To Create a Portal

During Portal Server installation, a default portal named portal1 is created. You can also create a new portal server using the Create Portal wizard.

1. Login to the Portal Server Management Console.

2. Select the Portals tab.

3. Click the New Portal button to launch the wizard.

4. Provide a unique name for the Portal Server, for example, portal5.

5. Type a URI that enables end users to access the Portal Server, for example, /portal.

6. (Optional) Change the default web container instance properties.

   For information, see Creating a New Portal Using the CLI section in the Sun Java System Portal Server 7.2 Installation and Configuration Guide.

7. Verify the information you supplied.

8. Click Finish to create the new portal.

9. (Optional) View the log file to monitor the process.

   1. Login to the machine where portal is to be created.

   2. Run the psdadmin set-logger command.

      ./psadmin set-logger -u uid -f password -m component-type -O logger-name -L log-level

Equivalent psadmin Command

For more information on the psadmin create-portal subcommand, refer the psadmin create-portal in Sun Java System Portal Server 7.2 Command-Line Reference section in the Sun Java System Portal Server 7.2 Command-Line Reference guide.

Templates for webcontainer.properties for supported web containers are in the portal-install-dir/template directory.