Tagged: Solr

Quickly Setup Sitecore 10.3 XM with SIA

The latest version Sitecore 10.3, is packed with new features and enhancements that make it easier than ever to manage your digital content and deliver personalized experiences to your customers.

If you’re looking to install Sitecore 10.3 XM, one of the easiest ways to do it is by using the Sitecore Install Assistant (SIA). In this blog post, let’s walk through the steps to install Sitecore 10.3

Prerequisites:

A Windows machine with a minimum of 16GB of RAM
Microsoft SQL Server 2017 or later
IIS 10 or later
.NET Framework 4.8 or later
Microsoft PowerShell 5.1 or later

Preparation:

Download the installation package (Graphical setup package XM scaled) from here.

Installation:

Extract the downloaded zip file

Right-click on the Setup.exe and execute in Administrator mode

Install the prerequisites

Install Solr 8.11.2 by entering the Port, Windows service path prefix, and Install path

Note: Make sure the port number differs from earlier Solr-installed versions. Check out my blog to discover which processes are using which ports – https://madhuanbalagan.com/sitecore-10-sif-installation-roadblocks

Solr installation is successful!

Fill out the Site prefix, admin password(going with b, so easy to remember), and choose the Sitecore license file

Fill out the SQL server Instance name, admin username, and password.

It auto-fills Solr URL, System root, and Windows service name

Note: Navigate to Solr URL and ensure it’s running as expected

Select the optional module if you plan to create a Headless SXA site

Review the summary to make sure the settings are correct

The Installation wizard in SIA validates all the settings before starting the install

Installation takes around 10-15 minutes (you can get a coffee!). If it errors out, check out the log.

Yayy! It’s successfully installed. Is it easy to install with SIA? It’s indeed a great tool!

Let’s log in and explore!

Roadblocks:

Error # 1: Solr access to the path denied

Solr installation failed with error – Access to the path ‘C:\Users\MANBAL~1\AppData\Local\Temp\solr-8.11.2\server’ is denied.

Resolution:

I wasn’t running at the setup.exe in Admin mode. Ran in Admin mode (restarted the machine just in case) fixed the issue.

Error # 2: Unable to create core index

Error CREATEing SolrCore Unable to create core [wc10.3.xm.local_core_index] Caused by: Can’t find resource ‘solrconfig.xml’ in the classpath or ‘C:\Solr\Solr.8.11.2solr-8.11.2\server\solr\sc10.3.xm.local_core_index’

Resolution:

Do not use the same port used for the earlier installation. For some reason, it doesn’t work. Always use the new port and new Solr instance name.

Now that we installed Sitecore 10.3 XM, I’ll be installing Sitecore Headless Rendering (previously known as the JSS module) in my next blog post.

Hope this helps. Happy Sitecoring!

April 5, 2023

SIF / Sitecore

Sitecore 10 SIF Installation Roadblocks

Sitecore 10 was out a couple of months back. I installed it using SIF, hit a couple of roadblocks while installing and sharing the resolutions that helped resolve the issues.

If you haven’t installed Sitecore 10, here are some blogs that help you install.

Sitecore 10 using SIF: https://scorewow.wordpress.com/2020/08/05/install-sitecore-10-in-10-using-sif/

Sitecore 10 using SIA: https://madhuanbalagan.com/installing-sitecore-10-using-sia

Error # 1: Solr Port Issue

I have multiple Solr services running for different versions of Sitecore and here is the error I got while installing Sitecore 10.

“Port 8984 is already being used by another process. Please choose a different port”.

Run services.msc to check how many Solr’s are running on the machine.

Resolution:

If you have multiple instances of Solr running and you don’t know what port, it’s associated with. Here is a quick way to get the process name and kill if it’s is no longer needed.

Find which process using Solr port

Get-Process -Id (Get-NetTCPConnection -LocalPort $portNumber).OwningProcess

Also when installing the Solr, you can add the Port Name and Sitecore Version number or any information in the Description of Details tab.

This is life saver, do not need to worry about which Solr maps which port in the future!

Error # 2: SQL User Issue

“msdeploy.exe : Error: .Net SqlClient Data Provider: Msg 12809, Level 16, State 1, Line 5 You must remove all users with password before setting the containment property to NONE. At C:\ProgramFiles\WindowsPowerShell\Modules\SitecoreInstallFramework\2.2.0\Public\Tasks\Invoke-CommandTask.ps1:31 char:13”

Resolution:

For some reason, the SC10 uninstall did not remove all the variables for failed instances. I removed the ‘sc10_CollectionUser’ in local DB users, fixed the issue.

