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Sitecore Experience Commerce: Preparing a Clean Install of XC 9.1

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In this article, we will look at preparing for the installation Sitecore Experience Commerce, by making the minimal amount of necessary changes for a baseline installation and avoiding the pitfalls with the default configuration. From this point, modifying the configurations for project-specific should be simpler.

This article is intended to supplement the Sitecore XC 9.1 Installation Guide for the download package version Sitecore.Commerce.2019.04-3.0.163.zip.

Pre-Installation

Before running the deployment script, we will correct the configuration and apply some workarounds in order to successfully install Sitecore Commerce.

Workarounds

  1. The <Identity Server web root>\Config\production\Sitecore.IdentityServer.Host.xml needs to be updated to include the new commerce site bindings from the $SiteHostHeaderName. (“sxa.storefront.com” from the deployment script). 
    <Clients>
  <DefaultClient>
    <AllowedCorsOrigins>
  	  <AllowedCorsOriginsGroup1>http://SC911.sc</AllowedCorsOriginsGroup1>
  	  <AllowedCorsOriginsGroup2>http://sxa.storefront.com</AllowedCorsOriginsGroup2>
  	  <AllowedCorsOriginsGroup3>https://sxa.storefront.com</AllowedCorsOriginsGroup3>
    </AllowedCorsOrigins>
  </DefaultClient>
  ...
</Clients>
  2. Follow Installing Sitecore Experience Commerce 9.1 with Default Storefront Tenant and Site.

Configuration

For the installation step, we assume that Sitecore XP 9.1.1 has been installed already from XP Single packages (XP0). The only change to the configuration that is made is to reset the password $SitecoreAdminPassword to “b”.

Now, we need to reset the Deploy-Sitecore-Commerce.ps1 configurations to reasonable defaults.

To simplify the installation process, I place the Sitecore PowerShell Extensions zip file, Sitecore Experience Accelerator zip file, and Microsoft.Web.XmlTransform.dll file directly in the deployment folder.

The following parameters are reset back to XP 9.1.1 Single packages (XP0) configuration:

  • $Sitename
  • $SqlDbPrefix
  • $IdentityServerSiteName
param(
	[string]$SiteName = "XP0",
	[string]$SiteHostHeaderName = "sxa.storefront.com",
	[string]$SqlDbPrefix = "$SiteName",
	[string]$CommerceSearchProvider = "SOLR",
	[string]$IdentityServerSiteName = "$SiteName.IdentityServer"
)

The following parameters are reset back to XP 9.1.1 Single packages (XP0) configuration:

  • SiteName
  • InstallDir
  • XConnectInstallDir

The following parameters are updated so that the evaluations return a single (and correct) string response, as opposed to an array of strings:

  • SitecoreCommerceEnginePath
  • SitecoreBizFxServicesContentPath

The following parameters are configured to point back to the deployment directory:

  • PowerShellExtensionsModuleFullPath
  • SXAModuleFullPath
  • MergeToolFullPath

The following parameters are modified to point to the correct release zip files, provided in the Commerce package:

