AEM Installation

The AEM software package is available in two foms:

• cq-quickstart-6.2.0.jar:A standalone executable jar file that includes everything needed to get up and running.
• cq-quickstart-6.2.0.war: A warfile for deployment in a third-party application server.

In addition you will also need a license code (to be entered on start-up) or a license.properties file, holding a valid code.

Steps to install:

• create a folder on your local machine as C:\Program Files\aem. [it would be great if folder name as aem-install as C:\Program Files\aem-install].
• Now place the aem jar file along with license.properties file under aem-install folder.
• Now just double click on jar to get install aem on your local.

You can also install aem through command line.

For a 32-bit VM, enter:

java -Xmx1024M -jar cq-quickstart-6.2.0.jar

For a 64-bit VM, enter:

java –XX:MaxPermSize=256m –Xmx1024M -jar cq-quickstart-6.2.0.jar

Now we have installed AEM Successfully. What next?

Now you can acces AEM by hitting http://localhost:4502 in your browser. This is called author instance and it will automatically configured and connect to publish instance on the port 4503.

You can also differentiate the both instances by renaming the jar file before installing

For example, renaming the file to

cq-author-p4502.jar

and launching it will result in an author instance running on localhost:4502.

Similarly, renaming and launching the file

cq-publish-p4503.jar will result in a publish instance running on localhost:4503.

Starting and stopping.

AEM starts and automatically redirects your web browser to the appropriate page, usually the login page; for example: http://localhost:4502/

Thanks

Mujafar Shaik.