jboss on f11 -- is it this simple?

arijit sarkar ari_sarkar_1980 at yahoo.co.in
Wed Jul 15 15:24:08 UTC 2009



On Tue, 2009-07-14 at 11:57 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Jul 2009, arijit sarkar wrote:
> 
> > > > -------- Forwarded Message --------
> > > > From: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca>
> > > > Reply-to: "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using
> > > > Fedora." <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> > > > To: Fedora List <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> > > > Subject: jboss on f11 -- is it this simple?
> > > > Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 03:44:59 -0400 (EDT)
> > > >
> > > > as a followup to a post of mine yesterday, and after mining through
> > > > ***way*** too verbose documentation all over the place, this seems to
> > > > be the recipe for installing and running jboss app server 5.1.0 on my
> > > > x86_64 f11 system -- perhaps someone who has a clue about this sort of
> > > > thing can verify this:
> > > >
> > > > 1) get
> > > > https://sourceforge.net/projects/jboss/files/JBoss/jboss-5.1.0.GA-jdk6.zip
> > > > 2) unload it somewhere under my home directory
> > > > 3) set env var JBOSS_HOME appropriately
> > > > 4) "sh run.sh" in jboss' "bin/" directory
> > > > 5) browse over to localhost:8080 and see the result
> > > >
> > > >   is that about right?  i'm not sure why the online docs seem to think
> > > > something like that requires page after page of explanation.
> >
> > Yes, I run jboss this way. This will work fine.
> >
> > initial username / password is 'admin' / 'admin' (without quotes).
> 
>   one more question, if i might -- one of the online docs suggested
> that i add the installed JBOSS "bin" directory to my search path PATH.
> i'm not sure if that's essential for proper jboss operation, or
> whether that was suggested only to make running the jboss startup
> script "run.sh" easier to invoke no matter where you are, and for no
> other reason.
> 
>   if it's the latter, i'd just as soon keep that entry out of my
> search path since i prefer to have a minimalist search path.  i see no
> reason to pollute it with another directory for the sake of a single
> startup script whose absolute filename i'm willing to type when i need
> it.
> 
> rday
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you don't need to put path to jboss bin folder in your search path if
you're willing to type the absolute path. :-)

Simply create an environment variable for JBOSS_HOME and you're okay. I
do that too.

--
Arijit Sarkar
India




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