IBM WebSphere Portal Server How To

How to enable tracing

Modify log.properties file (WebSphere/PortalServer/shared/app/config) and add the following at the very end(all in one line, no spaces): traceString=com.ibm.wps.sso.*=all=enabled:com.ibm.wps.services.authentication.*=all=enabled:com.ibm.wps.engine.commands.*=all=enabled

How to configure WPS for SSL

• Patch

Y:\WebSphere\PortalServer\shared\app\config\services\ConfigService.properties

• Restart WebSphere_portal
• Login into wps over http and confirm it forwards to https after logging in

How to enable JSP reloading

Change

reloadingEnabled="true" 

in

/u01/wp51/WebSphere/AppServer/config/cells/x01Network/applications/wps.ear/deployments/wps/wps.war/WEB-INF/ibm-web-ext.xmi

restart WPS

How to login into portal bypassing the login screen using GET

Portal 4.1:

http://my.portal.com/wps/portal/.cmd/LoginUserAuth?userid=wpsadmin&password=wpsadmi

portal 5.1:

http://server:port/wps/portal/cxml/04_SD9ePMtCP1I800I_KydQvyHFUBADPmuQy?userid=userID&password=password

How to restart WPS

In case bouncing the WPS service does not work

D:\WebSphere\AppServer\bin\stopServer WebSphere_Portal -username wpsbind -password ****
D:\WebSphere\AppServer\bin\startServer WebSphere_Portal -username wpsbind -password ****

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