IBM Rational Web Developer Version 6.0 Interim Fix 001 - Local installation instructions

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Contents

1.0 Overview
2.0 Installing the interim fix
   2.1 Installation prerequisites
   2.2 Creating policy.xml
   2.3 Configuring the Rational Product Updater to install the local interim fix
3.0 Creating a local mirror of the Rational Software Development Platform update server
   3.1 Downloading and extracting the files from the IBM update server
   3.2 Creating and updating site.xml files
   3.3 Creating and updating policy.xml files
   3.4 Installing the interim fix from the local mirror of the Rational Software Development Platform update server
4.0 Customer Support
5.0 Notices and trademarks

1.0 Overview

This document describes how to install a downloaded version of IBM® Rational® Web Developer Interim Fix 001, and how to create a local mirror of the Rational Software Development Platform update server.

2.0 Installing the interim fix

2.1 Installation prerequisites

Before you can install this interim fix, you must download the IBM Rational Product Updater Interim Fix 001. You can download the interim fix from ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/software/rationalsdp/updater/60/zips/rpu_ifix0001.zip.

If you disabled any product features through the Update Manager, or by modifying feature.xml files, you must re-enable them before you install this interim fix.

2.2 Creating policy.xml

  1. Open <temp_dir>\rad\, where <temp_dir> is the location of the extracted interim fix.
  2. Open policy_001.xml in a text editor.
  3. Edit the file to point to where you extracted the interim fix. For example, if you extracted the interim fix to C:\temp, your modified file should look like the following example:

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
    <update-policy>
    <url-map pattern="com.ibm.rational.application.developer.update" url="file://C:/temp/rad/60/update/site_001.xml"/>
    </update-policy>

  4. Save the updated file as policy.xml. Keep the original policy_001.xml file as a reference.
  5. Close your text editor.

2.3 Configuring the Rational Product Updater to install the local interim fix

Install the interim fix using the same user account used to installed IBM Rational Web Developer V6.0.

Restriction: On Windows® operating systems, this account requires Administer privileges. On Linux operating systems, you must use the root user account.

  1. Start the Rational Product Updater by clicking Start > Programs > IBM Rational > Rational Product Updater in Windows and Programming > Rational Product Updater in Linux.

    Important: If you start the Rational Product Updater from the product main menu, you must close IBM Rational Application Developer. IBM Rational Application Developer cannot be open when you install this interim fix.

  2. Click Preferences > Update Site.
  3. Type the path to the updated policy.xml file that you created in the previous section.
  4. Click OK.
  5. Click Find Updates.

    If your computer does not have Internet access, or cannot connect to the live IBM update server, a warning appears in the Rational Product Updater that states that other update sites are not available. You can ignore this warning if you installed the IBM Rational Product Updater Interim Fix 001.

    If your computer has Internet access and can connect to the live IBM update server, and if the Rational Product Updater requires an update, you are prompted to install it before you can continue. Click OK. The Rational Product Updater installs the update, restarts, and retrieves a list of available updates.

  6. Select Interim Fix 001 - EGL fix pack.

    Tip: To view the description for this update, click the update. The description is displayed in the Detailed information view.

  7. Click Install Updates.
  8. To accept the license agreement and continue the installation, click OK.

    Depending on the speed of your computer processor and the amount of RAM in your computer, the update might take an extended period of time to install.

    After the installation is complete, the Rational Product Updater lists the installed updates on the Installed Products tab.

  9. Close the Rational Product Updater.

3.0 Creating a local mirror of the Rational Software Development Platform update server

You should create a local mirror of the Rational Software Development Platform update server if the following conditions are true:

3.1 Downloading and extracting the files from the IBM update server

To create a local mirror of the Rational Software Development Platform update server, download the updates in the following table:
Update FTP location
Interim Fix 001 - IBM Rational Product Updater ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/software/rationalsdp/updater/60/zips/rpu_ifix0001.zip
Interim Fix 001 - IBM Rational Web Developer ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/software/rationalsdp/rwd/60/zips/rwd60_interim_fix001.zip

After you download the updates, extract the files to a target directory that will stage your local mirror of the Rational Software Development Platform update server.

