Installing WebLogic 12c on Amazon EC2 Red Hat

A few rough tips for installing WebLogic 12c server on EC2 Red Hat Linux

• Install the Oracle JDK 7, NOT the OpenJDK version of Java
• Install X on Red Hat:
• sudo yum groupinstall "X Window System"
• export DISPLAY=localhost:10.0 
• Log out/ restart SSH session 
• Mount the data volume (called data in this example)
• Change permissions on the data volume
• Edit  /etc/fstab, add:
• /dev/xvdf /data defaults 0 2 (substitute your values for /xvdf and /data if different)
• Disable/configure Red Hat system firewall:
• sudo yum install system-config-firewall
• sudo system:config-firewall