WSO2 Identity Server — 5 min install guide

Like I did a few days ago, Today I am going to show how to quickly install WSO Identity Server using the binary file distribution in a linux virtual machine for testing purposes.

Before we start, just a few words about what is WSO2 Identity Server:

WSO2 Identity Server can be used to simplify identity and access management (IAM) related activities in the enterprise. The product is based on open standards and open source principles. WSO2 Identity Server comes with seamless, easy to use integration capabilities that help connect applications, user stores, directories and identity management systems.

The current version is 5.7.0 and in order to download the file you’ll need to create your account for free in the wso2 website. Here it is the link:

Free Trial Subscription

There are a plenty of ways of installing a WSO2 Identity Server, you can see all of them in the wso2 website: https://wso2.com/identity-and-access-management/install/

In your linux machine, let’s start the quick installation:

It would be a best practice if you create a SO user called wso2.

1. Download and install Oracle JDK1.8 or OpenJDK 8 and set your JAVA_HOME; In my case I am going to download Oracle JDK 1.8 latest version in a tar gz file:

curl -L -b “oraclelicense=a” https://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/8u201-b09/42970487e3af4f5aa5bca3f542482c60/jdk-8u201-linux-x64.tar.gz -O

tar -xvzf jdk-8u201-linux-x64.tar.gz

ln -s /u01/middleware/jdk1.8.0_201 /u01/middleware/jdk
echo “export JAVA_HOME=/u01/middleware/jdk” >> ~/.bash_profile
echo “export PATH=$PATH:/u01/middleware/jdk/bin:/u01/middleware/jdk/jre/bin” >> ~/.bash_profile

java -version
openjdk version “1.8.0_201”
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_201-b09)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.201-b09, mixed mode)

2. Download and unzip wso2 product:

curl -o wso2is-5.7.0.zip -u <your_email_account>:<your_password> https://product-dist.wso2.com/products/identity-server/5.7.0/wum-updated-packs/wso2is-5.7.0.zip

unzip wso2is-5.7.0.zip

3. Running the product where IS_HOME is your identity server directory

sh <IS_HOME>/bin/wso2server.sh

4. You’ll see in the output logs a Mgt Console URL:

5. Type in your webbrowser the URL and you’ll see the login page. The default credentials are admin/admin.

That is it!

Reference:

https://docs.wso2.com/display/IS570/Installing+on+Solaris