Today I wanted to try out the Graphical setup package for XP Single when installing Sitecore 9.3. I created a VM, that only has the following installed on it.
- Visual Studio 2019
- Visual Studio Code
- Sql Server 2017
- Sql Server Management Studio 18.4
If you navigate to this page: https://dev.sitecore.net/Downloads/Sitecore_Experience_Platform/93/Sitecore_Experience_Platform_93_Initial_Release.aspx you will get several options for installing Sitecore. We are going to choose this:
When it download, extract the contents of the zip.
This zip provides you with everything you need to install Sitecore 9.3. Double clicking “Setup” starts the installer. Let’s run through the steps of the installer.
After clicking “Start’ we get this screen:
I don’t have those items so I will click “Install”. We get progress updates.
The installation process succeeded and if you click on the “Log” link you can get to the logs of what just happened.
Since this was just for the prerequisites, only that log files has any information. It details out all that it installed. Very nice.
Let’s move on to the next step now. Install the Solr search service. The form asks you to provide the port, the windows service and path prefix, and the install path. I wasn’t sure which version of solr is required for 9.3 so I check here. https://kb.sitecore.net/articles/227897 It looks like 8.1.1 so let’s fill out the form and click “Install”.
Ok, that was successful. Again, the log has the details of what happened.
Let’s verify that solr is working. Go to “https://localhost:8983”. Looks good!
Clicking next, we move onto Sitecore settings. In this section, we are asked to provide the Installation/solution prefix, the Sitecore admin password, and Sitecore license file.
Click “Next’ and enter in your Sql Server settings.
Click “Next” to verify your solr settings.
I had to double check the solr windows service name to see if that was correct and it was. After looking at the setup.exe.config, it looks like the field above of “Solr Windows Service Name” gets added to the front of a hard coded “solr-8.1.1” which results in the solr-8.1.1solr8.1.1. You can either leave that blank or modify the config file.
Click next to be presented with optional modules to install. Currently, I have an options for SXA, so let’s install that too.
Click “Next” gives us a summary of what we’ve provided.
Click “Next” to have the installer validate the requirements.
Success!
Clicking “Next” to get to the final page. Then click “Launch Sitecore” to get to the site.
