vFabric Web Server. For example:
prompt# mkdir /opt/vmware
3. Download the appropriate vFabric Web Server self-extracting ZIP from the VMware Download Web site and place it in the
directory you created.
Be sure to choose the correct Unix operating system and chip architecture. For example, the file to install vFabric Web
Server on a 64-bit Linux platform is vfabric-web-server-version-x86_64-linux-glibc2.zip.sfx.
4. From your terminal window, change to the directory in which you downloaded the ZIP file: