Why do I have to deploy my webapp in deploy directory?

[mcevikce]

In real time production systems usually we will not have write permission to JBOSS install directory. That being said I should be able to deploy my webapp to a external directory and point my Jboss server to deploy my webapp from this external location.
So far I haven't been able to find any information that tells me if I can do that. Any help will be appriciated.

[rintin]

I'm pretty new to JBoss but this is what I found out. You can pass parameters to the startup script to indicate to JBoss that you'd like to use an alternative deploy directory.

I use ant to start JBoss:

<target name="jboss_start"
 description="Start JBoss server">
 <java dir="${env.JBOSS_CONFIG_DIR}" classname="org.jboss.Main" fork="true">
 <arg line="${JBOSS_ARGS}"/>
 </java>
 </target>

The JBOSS_CONFIG_DIR can be set to anything, "/config/jboss" for example. Within that you copy the contents of what server config you would like to copy. I copied the contents of the "default" folder $JBOSS_HOME/server/default

The ${JBOSS_ARGS} are:

<property name="JBOSS_ARGS" value="-Djboss.server.name=${env.JBOSS_CONFIG} -Djboss.server.base.dir=${env.JBOSS_CONFIG_DIR} -Djboss.server.base.url=${env.JBOSS_CONFIG_DIR} -Djboss.server.home.url=file:${env.JBOSS_CONFIG_DIR}/${env.JBOSS_CONFIG}"/>

These args are just telling JBoss to use something other than default.

You should now be able to deploy your webapp in the $JBOSS_CONFIG_DIR/deploy

Hope this helps.
-B-

[skbala]

Hi rintin,

Your information had been very much useful to me. But i had a doubt in mind about how to start Jboss using build.xml file. Initially i tried using task in and <run.sh>. But the problem i found with this is that now i am unable to shutdown by using "shutdown.sh -S".

You can say the way u did, rewrite the run.sh script in build.xml, but why should we read and understand run.sh and rewrite, i think it is all a headache..........

Any help is highly appreciated, atleast can u provide ur build.xml file here.

Thanks,
satish.

[skbala]

OOps!!

in the previous message, it is "using exec task" in 2nd line.

thanks,
satish.