Tutorial: Migrating Oracle WebCenter Sites from On-Premises Install to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure WebCenter Sites on MarketPlace (Lift and Shift to OCI) (Doc ID 3038066.1)

Last updated on JULY 29, 2024

Applies to:

Oracle WebCenter Sites for OCI - Version 12.2.1.4_24.2 and later
Oracle WebCenter Sites - Version 12.2.1.4.0 to 12.2.1.4.0 [Release FatWire]
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Purpose

This document will show how to do Lift and Shift to migrate an Oracle WebCenter Sites (WCS) installation from an On-Premises install to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) WebCenter Sites on MarketPlace.

This exercise can be used as a proof of concept to migrate an On-Premise install to a WebCenter Sites on MarketPlace instance.

Scope

This document was tested with the following configuration:

WebCenter Sites (WCS) version 12.2.1.4.
This document assumes no any external authentication. In case of external authentication, this will need to be configured later.
This document will not cover the reconfiguration for Single Sign On solutions such as Oracle Access Manger (OAM), Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML), Customizable Single-Sign On, etc.
You should still be able to migrate the WebCenter Sites, but you will need to re-implement any non-standard SSO solutions.
This was a single node setup.
However, you can follow the steps to Scale Out to add nodes for High Availability.
This migration was tested on migration from Oracle Linux.
In this document the migration from On-Premises to WebCenter Sites on MarketPlace replaces the locations for Middleware Home and Domain Home and WebCenter Sites Shared to be the standard WebCenter Sites on Marketplace locations.
In this migration, the On-Premises Database instance version was Oracle DB 19c.
The Cloud Database version is Oracle Base Database Service

The migration of schemas was done using expdp and impdp which allows migration between different versions of the database.

NOTE:

Support for the different products used in this tutorial is provided by different teams. If assistance is needed, contact Oracle Support and ensure to open a Service Request for the related product.

The Repository Configuration Utility (RCU) is supported by the Fusion Middleware/WebLogic Server team.
Export/Import from and to the database is supported by the Database team
Installation and Configuration of WebCenter Sites is supported by the WebCenter Sites team.