How To Install JBoss On Ubuntu

This article will describe that how to install Jboss application server on Ubuntu. Jboss is a powerful open source java application server developed by RedHat.

To install Jboss we will follow the following steps :

Step 1: Java installation and verification

Step 2: Download JBoss and install

Step 3: Create the appropriate user for the Jboss

Step 4: Start the JBoss server and verify that the server has started properly

Step 5: Stop the JBoss server

Step 1: Java installation and verification First check that you have JDK installed in your system or not.To check your java installation and version you can run following command :

$ java -version

The command will show you the java version which is installed in your system. If you get error message '-bash: java: command not found', that means java is not installed. For the latest Jboss server we can take the JDK version above then 6. Here we are going to install java version 7.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jdk

Step 2: Download JBoss and install

To download the Jboss issue the following command :

$ wget http://download.jboss.org/jbossas/7.1/jboss-as-7.1.1.Final/jboss-as-7.1.1.Final.zip

Or you can download it from JBoss site http://www.jboss.org/jbossas/downloads/ page.

Install JBoss :

After successfully downloaded the Jboss now unzip the downloaded file in appropriate directory.To unzip the downloaded Jboss file issue the following command :

$ sudo unzip jboss-as-7.1.1.Final.zip -d /usr/share/

This command will install the JBoss application server to the directory /usr/share/. Alternatively you can choose any directory location to install JBoss.

Step 3: Create the appropriate user for the Jboss After successfully installation of JBoss application server, we need to create a user with appropriate privilege. It is a not a good idea to use JBoss with a root user, so we create a new user.

$ sudo adduser javaserver

Here we created a new user called javaserver. You can choose any name for new user.

Change ownership of the installation directory:

Now we have new user so we will give this user to ownership of the JBoss installation directory. To change the ownership of the JBoss installation directory issue follwing command :

$ sudo chown -fR jboss.jboss /usr/share/jboss-as-7.1.1.Final/

Switch user:

Now switch user to newly created user javaserver:

$ su javaserver

Add new user for the JBoss management console :

The final step is to create a JBoss management user, which is necessary to access JBoss Management console.

$ cd /usr/share/jboss-as-7.1.1.Final/bin
$ ./add-user.sh

After issuing above command you will see the following messages :

What type of user do you wish to add?
a) Management User (mgmt-users.properties)
b) Application User (application-users.properties)
(a): a

We select a, next you should see the following message:

Enter the details of the new user to add.
Realm (ManagementRealm) :
Username : javaserver
Password :
Re-enter Password :
* hit enter for Realm to use default, then provide a username and password

So above we have new Jboss management user, where username is javaserver and the password server. The password should not be same as username.

Step 4: Start the JBoss server and verify that the server has started properly

A standalone instance of the Jboss application server can be start using the following command :

$ ./standalone.sh -Djboss.bind.address=0.0.0.0 -Djboss.bind.address.management=0.0.0.0&

By default Jboss server is bind to localhost. Nobody can access the localhost using remote access. So we gave the bind.address to 0.0.0.0 and management to 0.0.0.0, to access url over the remote access on Internet.

Test the JBoss installation : To test that JBoss is installed successfully or not just open your browser and put the following url in address bar :

http://localhost:9990

Step 5: Stop the JBoss server To stop the instance of the JBoss server issue the follwoing command.

$ ./jboss-cli.sh --connect command=:shutdown