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Installing vFabric Web Server 5
VMware vFabric Suite 5.1 5
3. Installing vFabric Web Server
vFabric Web Server has several options for installation and setup. Installation options vary according to whether you install
Web Server standalone or as part of vFabric Suite installation and whether your operating system is Unix, Windows, or another
supported platform.
Subtopics
Installation Note for vFabric Suite Customers
Available Distribution Packages
RHEL: Install vFabric Web Server from the VMware Package Repository
Unix: Install vFabric Web Server from a Self-Extracting ZIP
Windows: Install vFabric Web Server from a Self-Extracting ZIP File
Activate a local vFabric Web Server License
Description of the vFabric Web Server Installation
Upgrading vFabric Web Server
Installation Note for vFabric Suite Customers
If you will be installing vFabric Web Server as part of a vFabric Suite Standard package, complete the procedures for installing
vFabric License Server and activating vFabric Suite licenses in Getting Started with vFabric Suite. You may also want to read the
other vFabric licensing sections in that guide, to understand how licensing works with vFabric Suite.
Available Distribution Packages
vFabric Web Server is split into the following two distribution packages to simplify the installation and deployment to your
datacenter:
• vfabric-web-server: Base package entirely sufficient for all production environment.
• vfabric-web-server-devel: Supplemental package that developers can use to compile and link http modules with the
same headers and libraries as httpd itself using the httpd-2.2/bin/apxs tool. This package requires that you also install
the base package.
RHEL: Install vFabric Web Server from the VMware RPM Repository
When installing vFabric Web Server on a Red Hat Linux Enterprise (RHEL) computer , it is recommended that you use yum
from the VMware RPM repository.
Prerequisites
• Install the vFabric repository RPMs, which makes it easy for you to browse the vFabric RPMs (in particular the Web Server
RPMs) available in the VMware repositories.
There are two vFabric repositories, both located on repo.vmware.com:
• vfabric-5.1-repo-5.1: Contains the vFabric component RPMs that are certified for vFabric 5.1.
• vfabric-all-repo: Contains additional vFabric component RPMs that have released after vFabric Suite 5.1 released,
such as maintenance releases of components. These RPMs may not necessarily be certified to work with those of vFabric