JBoss install on Windows XP using port 8082

[grj99]

Hi All,

First off, I appreciate this user community.

I'm trying to get jboss-6.0.0.M1 up and running on Windows XP

Q1.  I read somewhere that JBoss cannot be installed to to a path with spaces in the names, so the following would not work, i.e.,

C:\Program Files\JBoss  .  Also that the same goes for the java installation,  C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_18     Is this true?

Q2.  I changed the port that JBoss runs on to 8082 by editing C:\Program Files\JBoss\jboss-6.0.0.M1\server\web\deploy\jbossweb.sar\server.xml

as follows:

   <Service name="jboss.web">

   <!-- A HTTP/1.1 Connector on port 8082 -->

      <Connector protocol="HTTP/1.1" port="8082" address="${jboss.bind.address}"

               connectionTimeout="20000" redirectPort="8443" />

Is this OK?

Q3.  I followed the steps in  C:\Program Files\JBoss\jboss-6.0.0.M1\bin\README-service.txt

    

Service JBoss Application Server 5.1 installed

C:\Program Files\JBoss\jboss-6.0.0.M1\bin>net start JBAS50SVC

The JBoss Application Server 5.1 service could not be started

The service did not report an error.

More help is available by typing NET HELPMSG 3534.

C:\Program Files\JBoss\jboss-6.0.0.M1\bin>

The JBoss Application Server 5.1 service is starting

C:\Program Files\JBoss\jboss-6.0.0.M1\bin>service.bat install

Any suggestions will be much appreciated.

-Jerry

[peterj]

Q1) Yes, the recommendation is to place neither the JDK nor JBoss AS into Program Files or in Documents and Settings on XP. I have JBoss AS at:

c:/opt/jboss/as/jboss-5.1.0.GA

and the JDK at:

c:/apps/Java/jdk1.6.0_18

Q2) Yes, that is OK. However, the better approach to changing any of the ports (including the HTTP port) is to edit the server/xxx/conf/bindingservice.beans/META-INF/bindings-jboss-beans.xml file.

Q3) To start JBoss AS, open a command prompt an 'cd' to the bin directory and run:

run

What you did was attempt to start JBoss AS as a service, but you first need to register it as a service. Since you are just now starting out with JBoss AS I highly recommend you run it from the command line (as indicated about) until you are comfortable with it. Later we can discuss how to set it up as a service. It is not hard to do, but it is much easier to debug problems you might encounter if it is not running as a service.