JBoss AS/EAP Installation on CentOS/RHEL

JBoss Installation in few simple steps

JBoss comes in two bundles, Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) and Application Server (AS)

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•       EAP – Hardened and ready to deploy for enterprise standard
•        AS – Not hardened, not for enterprises

u  Linux Server Configuration

•       yum install java-1.6.0-openjdk

•       yum install java-1.6.0-openjdk-devel

•       yum install wget unzip

•       useradd jboss

•       Set java environment variable

export JAVA_HOME=

export PATH=

•       To know the exact path type the following command

# alternatives --config java

There is 1 program that provides 'java'.

  Selection    Command

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*+ 1           /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.6.0-openjdk.x86_64/bin/java

Enter to keep the current selection[+], or type selection number:

•       So based on the output the java home is “/usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.6.0-openjdk.x86_64/” and the bin path is “/usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.6.0-openjdk.x86_64/bin/”

•       Set hostname for the server (/etc/hosts, /etc/sysconfig/network, # hostname )

u  JBoss EAP Installation

•       Download jboss from jboss.org (jboss EAP or AS) to /opt/

•       unzip jboss-eap.zip

•       chown –R jboss:jboss jboss-eap-directory

•       /opt/jboss-eap/bin/add-user.sh

•       Minimum and maximum JVM memory can be set in the configuration files (standalone.conf and domain.conf) to the respective startup

u  Configuration

•       Jboss Management Portal http://server-ip:9990

•       Jboss Application Portal http://server-ip:8080

•       To Start Jboss instance

•       /opt/jboss-eap/bin/standalone.sh –Djboss.bind.address=0.0.0.0 –Djboss.bind.address.management=0.0.0.0 &

•       To Stop the jboss instance

/opt/jboss-eap/bin/jboss-cli.sh --connect command=:shutdown

•       RHEL/CentOS init startup script can be found on

/opt/jboss-eap/bin/init.d

•       Application deployment folder

/opt/jboss-eap/standalone/deployments/

•       Application (war, ear, jar) can be deployed to the deployments folder using jboss-cli and ssh or through the management portal (download Jenkins war from Jenkins-ci.org and deploy)

•       Jboss startup output will be logged to boot.log and the system logs will be saved in server.log

Please write to me incase of any assistance.