Installing the MDEX Engine on Windows

You run the Oracle Commerce MDEX installation wizard to install the MDEX Engine. Accept all the installation defaults unless you must modify them.

To install the MDEX Engine on Windows:

  1. Download the MDEX Engine package from the Oracle Software Delivery Cloud.

  2. Extract the MDEX Engine package to a local directory. The name of the extracted installer file is in the following format: 

    OCmdex<release version>-<OS>_<buildnumber>.exe

    For more information about the format of MDEX installer file names, see Installer file names.

  3. Double-click the installer file to start the wizard.

  4. Select a locale, and click OK.

  5. In the Introduction screen, click Next to begin the installation process.

  6. Accept the terms of the license agreement and click Next.

  7. In the Choose Install Folder screen, select an installation location or accept the default C:\Endeca\MDEX\ installation directory and click Next.

    You should not install the MDEX Engine into a directory whose name contains spaces.

    The MDEX Engine requires approximately 770 MB of disk space. The installer requires approximately 600 MB of additional space on the system drive for temporary files. These files are cleared after the installation process completes.

    The wizard verifies the contents of the installation package and confirms that whether an existing 6.5.2 installation exists in the chosen Install Folder.

    Note

    A warning message is displayed if the installer identifies an existing 6.5.2 installation in the chosen Install Folder. Choosing to proceed with the installation will overwrite the existing installation.

  8. In the Pre-Installation Summary screen, review the settings you have selected and click Install.

  9. In the Install Complete screen, click Done to exit the wizard.

If you intend to run MDEX Engine applications or tools from the command line, without using the EAC, run the batch file mdex_setup.bat after you install the MDEX Engine. You must run this script from a Windows Command Prompt, not a PowerShell Console.

The MDEX Engine installer creates this batch file in the target directory. For example, if you installed to the default location, this file is located at C:\Endeca\MDEX\<version>\mdex_setup.bat.

The batch file sets up the environment variable ENDECA_MDEX_ROOT that the MDEX Engine uses and that points to C:\Endeca\MDEX\<version> . The script also adds the utilities directory and the MDEX Engine binaries to the search path.

The script is optional and provided as a convenience. Note that it only sets the variables for the current user in the current context. Optionally, you can manually set the environment variables as global environment variables.

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