Sitecore 9 - New is coming, so don't trust yourself (Installation tip)

It was going so fast, only Sitecore Symposium has been finished, I was installing new Sitecore 9 on my local machine.

I have mainly everything on my computer, I believed, because of previous projects in Sitecore, so installation will be faster. I've skip all backgrounds tool like .Net Framework or Solr and I've focused on SIF installation.

I went through each installation step and run script, it's alive I thought ! Everything was ok until step 27 which showed mi something like this:

Wow ! Something with windows service ? I've started to figure out what could block my windows service. Windows event logger looked like:

So something with my windows, which couldn't open new xconnect service. I've read a lot, talked with DevOps to find out some windows solution and then I've noticed that new Sitecore 9 needs solr on SSL setup :) !

My routine was my biggest opponent at that moment. I moved back to previous step installations and released SSL ports, installed solr on SSL and whole Sitecore work perfectly. At this moment I would like to warn you - don't trust yourself :)

In connection to Solr on SSL I will not repeat my friends work and just link to their posts:

Lukasz Skowronski post

Kamsar post

Enjoy new Sitecore 9 !

Author Details

Sitecore MVP 2018, MVP 2020
Winner of international Sitecore Hackathon 2018,
Co-Organizer of Sitecore User Group Poland,
Highly motivated Sitecore Team Leader and Architect with over 10 years of experience.

I’ve worked as project architect and consultant, who always advice to find the best solution for client issues. I take care of building best user experienced content management applications. As a team leader and Agile approach enthusiast, for whom each team member is important.

I have a lot of professional Sitecore development experience. I work with Sitecore since 2014, as a developer and afterwards, team leader and architect.