Running Multiple Instances of JBoss 7 on a Windows 2008 Server

[gdavis23]

I am having difficulties getting two instances of JBoss 7 to run on a Windows machine.

I have the main instance listening on the default ports.

I copied the entire folder structure to a new one called JBoss-AS-Web-Org2.

I edited the standalone.xml file to add a port offset on the Org2 copy.  It looks like this:

Here is the management ports section:

	<management-interfaces>
	<native-interface interface="management" port="29999"/>
	<http-interface interface="management" port="29990"/>
	</management-interfaces>
	</management>

Here is the port bindings section:

</interface>

        <interface name="public">

            <inet-address value="${jboss.bind.address:127.0.0.1}"/>

        </interface>

    </interfaces>

    <socket-binding-group name="standard-sockets" default-interface="public" port-offset="200">

        <socket-binding name="http" port="8080"/>

        <socket-binding name="https" port="8443"/>

        <socket-binding name="jmx-connector-registry" port="1090" interface="management"/>

        <socket-binding name="jmx-connector-server" port="1091" interface="management"/>

        <socket-binding name="jndi" port="1099"/>

        <socket-binding name="osgi-http" port="8081" interface="management"/>

        <socket-binding name="remoting" port="4447"/>

        <socket-binding name="txn-recovery-environment" port="4712"/>

        <socket-binding name="txn-status-manager" port="4713"/>

    </socket-binding-group>

</server>

When I start it up it still binds to the default ports and populates the logs in the original copy of JBoss.

I have tried editing the set DIRNAME parm in the standalone.bat file with no luck.  Here is what I tried:

set DIRNAME=E:\JBoss-AS-Web-Org2\bin\

I tried it with several iterations of the path with no luck.

I tried this recommendation as well:  http://community.jboss.org/wiki/MultipleInstancesOfJBossAS7OnTheSameMachine

At the bottom of this thread a poster mentions adding the -Djboss.server.base.dir=instance1 parm.  I tried it using my path with no luck.  I tried it several ways with no luck.

Any ideas?

[gdavis23]

May have this figured out afterall.

By adding a JBOSS_HOME environment variable and updating all the bat files that point to it seems to have solved the problem.

[nickarls]

I've never had any problems running multiple instances without a JBOSS_HOME. In fact, I think it's mostly recommended not to have it set.