Installation Tutorial

[sampaw]

Is there one???

I'd love to try your product, but the lack of decent docs makes it impossible to even get jboss to load, much less use it.

I have a zillion errors, mostly involving UnknownHostException. I'm pretty sure it has something to do with setting "${jboss.server.url}" - among others.

You could replace the current Installation Chapter with the following and have the exact same effect and meaning and save a bunch of bytes:

"Unpack jBoss and type "bin/run.sh or bin/rh.bat" - make sure you have jdk 1.3+ installed"

Any suggestions?

Thanks, Sam.

[mikefinn]

It is unusual that starting from a freshly unpacked distro does not work. Did you change the config? If so, what? Maybe a more practical way to ask this would be to post your errors/log, JBoss version, platform, and the changes you made to the config, if any. Also, check the FAQ forum.

mike

[sampaw]

mike, thanks for your help. I broke my arm on fri so i wont bothr with alot of punc, sorry,

"mikefinn" wrote:
It is unusual that starting from a freshly unpacked distro does not work. Did you change the config?

Only after it did not work.
1st I determined java_home was not set, set it. fixed bunch of errs,
then(all in default server directory), copied jboss-minimal.xml to jboss-server.xml. still beaucoup errs. finally edited jboss-servive.xml. because most errors contained "UnknownHostException" i chaned every occurance of ${jboss.server.url} to the servers' ip addr. thats all.

"mikefinn" wrote:

If so, what?

see above

"mikefinn" wrote:

Maybe a more practical way to ask this would be to post your errors/log,

Im not sure how to this on this forum. cut and paste???

"mikefinn" wrote:
JBoss version,

3.2.5

"mikefinn" wrote:
platform,

linux debian distro 9, kernel 2.4.20-8

"mikefinn" wrote:
and the changes you made to the config, if any.

see above

"mikefinn" wrote:
Also, check the FAQ forum.

did that 1st.

"mikefinn" wrote:

mike

THANKS again Mike! eagerly awaiting your response. In meantime will start over...

[darranl]

You shouldn't need to edit the JBoss config at all.

Have you had a look at the 'Getting Started Guide' from the Documentation link?

Also is your host defined in the /etc/hosts file, this is a common problem on Linux.