Important: You must download the IBM Rational Product Updater Interim Fix 001.

Note: You can extract all the updates to the same target directory. The updates do not overwrite each other.

3.2 Creating and updating site.xml files

Each downloaded interim fix contains a site_<identifier>.xml file in the rwd\60\update\ directory, where <identifier> identifies the interim fix. The site_<identifier>.xml files for updates to the Rational Product Updater are located in the rpu\60\update\ directory.

For the update site, you must combine the <feature/> information from the site_<identifier>.xml files into a single site.xml file.

  1. Open each site_<identifier>.xml file in a text editor.
  2. Combine the information from each file into a new file named site.xml in the same directory. If the directory already contains a file named site.xml, copy the <feature/> information into the <site></site> section of that file.

  3. Note: The order of the feature information is irrelevant.

  4. Save and close the updated site.xml file. Keep the original site_&ltidentifier>.xml files for reference.
  5. Close your text editor.

3.3 Creating and updating policy.xml files

Each downloaded interim fix contains a rwd\policy_<identifier>.xml file that references site_<identifier>.xml. You must combine all of the policy_<identifier>.xml files into a single policy.xml file. After you create this file, you can use it for all product updates, and reference the site.xml file that you created in the previous section.

  1. Open rwd\policy_<identifier>.xml in a text editor.
  2. In the main directory of your mirror site, save the file as policy.xml.
  3. Edit the URL map to point to site.xml instead of site_<identifier>.xml. Ensure that you specify a universally accessible absolute path to site.xml. For example, if your mirror site is on a Web server named server1, your policy.xml file should look similar to the following example:

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
    <update-policy>
       <url-map pattern="com.ibm.rational.application.developer.update" url="http://server1/rational_updates/rwd/60/update/site.xml/">
    </update-policy>

  4. Create a URL map for the updates to the Rational Product Updater by typing a publicly accessible absolute path to the site.xml file.

    <url-map pattern="com.ibm.orca.product.updater" url="http://server1/rational_updates/rpu/60/update/site.xml"/>

  5. Save the policy.xml file.
  6. Close your text editor.

3.4 Installing the interim fix from the local mirror of the Rational Software Development Platform update server

After the local mirror of the Rational Software Development Platform update server is available for use, you can install the interim fix by using the following instructions.

Install the interim fix using the same user account used to installed IBM Rational Web Developer V6.0.

Restriction: On Windows operating systems, this account requires Administer privileges. On Linux operating systems, you must use the root user account.

  1. Start the Rational Product Updater by clicking Start > Programs > IBM Rational > Rational Product Updater in Windows and Programming > Rational Product Updater in Linux.

    Important: If you start the Rational Product Updater from the product main menu, you must close IBM Rational Application Developer. IBM Rational Application Developer cannot be open when you install this interim fix.

  2. Click Preferences > Update Site.
  3. Type the path to the policy.xml file that is in the main directory of the local mirror of the Rational Software Development Platform update server.
  4. Click OK.
  5. Click Find Updates.

    Tip: If the Rational Product Updater requires an update, you are prompted to install that update before continuing. Click OK to continue.

  6. Select Interim Fix 001 - EGL fix pack.

    Tip: To view the description for this update, click the update. The description is displayed in the Detailed information view.

  7. Click Install Updates.
  8. To accept the license agreement and continue the installation, click OK.

    Depending on the speed of your computer processor and the amount of RAM in your computer, the update might take an extended period of time to install.

    After the installation is complete, the Rational Product Updater lists the installed updates on the Installed Products tab.

  9. Close the Rational Product Updater.

4.0 Customer support

For product news, events, support, and other information, see the Rational Web Developer home page at
http://www-306.ibm.com/software/awdtools/developer/web/index.html.

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