BI Publisher (11.1.1.9.0) standalone installation

The below post will walk you through to install Oracle BI Publisher.

I'm assuming you already have JAVA and Weblogic installed. Also, please refer to the links section at the bottom of this post for all the software downloads.

so without further ado -

STEP 1 : Download BIP binaries
STEP 2 :
2.a Download RCU

2.b Edit /rcuHome/bin/rcu script to declare JRE_DIR=$JAVA_HOME/jre
2.c Run ./rcu

STEP 3 :
3.a unzip the BI publisher binary zip files downloaded in step 1.
3.b run the ./runInstaller script in /bishiphome/Disk1/

We'll do a software install only in this instance, and run the configure.sh separately for configuring the domain.
You may try the "Enterprise Install" option where you'll get option to configure the new domain at the same go.

STEP 4 : Create and Configure a new weblogic domain
move to MW_HOME/Oracle_BI1/bin (or any other Oracle BIP home name you've specified in step 2) and execute config.sh.

Important : 
If you're installing BIP to be sued with OIM as I am, it's very important that you only configuer the BI Publisher and not the other products from the OBIEE suite, other wise the BIP portal will be up and running but reports will not be visible as below [reference (Doc ID 2426660.1)].

screenshots for config.sh : 

select only BI Publisher

STEP 5 : commom ERRORS encountered 

Since the we configuered the new domain with the "auto port configuration" option, check and modify the ports if required or already in use in the MW_Home/user_projects/domains/bifoundation_domain/config/config.xml file.

CD to  ../servers/serverName/ and clear the rm -Rf  cache/* data/* tmp/*

Since this is the first time, move to /security and check if the boot.properties is there, if not create it as below for both the Admin and Managed bi_server1 :

password=************
username=weblogic

Start the BI Admin and Managed servers from ../bifoundation_domain/bin path.

Check if the "xmlpserver" is deployed and in Active stage named as bi_publisher with deployment order 510 in the  deployment section of the weblogic admin console, if not, redeploy.

While deploying, if you face library missing errors as below :

Error [J2EE:160149]Error while processing library references. Unresolved application library references, defined in weblogic-application.xml: [Extension-Name: adf.oracle.domain, exact-match: false], [Extension-Name: oracle.jsp.next, exact-match: false], [Extension-Name: bijdbc, exact-match: false], [Extension-Name: oracle.ess, exact-match: false], [Extension-Name: oracle.applcore.model, exact-match: false].

check the missing library references in the ../bifoundation_domain/config/config.xml file source Path attribute , and deploy the libraries in the bi_server1.

 If the BIP portal comes up , and everything seems proper, jump to step 6 , else if you see the below error after logging in :

Locate the 'xmlp-server-config.xml' file in the path ..//bifoundation_domain/config/bipublisher and overwrite the file :

<?xml version = '1.0' encoding = 'UTF-8'?>
<xmlpConfig xmlns="http://xmlns.oracle.com/oxp/xmlp">
   <resource>
      <file path="../bifoundation_domain/config/bipublisher/repository"/>
#mention your own file based repository path.
   </resource>
   <config>
      <file path="${xdo.server.config.dir}/repository"/>
   </config>
</xmlpConfig>

If you see the "Administration" tab missing in the BIP portal once you loginto with weblogic user password, do the following  :

1.Log into Fusion Middleware Control, navigate to Security, then select Application
Roles to display the Application Roles page.
2. Choose Select Application Stripe to Search, then select the obi from the list. Click
the search icon next to Role Name.
3. Select the cell next to the application role name and click Edit to display the Edit
Application Role page.
You can add or delete members from the Edit Application Role page. Valid
members are application roles, groups, and users.


STEP 6 : 

Copy the ../OIM_Oracle_Home/server/reports/oim_product_BIP11gReports_11_1_2_1_0.zip file, and unzip it under ../bifoundation_domain/config/bipublisher/repository/Reports path.

no server restart is required, log into the bip portal http://host:port/xmlpserver and you'll be able to see this new OIM OOTB templates unser catalog/shared folders.


Important Links : 

Oracle Fusion Middleware Download, Installation, and Configuration ReadMe Files

BI Publisher binaries  :
https://www.oracle.com/middleware/technologies/bi-downloads.html
RCU :
Patch 20996068: ORACLE FUSION MIDDLEWARE REPOSITORY CREATION UTILITY 11G (11.1.1.9.0)

Library :
https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/bi-foundation/documentation/bi-pub-096318.html