Skip to content

Creating the differential release

To update your Portal Application Archive (PAA) file, you must create a differential release from your source server.

  1. Develop a release on the staging server. As part of this step, you might have non-managed pages, portlets, themes, skins, and other items.

    Tip

    Use Syndication to move HCL Web Content Manager content to your production servers.

  2. Open a command line and change to the wp_profile_root/ConfigEngine directory.

  3. Run the following command to create a Portal Application Archive (PAA) file for your differential release, including PAA files for all of your virtual portals. Go to Parameters to customize the release for parameters to customize your build-initial-release-paa task.

    • AIX® and Linux™:

      ./ConfigEngine.sh build-initial-release-paa -DdestPAADir=directory\_to\_store\_PAA -DpreviousPAA=initial\_PAA -DWasPassword=password -DPortalAdminPwd=password

    • Windows™:

      ConfigEngine.bat build-initial-release-paa -DdestPAADir=directory\_to\_store\_PAA -DpreviousPAA=initial\_PAA -DWasPassword=password -DPortalAdminPwd=password

    Important

    The directory that you enter for the destPAADir parameter must be an existing directory.

    You can add the following parameters to customize the build-initial-release-paa task.

    • javaoption

      Add this parameter if you are staging a large set of data. For example, add this string to your command, -javaoption -Xmx2048M. Depending on your system and the amount of data, the -Xmx value might be higher. Use 2048M as a starting value.

    • sharedAppResourcesRootDir

      The directory for .jar files, classes, and compressed files that are then stored in the shared/app directory.

    • sharedExtResourcesRootDir

      The directory for .jar files, classes, and compressed files that are then stored in the shared/ext directory.

    • appsToExtract

      A comma-separated list of applications to extract from the source environment. For example, you might extract the wps_theme,iehs,dojo_resources files. They would then be packaged in the PAA file.

    • exportWebDavTheme

      Enter a value of true to download and include the themes.zip file from WebDAV.

Deploy your differential release on the production servers.

Related information