Accessing the storefront and Setting up the workspace

Accessing the storefront

•  After initialization is done you can open hmc using http://localhost:9001/hmc 
•  Navigate hmc > wcms > websites > administration properties  and get the site url.
•  Try to access the storefront using the site url

  Setting up the workspace in IDE

• Open the STS / Eclipse and Navigate to file > import > select your hybris installation folder > select hybris directory.
• Import all the storefront extensions and some other basic extensions which you need in your workspace.
• Navigate to windows > preferences > change the ant environment and set it to hybris > bin > platform > ant
• Establish the dependencies between all the extensions manually, by navigating to all the extension properties.

Starting the Hybris server and Initializing the system

• Once the build is successful you can start the hybris server. Navigate to <${HYBRIS_BIN_DIR}> / platform directory.

On Windows systems, call the hybrisserver.bat file.

On Unix systems, call the hybrisserver.sh file, such as: ./hybrisserver.sh

This will start the hybris server and once the server is started you see a log message as shown below,

INFO: Server startup in 26438 ms

•      Open the administration console by using this url, http://localhost:9001/hac.

•       You are prompted to enter a user account name and a password. By factory default, you can use the admin user account and the nimda password as shown below,

• Go to the Platform tab and select the Initialization option as shown below,

• The Initialization page opens with preconfigured settings for initialization.
• Without changing any settings, click the Initialize button. Bear in mind that the initialization process may take up to an hour to finish.
• When the initialization process is completed, you should see the following information.

• Click the Continue link and log in again.

Note : If your browser fails to display the above information at the end of the initialization process, look at the console output.

• If you see the following output,

it means that the initialization has finished and you can refresh your browser and log in to the console.