Category Archives: howto

5 Steps to installing Portal 6.1.5 on Ubuntu 9.10

Posted on December 7, 2009 by Graham

Here’s how to install Portal 6.1.5 on Ubuntu 9.10 Continue reading →

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Creating a Virtualbox guest machine from a physical machine

Posted on September 16, 2009 by Graham

How to create a virtual machine from a physical machine using a Linux live CD and VirtualBox. Continue reading →

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How to get your own local copy of the Infocenter

Posted on July 1, 2009 by Graham

How to get your own local version of the WebSphere Portal infocenter, in case you can’t get to the website. Continue reading →

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How to solve CWWIM4520E on Portal 6.1

Posted on May 27, 2009 by Graham

How to solve EJPSG0015E, CWWIM4520E by remapping portal attributes to ldap ones. Continue reading →

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ERRORCODE=-4214, SQLSTATE=28000 from DB2 on Ubuntu

Posted on May 4, 2009 by Graham

Connection authorization failure occurred. Reason: Local security service non-retryable error. ERRORCODE=-4214, SQLSTATE=28000 is a common error when using DB2 on newer versions of Ubuntu. This post describes how to fix this problem. Continue reading →

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Getting WebSphere Portal to install on Ubuntu

Posted on May 4, 2009 by Graham

Portal 6.1 will not install on Ubuntu out of the box. Here’s how to fix it. Continue reading →

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Configuring WCM email actions with a local SMTP server

Posted on April 20, 2009 by Graham

Detailed post about how to set up WCM’s email actions with a local SMTP and POP3 server on the same machine as your Portal server. Continue reading →

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java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: /opt/WebSphere/AppServer/java/jre/bin/libawt.so: libXmu.so.6

Posted on April 1, 2009 by Graham

Graham looks at some additional Redhat packages that are required when you don’t install xorg on a Portal machine Continue reading →

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Can you tell me how to get, how to get to the Solaris boot prompt?

Posted on March 24, 2009 by Graham

Whenever I have to install Solaris (on SPARC), I never remember how to get it to boot from a cd.  Sparc machines have their own bios system, which comes up as a  this minimal, black on white serif-ey command prompt. … Continue reading →

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Checking the version of the Oracle JDBC driver jar

Posted on March 20, 2009 by Graham

How to check if you have the right version of the Oracle driver installed to use with WebSphere Portal. Two methods of checking this are discussed. Continue reading →

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