  • SXACommerceModuleFullPath
  • SXAStorefrontModuleFullPath
$params = @{
		Path                                        = Resolve-Path '.\Configuration\Commerce\Master_SingleServer.json'
		BaseConfigurationFolder                     = Resolve-Path '.\Configuration'
		SiteName                                    = "$SiteName.sc"
		SiteHostHeaderName                          = $SiteHostHeaderName
		InstallDir                                  = "c:\inetpub\wwwroot\$SiteName.sc"
		XConnectInstallDir                          = "c:\inetpub\wwwroot\$SiteName.xconnect"
		CommerceInstallRoot                         = "c:\inetpub\wwwroot\"        
		CommerceServicesDbServer                    = $($Env:COMPUTERNAME)    #OR "SQLServerName\SQLInstanceName"
		CommerceServicesDbName                      = "SitecoreCommerce9_SharedEnvironments"
		CommerceServicesGlobalDbName                = "SitecoreCommerce9_Global"
		SitecoreDbServer                            = $($Env:COMPUTERNAME)            #OR "SQLServerName\SQLInstanceName"
		SitecoreCoreDbName                          = "$($SqlDbPrefix)_Core"
		SitecoreUsername                            = "sitecore\admin"
		SitecoreUserPassword                        = "b"
		CommerceSearchProvider                      = $CommerceSearchProvider
		SolrUrl                                     = "https://solr:8992/solr"
		SolrRoot                                    = "c:\\solr-7.2.1"
		SolrService                                 = "solr-7.2.1"
		SolrSchemas                                 = ( Join-Path -Path $DEPLOYMENT_DIRECTORY -ChildPath "SolrSchemas" )
		CommerceServicesPostfix                     = "Sc9"
		CommerceServicesHostPostfix                 = "Sc9.qa"
		SearchIndexPrefix                           = "sitecore"
		EnvironmentsPrefix                          = "Habitat"
		Environments                                = @('AdventureWorksAuthoring', 'HabitatAuthoring')
		AzureSearchServiceName                      = ""
		AzureSearchAdminKey                         = ""
		AzureSearchQueryKey                         = ""
		CommerceEngineDacPac                        = Resolve-Path -Path "..\Sitecore.Commerce.Engine.SDK.*\Sitecore.Commerce.Engine.DB.dacpac"
		CommerceOpsServicesPort                     = "5015"
		CommerceShopsServicesPort                   = "5005"
		CommerceAuthoringServicesPort               = "5000"
		CommerceMinionsServicesPort                 = "5010"
		SitecoreBizFxPort                           = "4200"
		SitecoreCommerceEnginePath                  = Resolve-Path -Path "..\Sitecore.Commerce.Engine.3.0.163.zip"
		SitecoreBizFxServicesContentPath            = Resolve-Path -Path "..\Sitecore.BizFX.2.0.3"
		CommerceEngineCertificateName               = "storefront.engine"
		SiteUtilitiesSrc                            = ( Join-Path -Path $DEPLOYMENT_DIRECTORY -ChildPath "SiteUtilityPages" )
		HabitatImagesModuleFullPath                 = Resolve-Path -Path "..\Sitecore.Commerce.Habitat.Images-*.zip"
		AdvImagesModuleFullPath                     = Resolve-Path -Path "..\Adventure Works Images.zip"
		CommerceConnectModuleFullPath               = Resolve-Path -Path "..\Sitecore Commerce Connect*.zip"
		CommercexProfilesModuleFullPath             = Resolve-Path -Path "..\Sitecore Commerce ExperienceProfile Core *.zip"
		CommercexAnalyticsModuleFullPath            = Resolve-Path -Path "..\Sitecore Commerce ExperienceAnalytics Core *.zip"
		CommerceMAModuleFullPath                    = Resolve-Path -Path "..\Sitecore Commerce Marketing Automation Core *.zip"
		CommerceMAForAutomationEngineModuleFullPath = Resolve-Path -Path "..\Sitecore Commerce Marketing Automation for AutomationEngine *.zip"
		CEConnectModuleFullPath                     = Resolve-Path -Path "..\Sitecore Commerce Engine Connect*.zip"
		PowerShellExtensionsModuleFullPath          = Resolve-Path -Path "..\Sitecore PowerShell Extensions*.zip"
		SXAModuleFullPath                           = Resolve-Path -Path "..\Sitecore Experience Accelerator*.zip"
		SXACommerceModuleFullPath                   = Resolve-Path -Path "..\Sitecore Commerce Experience Accelerator 2.*.zip"
		SXAStorefrontModuleFullPath                 = Resolve-Path -Path "..\Sitecore Commerce Experience Accelerator Storefront 2.*.zip"
		SXAStorefrontThemeModuleFullPath            = Resolve-Path -Path "..\Sitecore Commerce Experience Accelerator Storefront Themes*.zip"
		SXAStorefrontCatalogModuleFullPath          = Resolve-Path -Path "..\Sitecore Commerce Experience Accelerator Habitat Catalog*.zip"
		MergeToolFullPath                           = Resolve-Path -Path "..\Microsoft.Web.XmlTransform.dll"
		UserDomain                                  = $Env:COMPUTERNAME
		UserName                                    = 'CSFndRuntimeUser'
		UserPassword                                = 'Pu8azaCr'                          

		BraintreeAccount                            = @{
			MerchantId = ''
			PublicKey = ''
			PrivateKey = ''
		}
		SitecoreBizFxServerName                     = "SitecoreBizFx"
		SitecoreIdentityServerApplicationName       = $IdentityServerSiteName
		SitecoreIdentityServerHostName              = $IdentityServerSiteName
	}

Post Installation

  • During the installation the original bindings for the Sitecore website, e.g. ‘XP0.sc’, are removed. Add these bindings back in IIS.
  • If you add the Postman collections/environments to Postman, the
    SitecoreIdServerHost will need to be updated to point to ‘XP0.identityserver’.
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Installing Sitecore Experience Commerce 9.1 with Default Storefront Tenant and Site

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In this article, we will look at applying a workaround in order to install the default storefront tenant and site during the Sitecore Commerce 9.1 installation as unfortunately there’s a bug that prevents these from being created during the installation.

Workaround Steps

Note: This has been tested and verified against the On Premise packages.

 

  1. Following on from the installation guide’s step, 2.2. Download the Sitecore XC release package and prerequisites, navigate and extract the file named xml from Sitecore Commerce Experience Accelerator Storefront 2.0.181.zip\package.zip\items\master\sitecore\system\Modules\PowerShell\Script Library\CXA – Internal\Web API\CreateDefaultStorefrontTenantAndSite\{6FEC77C8-00DC-4B7B-9597-82588616A1F2}\en\1.
  2. Open the file and add the following snippet before Function CreateCXATenant. 
    #Override Write-Progress to avoid errors which happen because of impossibility to write-progress in non-interactive sessions
Function Write-Progress {
    [CmdletBinding()]
    param(
        [Parameter(Mandatory = $false)]
        $Activity,
        [Parameter(Mandatory = $false)]
        $CurrentOperation,
        [Parameter(Mandatory = $false)]
        $Status,
        [Parameter(Mandatory = $false)]
        $PercentComplete,
        [Parameter(Mandatory = $false)]
        [switch]$Completed
    )
    process {
        # do nothing
    }
}
  3. Replace the file in the archive with the updated file.
  4. Continue to follow the installation guide.

When the deployment script run in step 3.2. Run the deployment script, the default tenant and site will now be created.