apolgies if this is the wrong forum for this query - if you steer me to a more apropriate place then that's fine.

starting a jboss7 instance is easy enough - cd bin; ./standalone.sh and away you go.

Stopping the instance is somewhat less obvious though - googling elicited this - bin/jboss-admin.sh --connect command=:shutdown

However, I then had to make alterations to  JBOSS_HOME/configuration/standalone.xml so the instance can be accessed outside the local system - and that "breaks" the stopping command above with a compliant

Communication error: Could not connect to remote://localhost:9999 in 5000ms. Make sure the server is running and/or consider setting a longer timeout by setting -Dorg.jboss.as.client.connect.timeout=<timeout in ms>.

Closed connection to localhost:9999

presumably this is because of the chnages made in standalone.xml - so what else must I change to allow this shutdown command to now work as a result?

cheers

ian