Requirement
To create a portal, you must first have a database installed.
The following instructions assume that you are using PostgreSQL.
You can create a portal on the Linux server using a shell script.
The following describes how you can do this as "root."
Create a portal as the root user
Run the following command to create a portal using the terminal:
root@linux:/opt/intrexx/bin/linux# ./buildportal.sh -t
The routine for creating a portal is started.
INFO 2021-08-10T11:17:50.564 - de.uplanet.lucy.portalimport.local.PortalBuilderUtility[main]
PortalBuilderUtility
General Information
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Portal Name: Portal Name: exampleportal
Portal directory [/opt/intrexx/org/exampleportal]:
Path to the portal template [/opt/intrexx/orgtempl/blank]:
Portal Database
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Please select the type of portal database.
1) MariaDB
2) Microsoft SQL Server
3) Oracle
4) PostgreSQL
Database type (1–4): 4
PostgreSQL
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Would you like to create a new database or use an existing one?
1) Create
2) Use existing ones
Database Import Mode (1 - 2): 1
Encoding [UTF-8]:
Host [localhost]:
Port [5432]:
Using SSL Transport Encryption
1) No SSL
2) SSL without certificate validation
3) SSL with certificate validation
SSL [1–3): 1
Database name [ixexampleportal]:
Login: postgres
Password:
Embedded Web Server
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Host [localhost]: 1
Port [1337]:
Context ($ = none) []: $
Reverse Proxy / Load Balancer
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Select the reverse proxy or load balancer you want to use.
1) none
2) nginx
Reverse Proxy (1 - 2) [1]: 2
NGINX Reverse Proxy
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Backend Host [localhost]:
Backend port [1337]:
NGINX configuration file (empty = do not create one):
Communication
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REST communication port [8101]:11
Log directory
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Specify a path to the log directory.
Select "Default" if you want to use the log directory within the portal directory.
1) Default
2) Absolute path
Log directory (1 - 2): 1
Solr Configuration
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Solr URL [http://127.0.0.1:8983/solr]:
Use authentication [yes]?
Solr user's password
Would you like to save the settings to a configuration file [y,n]? n
1) Create a database
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* 100% Successfully Completed
2) Write data to the database
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* 100% Successfully Completed
3) Copy files
...
INFO 2021-08-10T11:22:15.018 - de.uplanet.lucy.server.patch.PatchController[Thread-1]
Finished the portal patch. The exit code was 0.
* 100% Successfully Completed
7) Closing Activities
...
Starting the upixp_exampleportal service
* 100% Successfully Completed
No further action is required.
After creating the portal
Services Provided
After installation, the following two services will be available:
-
examplepotal [Portal Name]
Shell script: upixexampleportal [upixNameOfThePortal]
The portal service starts automatically after the portal is created.
The portal service belongs to root.
johndoe@linux:/opt/intrexx/bin/linux# ls -la /etc/systemd/system/upix*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 316 Aug 10 11:19/etc/systemd/system/upixp_exampleportal.service
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 307 Aug 6 12:45 /etc/systemd/system/upixsolr.service
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 311 Aug 6 12:45 /etc/systemd/system/upixsupervisor.service
Files
After creating a portal, the files belong to root.
org directory
johndoe@linux:/opt/intrexx/org$ ls -al
12 in total
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Aug 11 3:39 p.m. .
drwxr-xr-x 25 root root 4096 Aug 10 18:29 ..
drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4096 Aug 11 3:39 p.m. exampleportal
Portal Directory
johndoe@linux:/opt/intrexx/org/exampleportal# ls -la
48 in total
drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4096 Aug 11 3:39 p.m. .
drwxr-xr-x 3 intrexx intrexx 4096 Aug 11 3:39 PM ..
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Aug 11 3:39 p.m. external
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 790 Aug 11 3:39 p.m. files.xml
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Aug 11 3:39 p.m. groovy
drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 4096 Aug 11 3:39 p.m. internal
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 11 3:39 p.m. lib
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Aug 11 3:41 p.m. log
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 Aug 11 3:39 p.m. path
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 11 3:39 p.m. portalinformation
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Aug 11 15:39 tomcat
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Aug 11 3:39 p.m. tomcatRest
Displaying the Portal in Portal Manager
You can now connect to the newly created portal in Intrexx Portal Manager.
