Adobe CQ installation Guide

System Requirements:

• 2GB free disk space in the deployment directory.
• 1.5GB memory (RAM); Please increase your head size.

Prerequisites:

• The Java Runtime Environment (JRE). Version 1.6.X is preferred.
• The CQ quickstart JAR file and license.properties file.

Note: JRE 1.7.X version is not supported.

Installing CQ Author and Publish instances using Quickstart:

Generally, when you set up Adobe CQ. You need to set up an Author and Publish instance.

Lets first see installation of Author instance:

Installing Author instance:

• Create a directory and name it author. (Generally we follow C:\cq\author ).
• Copy cq5-version.jar file into author directory.
• Rename cq5-version.jar to cq5-author-p4502.jar (recommended). If you need different port this can be set in the filename.
• Copy license.properties file into author directory.

Note: If you do not provide the license.properties file, CQ will redirect you to the Welcome screen when starting the application, where you can enter a valid license key. You will need to request a valid license key from Adobe if you do not yet have one.

• You can start CQ quickstart either by double clicking the jar file or by following command:

java -Xmx1024M -jar cq5-author-p4502.jar (32 bit machine)

Or

java -XX:MaxPermSize=256m -Xmx1024M -jar cq5-author-p4502.jar (64 bit)

• When the installation is completed, you are automatically presented with a new web browser window opening http://localhost:<port>/

Installing Publish instance:

• Create a directory and name it publish. (Generally we follow C:\cq\publish ).
• Copy cq5-version.jar file into author directory.
• Rename cq5-version.jar to cq5-author-p4503.jar (recommended). If you need different port this can be set in the filename.
• Copy license.properties file into author directory.

Note: If you do not provide the license.properties file, CQ will redirect you to the Welcome screen when starting the application, where you can enter a valid license key. You will need to request a valid license key from Adobe if you do not yet have one.

• You can start CQ quickstart either by double clicking the jar file or by following command:

java -Xmx1024M -jar cq5-author-p4503.jar (32 bit machine)

Or

java -XX:MaxPermSize=256m -Xmx1024M -jar cq5-author-p4503.jar (64 bit)

• When the installation is completed, you are automatically presented with a new web browser window opening http://localhost:<port>/ to Geometrixx page.

How to start and stop your CQ instance:

There is more than one way of starting or stopping your CQ instance:

Starting CQ Instance:

• You can start your CQ instance by double clicking on the quickstart jar as you did for installing CQ server.
• You can start your CQ instance by navigating to bin folder inside crx-quickstart folder (which is created after installation of CQ) and click on start.bat file.
• You can start your CQ instance by typing the above java command in command prompt.

Stopping CQ instance:

• If you have started the server by double-clicking on jar then click on off button on the startup window of CQ.
• If you have started your instance by command prompt or start.bat then press Ctrl+C.

Registering CQ as a Windows service:

To register your CQ instance as a service, follow the below steps:

• Go to your installation folder and navigate to “\crx-quickstart\opt\helpers” and edit instsrv.bat file.
• Search for cq_runmode property; if you want to register an Author instance as service then give cq_runmodes=”author” or

if you want to register publish instance as service then provide cq_runmode=”publish”.

• Search for cq_port property and modify accordingly with the port your instance is running.
• Open command prompt (Run as Administrator) go to “<author/publish>\crx-quickstart\opt\helpers” and type “instsrv.bat cqauthor” for author and “”instsrv.bat cqpublish” for publish.
• Go to run mode (windows key+R) and type “services.msc”, you should see a services window and find cqauthor and cqpublish services.

Port Management:

If you want to change port of your CQ instance, follow the below steps:

• Modify the name of the CQ quickstart jar file and add the port number of your choice.
• Edit start.bat file and modify “cq_port” with the port number of your choice.
• Edit instsrv.bat file and modify “cq_port” with the port number of your choice.
• Restart server and your CQ instance will be running on updated port number.

Let me know if any questions. Thanks!