Installation of Jboss 6.1 Server on Centos 6

JBoss Application Server (or JBoss AS) is an open-source Java EE-based application server.

1Download and Install the Java Development Kit (JDK)

i.Downoad Latest version of JDK and move it to /opt directory.

ii.Create the  directory /usr/java and install the JDCK from here.

 Go to /usr/java  and

#chmod +x /opt/jdk-6u26-linux-..bin

#./ jdk-6u26-linux-..bin

2.Download and Install Jboss.

    First download jboss and then  Put jboss directory to /usr/share

3: Create the user, jboss, who will own and run JBoss

# groupadd jboss 

# useradd -s /bin/bash -g jboss jboss 

Change ownership of the JBoss home directory, /usr/share/jboss-6.0.0.Final so all files are owned by the user jboss we created.

# chown -Rf jboss.jboss /usr/share/jboss-6.1.0.Final/ 

 Set the required JAVA_HOME and JBOSS_HOME paths

i.go to jboss home folder

#cd /home/jboss

ii.List the Directory

#ls –a

iii.Open .bash_profile file and add the following to the file

JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/jdk1.6.0_26 

export JAVA_HOME 

PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH 

export PATH 

JBOSS_HOME=/usr/share/jboss-6.1.0.Final 

export JBOSS_HOME 

To check

#su jboss

#echo $JAVA_HOME.This should display following

/usr/java/jdk1.6.0_26

#  echo $JBOSS_HOME  This should display following

/usr/share/jboss-6.0.0.Final 

 Create a start/stop/restart script for JBoss.

i.Copy existing script to /etc/init.d

#cd /usr/share/jboss-6.1/bin

#cp jboss_init_redhat.sh /etc/init.d/jboss

Now go to /etc/init.d

Open jboss and add followings

i.Add lines 3,4, and 5:

# description: JBoss Start Stop Restart

# processname: jboss

# chkconfig: 2345 20 80

ii.Set the JBOSS_HOME to where we unpacked JBoss.

JBOSS_HOME=${JBOSS_HOME:-"/usr/share/jboss-6.0.0.Final"}

iii.Set the JAVA_HOME to where we installed the JDK.

JAVAPTH=${JAVAPTH:-"/usr/java/jdk1.6.0_26"}

iv. Add line 34, which sets the JBOSS_HOST to 0.0.0.0, allowing JBoss to bind to any IP.

JBOSS_HOST="0.0.0.0"

       (Just aboce JBOSS_BIND_ADDR)

Run JBoss as a Service.

Go to /etc/init.d

#chmod 755 jboss 

#chkconfig --add jboss 

#chkconfig --level 234 jboss on 

#service jboss start

Jboss takes some times to start.

Now access Jboss server on browser.

http://localhost:8080

The default username and password is admin admin

The default username and password can be changed by editing

 /usr/share/jboss-6.1.0.Final/server/default/conf/props  file.