Thursday, February 19, 2009

MacOSX Misc Info

Adding a user to a group
sudo /usr/bin/dscl . -append /groups/wheel GroupMembership username

Default JAVA_HOME

/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.5.0/Home/

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

WPS 6.1 Admin Console URL

http://hostname:10027/ibm/console

WPS 6.1 installation fails for hostname having a dash

WebSphere Portal 6.1 install doesn't like host name with underscore (i.e. TOR_P35314X of my machine), the installation just fails and terminates. This might not be the preferred solution, but I have the following dirty trick just get-around with the issue for now - hope this help others facing the same problem.


1. Since the installation instruction claims not to use localhost or loopback address, add a dummy host name without score into Windows' host file.

127.0.0.1 torp35314x torp35314x.mcl.mrshmc.com

2. Start WPS 6.1 install, during the installation, it comes to a page with defualted node name and host name. Change the defaulted host name to the dummy name above. The install will prompt error of the inputed hostname doesn't match it's looked up name, just ignore the error and click OK/next to force the install to accept the dummy name.

3. Continue the installation.