Weblogic 12c 12.2.1 installation in Oracle Red Hat Linux 6.7

Installation & Configuration Steps

• Verify Virtual Machine Details
  • Ensure you have the SSH root credentials to the VM
    • root@<HOST-NAME>
  • Verify HW details
    • $cat /proc/cpuinfo
    • $free -m
  • Verify OS details via following commands:
    
    • $cat /etc/oracle-release

      • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.7 (Santiago)

    • $cat /etc/redhat-release

      • Oracle Linux Server release 6.7

    • $uname -a

      • Linux <HOST-NAME> 3.8.13-44.1.1.el6uek.x86_64 #2 SMP Wed Sep 10 06:10:25 PDT 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

• Create weblogic user and group
  • $groupadd -g 1000 weblogic
  • $useradd -u 1100 -g weblogic weblogic
  • $passwd weblogic (give password as weblogic)
• Create weblogic installation directory
  • $mkdir /opt/oracle
  • $chown -R weblogic:weblogic /opt/oracle
  • $chmod -R 775 /opt/oracle
• Download Weblogic 12c (12.2.1) installable
  • Source: http://download.oracle.com/otn/nt/middleware/12c/1221/fmw_12.2.1.0.0_wls_quick_Disk1_1of1.zip
• Install Weblogic 12c
  • Verify Java 8 is installed
    • $which java
    • $java -version

      • Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_91)

• • Perform Silent installation of Weblogic 12c
    • Add the following entries into /home/weblogic/.bash_profile file:

      export MW_HOME=/opt/oracle/middleware
      export WLS_HOME="${MW_HOME}/wlserver"
      export WL_HOME="${WLS_HOME}"

      # Set to appropriate JAVA_HOME.
      export JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/jdk1.8.0_91
      export JAVA_OPTIONS="-Djava.security.egd=file:/dev/./urandom"

      PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin:$JAVA_HOME/bin
      export PATH

      
      
    • Switch to weblogic user

      • $su - weblogic

    • Create directory /opt/oracle

      • $mkdir /opt/oracle/middleware

    • Copy weblogic installer zip from /root to /opt/oracle folder and unpack it

    • Create response file "wls.rsp" ($vi wls.rsp) and put following entries:
      [ENGINE]
      Response File Version=1.0.0.0.0
      [GENERIC]
      ORACLE_HOME=/opt/oracle
      INSTALL_TYPE=WebLogic Server

    • Run the Quick Installer

      • $java -jar fmw.....jar ORACLE_HOME=/opt/oracle/middleware -silent -responseFile /opt/oracle/wls.rep

• Create Domain
  • Connect to machine via VNC Clinet
  • Run the domain creation script

    • $. /opt/oracle/middleware/oracle_common/common/bin/config.sh

    • Give the Domain path as /opt/oracle/middleware/user_projects/domains/MyDomain and select all default options

    • Provide Username password as "weblogic:weblogic"

• Start the Admin Server
  
  • Come back to SSH CLI mode on VM

  • $su - weblogic

  • $cd /opt/oracle/middleware/user_projects/domains/MyDomain

  • $nohup ./startWebLogic.sh &

  • Open web browser and hit the URL "http://<HOST-NAME>:7001/console/login/LoginForm.jsp" and enter credentials as "weblogic/weblogic"
  • Go to Enviornment -> Servers -> AdminServer -> General Tab -> Change Listen Port from 7001 to 7000.
  • Go to AdminServer -> Control Tab -> Stop the Server
  • Start the Server again: 

    • $cd /opt/oracle/middleware/user_projects/domains/MyDomain

    • $nohup ./startWebLogic.sh &

    • Open web browser and hit the URL "http://<HOST-NAME>:7000/console/login/LoginForm.jsp" and enter credentials as "weblogic/weblogic"
• Create Machines
  • Select from left tree "MyDomain -> Enviornment -> Machines" and click "New"
  • Provide name as "licremmt04" and Os as "Unix", and click "Next"
  • Select Type as "Plain", Address as "<HOST-NAME>", Port as "5556" and click "Finish"
• Create Servers
• Create Server: MyServer-1
  • Select from left tree "MyDomain -> Enviornment -> Servers" and click "New"
  • Provide Server name as "MyServer-1", Listen address as "<HOST-NAME>", Port as "8080", select "No, this is a stand-alone server.", and Click "Finish"
  • Navigate to the MyServer-1 management page by clicking the MyServer-1 name entry in the Summary of Servers table.
  • In the general tab, select "<HOST-NAME>" in the Machine drop-down box, disable "SSL Listen Port Enabled" and Click Save.
  • In the Server Start tab, ether the following information and click save
    • Java Home as "/usr/java/jdk1.8.0_91/"
    • Java Vendor as "Oracle"

    • Arguments as 

      -Xms1024m -Xmx3076m -Djava.library.path=/opt/oracle/middleware/wlserver/server/native/linux/x86_64/

• Start the Servers
• kill all running java processes using $killall java
• Make the Server to NodeManager communication non-SSL

  • $vi /opt/oracle/middleware/user_projects/domains/MyDomain/nodemanager/nodemanager.properties

    • Have change as: SecureListener=false

• Start the NodeManager
  • Set NodeManager Path:

    • $vi /opt/oracle/middleware/wlserver/server/bin/startNodeManager.sh

    • Set value: NODEMGR_HOME="${WL_HOME}/../user_projects/domains/MyDomain/nodemanager"

    • come out from vi editor

  • $nohup ./startNodeManager.sh &

• Start the AdminServer

  • $cd /opt/oracle/middleware/user_projects/domains/MyDomain

  • $nohup ./startWebLogic.sh &

• Start all Servers
• Open Web Browser and login to Admin Conole: http://<HOST-NAME>:7000/console/login/LoginForm.jsp
• Select from left tree "MyDomain -> Enviornment -> Servers"
• Select the following Server, go to its management page, click on "Control" tab and click on "Start" button at the bottom:
• MyServer-1

Thank You!