Defining a jboss.server.base.dir doesn't really work

[lups]

Hi all,

I'm using JBoss AS 7.1.1 and trying to use a standalone server outside of the JBOSS_HOME "standalone" subdirectory.

To do this, I can't find a howto, so I tried these steps :

• I copy the C:\My Program Files\jboss\jboss-as-7.1.1.Final\standalone directory in my working environment : C:\Myenv\standalone
• I execute these lines :

set JBOSS_HOME=C:\My Program Files\jboss\jboss-as-7.1.1.Final

set JBOSS_BASE_DIR=C:\Myenv\standalone

set PATH=%JBOSS_HOME%\bin;%PATH%

standalone.bat

This doesn't work, do to https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AS7-3800, so I changed last line to

standalone.bat -Djboss.server.base.dir="%JBOSS_BASE_DIR%"

This time, JBoss starts without error.

However, I think that this simple configuration is still incorrect :

• The add-user script do not change my C:\Myenv\standalone\configuration\mgmt-users.properties, but my C:\My Program Files\jboss\jboss-as-7.1.1.Final\standalone\configuration\mgmt-users.properties !
• I also tried (with same failure) :

     add-user -Djboss.server.base.dir="%JBOSS_BASE_DIR%"

• The jboss-cli command

     /core-service=platform-mbean/type=runtime:read-attribute(name=system-properties)

reports some references to %JBOSS_HOME%\standalone instead of %JBOSS_BASE_DIR%, as shown in this extract (jboss.server.* are correct but logging.configuration and org.jboss.boot.log.file are invalid) :

"jboss.server.base.dir" => "C:\\Myenv\\standalone",

        "jboss.server.config.dir" => "C:\\Myenv\\standalone\\configuration",

        "jboss.server.data.dir" => "C:\\Myenv\\standalone\\data",

        "jboss.server.default.config" => "standalone.xml",

        "jboss.server.deploy.dir" => "C:\\Myenv\\standalone\\data\\content",

        "jboss.server.log.dir" => "C:\\Myenv\\standalone\\log",

        "jboss.server.name" => "xxxxxx",

        "jboss.server.temp.dir" => "C:\\Myenv\\standalone\\tmp",

        "line.separator" => "

",

        "logging.configuration" => "file:C:\\My Program Files\\jboss\\jboss-as-7.1.1.Final\\standalone/configuration/logging.properties",

        "module.path" => "C:\\My Program Files\\jboss\\jboss-as-7.1.1.Final\\modules",

        "org.jboss.boot.log.file" => "C:\\My Program Files\\jboss\\jboss-as-7.1.1.Final\\standalone\\log\\boot.log",

How do you recommand to configure JBoss to have a dedicated standalone server outside of the Jboss install directory ?

Regards,

Bernard

[jamezp]

You should be able to set the JBOSS_BASE_DIR evironment variable in the standalone.conf.bat file.

set "JBOSS_BASE_DIR=C:\Myenv\standalone"

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James R. Perkins

[lups]

Thank you James for your answer. This solves the jboss-cli problem.

However, the add-user.bat script still works with properties file in C:\My Program Files\jboss\jboss-as-7.1.1.Final\standalone\configuration (and not with those in C:\Myenv\standalone\configuration) :

C:\Windows\System32>add-user

What type of user do you wish to add?
 a) Management User (mgmt-users.properties)
 b) Application User (application-users.properties)
(a):

Enter the details of the new user to add.
Realm (ManagementRealm) :
Username : admin
Password :
Re-enter Password :
The username 'admin' is easy to guess
Are you sure you want to add user 'admin' yes/no? y
About to add user 'admin' for realm 'ManagementRealm'
Is this correct yes/no? y
Added user 'admin' to file 'C:\My Program Files\jboss\jboss-as-7.1.1.Final\standalone\configuration\mgmt-users.properties'
Added user 'admin' to file 'C:\My Program Files\jboss\jboss-as-7.1.1.Final\domain\configuration\mgmt-users.properties'
Appuyez sur une touche pour continuer...

C:\Windows\System32>

So, users added with add-user script cannot be used to connect to JBoss console.

The easy workarround is to copy mgmt-users.properties from C:\My Program Files\jboss\jboss-as-7.1.1.Final\standalone to C:\Myenv\standalone\configuration.

But I think that add-user script should take care of the jboss base dir configuration...

Bernard

[wdfink]

With AS7.1.1 the add-user does not support this.

If you use AS7.2 you can add 'add-user.... -sc c:\Myenv\standalone\configuration'

I'm not sure whether it works with ' ' in the path as your original 'My Progam Files' is