Difference between revisions of "Configuring the Application Server"

Revision as of 20:08, 21 September 2015

All backend services are enabled by default. But they will cause performance problems if they are running on the customer-facing application server, and errors will result if they are running on multiple servers, therefore the very first step after installing the platform is to disable all backend services that are not required on the current server, and to configure each server with the same connection-information for those services.
Learn more: Managing Backend Services
As described in Software Requirements#Required for Basic Platform Functionality:
- Configure an email server to enable email-based collaboration.
- To improve performance, install and configure memcached for caching.
- Add the Apache HTTP server to further improve performance.
As described in Software Requirements#Required for Additional Functionality:
- To allow PDFs to be installed from documents, install OpenOffice.
- To allow for Twitter searches and Collision Detection and Prevention, install HornetQ.
- To be able to email a chart or report, Install the Chart Handling Libraries.
Additionally:
- Enable One-Click Document Viewing.
- Add Multibyte Character Fonts for PDF printing.
- To enable Java Code Governors on Red Hat 6, carry out the Additional Installation Step for RedHat 6.

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-# All backend services are enabled by default. They will cause performance problems if running on the customer-facing application server, and errors will result if running on multiple servers, therefore ''the very first step'' after installing the platform is to ''disable all backend services that are not required on the current server'', and to configure each server with the same connection-information for those services.
+# All backend services are enabled by default. But they will cause performance problems if they are running on the customer-facing application server, and errors will result if they are running on multiple servers, therefore ''the very first step'' after installing the platform is to ''disable all backend services that are not required on the current server'', and to configure each server with the same connection-information for those services.
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