How to Unpack a Site on the Web Servers
This topic provides steps for unpacking your site on the production Web servers in a Web farm after you have unpacked the site on the business management server in the data domain. For information about unpacking a Web site package on the business management server, see How to Unpack a Site on the Business Management Server.
When you unpack the Web site on additional Web servers, you are adding Web servers to an existing Commerce Server Web site. You can add these resources by using Site Packager and the Custom unpack option, or by using Commerce Server Manager, which calls the Site Packager tool. For information about how to use Commerce Server Manager to add Web servers to an application, see How to Add a Web Server to an Application.
Note
Before you unpack any Commerce Server package, verify that you are logged on as a member of the Administrators group.
Note
If you cancel the unpacking process, Commerce Server may not delete the databases that you created during the unpacking process.
To unpack your site on the production Web servers
Click Start, point to Programs, point to Microsoft Commerce Server 2009 , point to Tools, and then click Site Packages.
On the Welcome to Commerce Server Site Packager page, select Unpack from a package file (.pup), and then click Next.
On the Unpack page, click Browse and locate the package file to unpack. Select Custom unpack, and then click Next.
On the Unpack Method page, select Add a Web server to an existing application in an existing site, and then click Next.
On the Site Name page, select your site from Existing Sites and then click Next.
On the Select Applications page, clear the check boxes for Web services. Make sure that the check box for the site is selected, and then click Next.
On the Select IIS Computers, Web Sites and Paths page, click Next.
On the Profiling System page, click Next.
On the second Profiling System page, click OK.
In the Commerce Server Site Packager dialog box, click OK.
On the Unpacking is Complete page, click Finish.
Repeat steps 1 through 11 on each additional Web server in the Web tier.
After unpacking the site, perform the following security tasks for each Web server:
Set access permissions to help secure files and folders.
Create application pools and make assignments to the Internet Information Services (IIS) Worker Process group.
Authorize users and groups to access the Web services.
Enable Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) on each Web server.
For more information about these secure deployment tasks, see Configuring the Web Servers.
See Also
Other Resources
How to Unpack a Site on the Business Management Server
How to Add a Web Server to an Application