LiveCycle ES Installation on Linux Server

LiveCycle ES Installation on Linux Server.


1. Hardware requirements for LiveCycle ES.

Please find below the hardware requirements and a link to obtain operating system related information.

1.1 Hardware:
Intel Pentium 3 or AMD x86/64 or equivalent 1GHz processor.
Minimum 1GB RAM
For installation disk space required 343MB minimum

1.2 Operating system:
Red hat Enterprise Linux ES and AS 4.0 (32bit architecture)
http://www.adobe.com/products/livecycle/pdfs/lces_update1_sysreqs.pdf


2. Download the Live Cycle ES from link below:

http://www.adobe.com/products/livecycle/dataservices/

3. Installation and set up process (More information can be obtained from: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/livecycle/8.2/lcds_installation.html):

3.1 Copy the Live Cycle ES (lcds261-lin.bin) to the root directory and run the following commands.

3.2 Lcds261-lin.bin is an executable bin file. Run the below command to start the installation.













3.3 Press enter to continue installation of LCDs.





3.4 Press ENTER till you encounter message “Do you accept the terms of this license agreement?”












3.5 Type “Y“ to accept the License agreement.




3.6 Type the LCDs serial number here to install enterprise version. Note: If serial number is skipped then it will only install a single CPU use license version.





3.7 You can specify path here if you want to install the LCDs in a different folder. It is recommended installing it in the default path. For installing in default path press the enter key.







3.8 Type 1 to install LCDs with tomcat and press enter to start the installation.




3.9 Here a screen will provide you the installation information such as the installation path, its version, etc. Press enter to continue the installation.









3.10 After installation is complete you will see details (refer screen below) to start the service and URL details. By default LCDs take port 8400. Note down the details and press enter to exit the installer.




4. To add the services in start up do the following.

vi /etc/rc.local

/opt/lcds/tomcat/bin/catalina.sh start

You need to open below ports in Linux iptables.
vi /etc/sysconfig/iptables

[0:0] -A INPUT -i eth0 -p tcp -m tcp --sport 8400 -j ACCEPT
[0:0] -A INPUT -i eth0 -p tcp -m tcp --dport 8400 -j ACCEPT
[0:0] -A INPUT -i eth0 -p tcp -m tcp --sport 2040 -j ACCEPT
[0:0] -A INPUT -i eth0 -p tcp -m tcp --dport 2040 -j ACCEPT
[0:0] -A INPUT -i eth0 -p tcp -m tcp --sport 2037 -j ACCEPT
[0:0] -A INPUT -i eth0 -p tcp -m tcp --dport 2037 -j ACCEPT

After finishing the installation open the below link in your favorite browser.

http://server ip address:8400