Installing a WebSphere instance for free-text search

Guidewire free-text search requires that you install a different instance of WebSphere than the instance that runs your PolicyCenter application. In a production environment, Guidewire requires that you set up the separate WebSphere instance on a host that is separate from the one that hosts PolicyCenter. This separate instance of the application server runs a full-text search engine, Apache Solr.

Whenever you install a separate WebSphere instance for Guidewire free-text search, change the HTTP port for the default host and its virtual host to 8983. The standard Solr port is 8983. You configure ports on WebSphere through the administrative console.