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Installing vFabric Web Server 7
VMware vFabric Suite 5.3 7
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 an RPM
Unix: Install vFabric Web Server from a Self-Extracting ZIP
Windows: Install vFabric Web Server from a Self-Extracting ZIP File
Activate a vFabric Web Server Local License
Description of the vFabric Web Server Installation
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 environments.
• 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 an RPM
VMware recommends that you install vFabric Web Server on a Red Hat Linux Enterprise (RHEL) computer by first installing
the VMware RPM repository and then using yum to perform the actual installation. See Install vFabric Web Server from the
VMware RPM Repository.
You can also download the RPM from the VMware Download page and install it on your RHEL computer using the rpm
command, as described in Install vFabric Web Server from a Downloaded RPM. This installation option is necessary if you are
installing a version of Web Server that is not yet certified for vFabric Suite, which means that it has not yet been added to the
VMware RPM repository.
Install vFabric Web Server from the VMware RPM Repository
VMware recommends that you install Web Server on RHEL computers using the VMware RPM repository.
Prerequisites
• Verify that your system meets the supported configurations and installation requirements. See Supported Configurations and
System Requirements.