v7
Applies to Campaign Classic v7 only
on-premise & hybrid
Applies to on-premise and hybrid deployments only

Installing the server installing-the-server

Executing the installation program executing-the-installation-program

For a Windows 32 bit platform, install Adobe Campaign 32 bit. For a Windows 64 bit platform, install Adobe Campaign 64 bit.

The installation steps for the Adobe Campaign server are the following:

  1. Execute the file setup.exe.

  2. Select the installation type.

    Several installation types are available:

    • Installation of an application server : Install the Adobe Campaign application server and the client console.
    • Minimal installation (Network) : Installation of the client computer from the network. Only a limited number of DLLs will be installed on the computer, if necessary, and all the other components will be used from a network drive.
    • Installation of a client : Installation of the required components for the Adobe Campaign client.
    • Custom installation : The user chooses the elements to be installed.

    Select Installation of an application server, and go through the different steps as shown below:

  3. Select the installation directory:

  4. Click Finish to start the installation:

    The progress bar shows how far the installation is:

    Once the installation is complete, a message appears to let you know:

    note note
    NOTE
    Once the server installation is complete a reboot of the server is required to avoid possible network issue.

    Once the installation is complete, start Adobe Campaign to create the configuration files. Refer to First start-up of the server.

Summary installation testing summary-installation-testing

You can test the initial installation using the following command:

nlserver pdump

If Adobe Campaign is not started, the response is:

No task

First start-up of the server first-start-up-of-the-server

Once the installation test is complete, open a command prompt via the Start > Programs > Adobe Campaign menu and enter the following command:

nlserver web

The files in the installation directory are used to configure the Adobe Campaign server modules.

The following information is displayed:

15:30:12 >   Application server for Adobe Campaign Classic (7.X YY.R build XXX@SHA1) of DD/MM/YYYY
15:30:12 >   Web server start (pid=664, tid=4188)...
15:30:12 >   Creation of server configuration file '[INSTALL]bin..confserverConf.xml' server via '[INSTALL]bin..conffraserverConf.xml.sample
15:30:12 >   Creation of server configuration file '[INSTALL]bin..confconfig-default.xml' server via '[INSTALL]bin..confmodelsconfig-default.xml
15:30:12 >   Server started
15:30:12 >   Stop requested (pid=664)
15:30:12 >   Web server stop (pid=664, tid=4188)...

Press Ctrl+C to stop the process, then enter the following command:

nlserver start web

The following information is displayed:

12:17:21 >   Application server for Adobe Campaign Classic (7.X YY.R build XXX@SHA1) of DD/MM/YYYY
12:17:21 >   Start of the 'web@default' ('nlserver web -tracefile:web@default -instance:default -detach -tomcat -autorepair') task in a new process
12:17:21 >   Application server for Adobe Campaign Classic (7.X YY.R build XXX@SHA1) of DD/MM/YYYY
12:17:21 >   Web server start (pid=29188, tid=-1224824320)...
12:17:21 >   Generation of configuration changes '[INSTALL]bin..confserverConf.xml.diff' between '[INSTALL]bin..confserverConf.xml' and '[INSTALL]bin..conffraserverConf.xml.sample'
12:17:22 >   Tomcat started
12:17:22 >   Server started

To stop it, enter:

nlserver stop web

The following information is displayed:

12:18:31 >   Application server for Adobe Campaign Classic (7.X YY.R build XXX@SHA1) of DD/MM/YYYY
12:18:31 >   Stop requested for 'web@default' ('nlserver web -tracefile:web@default -instance:default -detach -tomcat -autorepair', pid=29188, tid=-1224824320)...
12:18:31 >   Stop requested (pid=29188)
12:18:31 >   Web server stopped (pid=29188, tid=-1224824320)...

Password for the internal identifier password-for-the-internal-identifier

The Adobe Campaign server defines a technical login called internal that has all rights on all instances. Just after installation the login does not have a password. It is mandatory to define one.

Learn more in this section.

Starting Adobe Campaign services starting-adobe-campaign-services

To start the Adobe Campaign services, you can use the service manager or enter the following at the command line (with the appropriate rights):

net start nlserver6

If you need to stop the Adobe Campaign processes later on, use the command:

net stop nlserver6

Installing LibreOffice installing-libreoffice

Download LibreOffice and follow the regular installation steps.

Add the following environment variable:

OOO_BASIS_INSTALL_DIR="C:\Program Files (x86)\LibreOffice 6\"
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