Task 1: Deploy IdM on a web application server

Important This task is required for the standalone IdM only.

You can deploy the IdM service on Tomcat 7.x or 8.x.

Note The following steps use Tomcat as an example. Version 8.x is recommended.

To do this, follow these steps:

  1. Install JDK 1.8 or later .
  2. Install Tomcat 8.x.

    Caution The Tomcat installation path must not contain any white spaces.

  3. If using Tomcat 8.5 or later, perform the following steps:

    1. Open the <Tomcat>/conf/context.xml file in a text editor.
    2. Insert the following line inside the <Context> tag pair:

      <CookieProcessor className="org.apache.tomcat.util.http.LegacyCookieProcessor"/>
    3. Save the file.
  4. Deploy the IdM service.
    1. Copy the idm-service WAR file from the installation package to the <Tomcat>/webapps folder.
    2. Deploy the WAR file.