Error # 3: Credential Issue

“Install-SitecoreConfiguration: A parameter cannot be found that matches parameter name ‘Credential’. This error might have been caused by applying the default parameter binding. You can disable the default parameter binding in

$PSDefaultParameterValues by setting $PSDefaultParameterValues[“Disabled”] to be $true, and then trying again. The following default parameters were successfully bound for this cmdlet when the error occurred: -Debug -WarningAction

-Verbose -InformationAction -ErrorAction

At C:\ResourceFiles\XP0-SingleDeveloper.ps1:77 char:1

+ Install-SitecoreConfiguration @singleDeveloperParams *>&1 | Tee-Objec …

+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [Write-Error], WriteErrorException

+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.WriteErrorException,Install-SitecoreConfiguration”

Resolution:

The SqlServer module wasn’t installed by default, so I had to do it manually.

Ran this on Powershell command fixed the issue.

Install-Module -Name SqlServer -AllowClobber

Hope this helps someone. Any issues, let me know in the comments section.

Happy Sitecoring!

October 8, 2020

Sitecore

Install Sitecore 9.3 (using SIA) quickly in 20 minutes!

I’m participating in Sitecore Hackathon 2020 for the second time. One of the requirement is to have sitecore 9.3 installed on your machine except for commerce . I want to share my experience how i quickly installed Sitecore 9.3 using SIA(Sitecore Install Assistant) in 20 minutes!

Note: No need install any prerequisites(includes Solr) manually, SIA will take care of it.

Preparation:

Download installation package (Graphical setup package XP Single) from here.

Installation:

Extract the file zip file downloaded and click on Setup.exe

Install the prerequisites if needed.

Install Solr 811 by filling Port, Windows service path prefix and Install path and Install.

Note: Make sure the port number is different from earlier versions of Solr installed.

Fill out site prefix, admin password(going with b, so easy to remember) and license file path.

Fill out SQL server instance name, admin username and password.

Fill out the Solr URL, System root and Windows service name

Note: Go to Solr URL to make sure it’s running successfully.

Select optional module SXA if you need. I’m going for it, time to explore SXA! Would be nice if Horizon is listed here.

Review the summary to make sure the settings are correct.

SIA validates to make sure the files look good.

Install. This takes around 10 minutes (you can get a coffee!). If it errors out, check out the log.

Yayy!! It’s installed. Is it easy to install with SIA? It’s indeed a great tool!

Check out the release notes for what’s new in Sitecore 9.3 here

Happy Sitecoring!

January 26, 2020

Sitecore

Install Sitecore 9.1 quickly in 5 easy steps

I’m participating in Sitecore Hackathon for the first time this year. One of the requirement is to have sitecore 9.1(Initial version) installed on your machine. So I want to share my experience how i quickly installed Sitecore 9.1 using SIF on developer machine in 5 easy steps. This post includes the prerequisites, preparation and installation.

Prerequisites:

OS: Windows 10, Windows Server 2016
DB:
- Microsoft SQL Server 2017 or 2016 SP2 – Supports the XM database and is the required for the xDB
- Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Sp2 – Only supports XM databases and does not support the xDB
- MongoDB Server 3.6.6 – This is required if you are going to use MongoDB for the Collection database or as a Session State Provider
IIS 10
. NET
- Sitecore XP 9.1.0 requires .NET Framework 4.7.1
- Sitecore Identity server requires .NET Core Runtime 2.1.3
- You must apply any available updates to the .NET Framework on every Sitecore installation
Search Indexing
- Solr 7.2.1 – Default search provider
- Azure Search – supported and recommended for Azure Cloud PaaS deployments only
- Lucene – Only supports content search and does not support xConnect.
Powershell 5.1 – for Installing SIF

Preparation:

Download installation package(XP Single) from here
Extract the zip file you just downloaded
Again extract this file – XP0 Configuration files 9.1.0 rev. 001564.zip

Copy your license.xml file (If you have enrolled for Hackathon, you should have received the file in email)

Now let’s begin the installation!

Step 1: Solr 7.2.1 Install

Check out Jeremy Davis’s low effort Solr installs. It’s pretty cool! https://jermdavis.wordpress.com/2017/10/30/low-effort-solr-installs/

If you want to take traditional approach(Install as service using NSSM tool), here are the steps

Download Solr from here
Install as service using NSSM tool

It opens the NSSM Service Installer like below. Fill out the fields.

Note: If you already another version of solr running, make sure to give different port name.

Solr 5 running as a service on Microsoft Windows

Step 2: Install SIF

Run the following scripts in Powershell as administrator.

Register-PSRepository -Name SitecoreGallery -SourceLocation https://sitecore.myget.org/F/sc-powershell/api/v2;
Install-Module SitecoreInstallFramework;
Install-Module SitecoreFundamentals;
Update-Module SitecoreInstallFramework;
Update-Module SitecoreFundamentals;
Import-Module SitecoreFundamentals -Force;
Import-Module SitecoreInstallFramework -Force;

Step 3: Update config files

Update the following files in the folder with the exact information – solr path, solr service name, configsets path, instance name for sitecore, SQL instance name and login credentials.