Deploying Communities deploying-communities
Prerequisites prerequisites
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AEM Communities license
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Optional licenses for:
Installation Checklist installation-checklist
For the AEM platform
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Install latest AEM 6.5 Updates
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If not using the default ports (4502, 4503), then configure replication agents
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If supporting globalization, setup automated translation
(sample setup is provided for development)
For the Communities capability
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If deploying a publishing farm, identify the primary publisher
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Set up a default email service
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Identify the choice for shared UGC storage (SRP)
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If MongoDB SRP (MSRP)
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If relational database SRP (DSRP)
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If ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓÆµ SRP (ASRP)
- Work with your account representative for provisioning
- Select ASRP
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If JCR SRP (JSRP)
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Not a shared UGC (User-Generated Content) store :
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UGC is never replicated
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UGC is only visible on the AEM instance or cluster in which it was entered
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The default is JSRP
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Latest Releases latest-releases
AEM 6.5 Communities GA includes Communities package. To know more about updates to AEM 6.5 Communities, see the AEM 6.5 Release Notes.
AEM 6.5 Updates aem-updates
Starting in AEM 6.4, updates to Communities are delivered as part of AEM Cumulative Fix Packs and Service Packs.
For the latest updates to AEM 6.5, see ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓÆµ Experience Manager 6.4 Cumulative Fix Packs and Service Packs.
Version History version-history
As on AEM 6.4 and beyond, AEM Communities features and hotfixes are part of AEM Communities cumulative fix packs and service packs. There are, therefore, no separate feature packs.
JDBC driver for MySQL jdbc-driver-for-mysql
One Communities feature use a MySQL database:
- For DSRP: storing UGC
The MySQL connector must be obtained and installed separately.
The necessary steps are:
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Download the ZIP archive from
- Version must be >= 5.1.38
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Extract mysql-connector-java-<version>-bin.jar (bundle) from the archive
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Use the web console to install and start the bundle :
- For example, https://localhost:4502/system/console/bundles
- Select
Install/Update
- Browse… to select the bundle extracted from the downloaded ZIP archive
- Check that Oracle Corporation’s JDBC Driver for MySQLcom.mysql.jdbc is active, and start it if not (or check the logs)
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If installing on an existing deployment after JDBC has been