Sitecore 9 Local Installation Part 3 – Installation with SIF

Version : Sitecore Experience Platform 9.0 rev. 171219 (9.0 Update-1)
Topology: XP Single (XP0)
Solr Version: Solr 6.6.2

Let’s split the Sitecore 9 installation into three parts,

Look at Prerequisites
Install Solr with Https
Install Sitecore 9 with Sitecore Installation Framework (SIF)

First download the required tools and packages,

Download the XP0 package from Sitecore download page.

sitecore-xp0-download

Extract the newly downloaded package and observe there would be three .zip files.

sitecore9-xp0-zip

First two are for Sitecore website and xConnect respectively. Last one consists of configuration files (with .json extensions)

Extract the files from XP0 Configuration files 9.0.1 rev. 171219.zip

sitecore-xp0-configurations

Copy first two zip files and the extracted configuration files to single folder.

sitecore-xp0-extract

Install SIF:

Sitecore Install Framework (SIF) can be downloaded through Sitecore PowerShell gallery or manually from SIF downloads page.

Here let’s take approach of installing it through PowerShell gallery.

Open PowerShell command window as admin, and run the following commands

1. Register the Repository

Register-PSRepository -Name SitecoreGallery -SourceLocationhttps://sitecore.myget.org/F/sc-powershell/api/v2

2. Install Framework module

Install-Module SitecoreInstallFramework

3. Install Fundamentals module

Install-Module SitecoreFundamentals

sitecore-SIF-PS-Install

License File

Copy the Sitecore license file to the same folder (D:9).

Installation Script

There is an installation script present in Installation Guide (page: 28). Copy the script and save it as Sitecore901install.ps1 to the D:9 folder.

	#define parameters
	$prefix = "sc901demo"
	$PSScriptRoot = "D:\9"
	$XConnectCollectionService = "$prefix.xconnect"
	$sitecoreSiteName = "$prefix.local"
	$SolrUrl = "https://localhost:8983/solr"
	$SolrRoot = "C:\Sitecore9\solr-6.6.2"
	$SolrService = "solr662"
	$SqlServer = "(local)"
	$SqlAdminUser = "sa"
	$SqlAdminPassword="sa"

	#Install client certificate for xConnect
	$certParams = @{
	Path = "$PSScriptRoot\xconnect-createcert.json"
	CertificateName = "$prefix.xconnect_client"
	}
	Install-SitecoreConfiguration @certParams –Verbose

	#Install Solr cores for xDB
	$solrParams = @{
	Path = "$PSScriptRoot\xconnect-solr.json"
	SolrUrl = $SolrUrl
	SolrRoot = $SolrRoot
	SolrService = $SolrService
	CorePrefix = $prefix
	}
	Install-SitecoreConfiguration @solrParams

	#Deploy xConnect instance
	$xconnectParams = @{
	Path = "$PSScriptRoot\xconnect-xp0.json"
	Package = "$PSScriptRoot\Sitecore 9.0.1 rev. 171219 (OnPrem)_xp0xconnect.scwdp.zip"
	LicenseFile = "$PSScriptRoot\license.xml"
	Sitename = $XConnectCollectionService
	XConnectCert = $certParams.CertificateName
	SqlDbPrefix = $prefix
	SqlServer = $SqlServer
	SqlAdminUser = $SqlAdminUser
	SqlAdminPassword = $SqlAdminPassword
	SolrCorePrefix = $prefix
	SolrURL = $SolrUrl
	}
	Install-SitecoreConfiguration @xconnectParams

	#Install Solr cores for Sitecore
	$solrParams = @{
	Path = "$PSScriptRoot\sitecore-solr.json"
	SolrUrl = $SolrUrl
	SolrRoot = $SolrRoot
	SolrService = $SolrService
	CorePrefix = $prefix
	}
	Install-SitecoreConfiguration @solrParams

	#Install Sitecore instance
	$sitecoreParams = @{
	Path = "$PSScriptRoot\sitecore-XP0.json"
	Package = "$PSScriptRoot\Sitecore 9.0.1 rev. 171219 (OnPrem)_single.scwdp.zip"
	LicenseFile = "$PSScriptRoot\license.xml"
	SqlDbPrefix = $prefix
	SqlServer = $SqlServer
	SqlAdminUser = $SqlAdminUser
	SqlAdminPassword = $SqlAdminPassword
	SolrCorePrefix = $prefix
	SolrUrl = $SolrUrl
	XConnectCert = $certParams.CertificateName
	Sitename = $sitecoreSiteName
	XConnectCollectionService = "https://$XConnectCollectionService"
	}
	Install-SitecoreConfiguration @sitecoreParams