JBOSS Application Server 7.1.1 on Windows 8

Walk through of Installing JBOSS Application Server 7.1.1 on Windows 8 as a Service and connecting to Internet Information Server 8 (IIS8) via AJP protocol and BonCode Connector. We also walk through on how to deploy sample WAR archive (Railo http://getrailo.org) on JBOSS AS.

BonCode connector download site has changed: Please go to http://www.boncode.net and click the BonCode Connector Link

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hello and welcome to Keith's recording
of installing jboss application server
seven with Windows is eight on windows 8
on this is the walkthrough and a couple
things and that you will need to do we
get started is to download all the
package this that are needed
first off you will have to download a
jboss application server itself
I've already done so here and you will
also have to download the jboss web
native connectors and cables itself the
current version there is 2.10 and if you
want to type in the address this
www.change.org swept downloads it was
that native dash to your dish 10 dash
sorry . HTML and in my case i downloaded
e take the platform version or x64 on
Windows this is the particular file i
downloaded or for use on this particular
demonstration
however the
thing to install is the Java Runtime
environment you have not done so and i
will go ahead and do that real quick and
we'll go from there
in my case I will change this nation
folder for the installation and move it
away from the program file subdirectory
and place it into a directory right
under route
I name it I see job and place the
installation of java runtime on
after the installation of the java on
Thomason complete i am now it
distracting your jboss are the files
that i've downloaded to their default
location I will move them after the
unsub's complete the final location that
i want to use to install
i am now configuring the java runtime
environments like it differently based
on some of the recent security breaches
i'm actually going to completely disable
all the browser access to java we only
need to run the server on it not a
browser
the next thing I'm going to do is
actually extract the jboss native app
connectors here wrappers and put it on
the drive system where they were as well
once the extraction here is complete
that we move the jboss files where I
want to move them finally first of all
i'm going to just reading this one here
to jboss and
got it right into I draw
route and here's here all the tables
files going to go back to my native
connectors and take anything that's in
the bin directory including the service
back all that is not there i'm in
standard installation and move them
right into the bin directory here and
paste it right there
so now i have combined list file at this
point in time I could actually go ahead
and start a standalone command window
based version of jboss if I like to do
that I have to start the command window
in application administrative most I'm
going to right-click on the command
prompt and run as administrator
that will open up my window in
administrator mode so I'm going to
simply go in and
go to the bin directory of the boss and
I could just type in stand-alone that to
startup is going to take awhile for the
first time startup of our
once the startup get the started in
milliseconds notification at this point
can actually access something that we
won't be able to login as we have not
configured on our administrative user so
we'll do that next
I guess
there we go that's the notification we
get so let's configure the
administrative user real quick
me I'm just going to start up another
command line window in this illustrative
mode
and
go back
to the directory that I used
and start program
add user ash at and walk through the
prompts that will be presented here
we're going to see it management user
management around a sign
username and password
and we're going to say yes even though
it s and now have figured something and
upon the next restart even now I think
we can just go in and refresh the page
should be able to get the demonstrative
section however we really wanted to
install and run cable service and
connect through is 8 so those are the
next that's that we are going to follow
we are actually going to use work
add
our editor to make some changes to the
files that we need to make so we going
to open
our services
definition file let me just fine
boss in this case standalone
configuration changed as you can see all
and the standalone xml file is the one
you want
at this point what we're going to do is
add a protocol mapping 480p or the
attaching a surf protocol and that will
find the subsystem tag
and see that you can find the default
one you up a little bit
for the web brown ok
the easiest way to do that
beautiful look for HTTP and find the
subsystem there and we need to modify
need to add the connector protocol that
is will use to connect to jboss and
that's the 80 AGP 13 total call and I'm
actually going to paste that in rather
than type it and right there
as you see i have tasted another
attribute for the subsystem it's called
connector name is ATP protocol is a
t-back / 13 this is important because i
haven't seen that documented quite as
often as it needs to
because if you don't have scheme and
most examples on have it the 71 version
of the jboss application server will not
start up correctly the socket binding
here is aging and the socket binding
group ajp should already be part of it
so this is really the only change we
need to make two for jboss to accept
inbound connection on this protocol is
owned the web server and the application
server kind of talk successfully so just
a quick search for the remainder should
find that the default port or socket
binding is 800 900 agent in which is
perfectly fine so we save this so the
next step for us actually going to open
the services that that file which we
will use later on to register the
services so that is very copied it
initially which is the bin directory of
the jboss services bad foul and that
ball was actually delivered by the web
connectivity on that native connectors
that we download separated one version
of of that collection of files it is not
very up-to-date so we have to make a few
changes there that are not quite obvious
about make it
so that the 71 version of algebra
scanner pt1 as a service and windows as
you see this is five really outdated and
it's from the 500 version of table so
I'm just going to change the service
name
jboss here and maybe just this little to
what it is now and it is going to
this one similarly and let's find couple
system problems that we have that need
to be changed so what we'll do is very
very have run . back we actually need to
change it to stand alone . that and i'm
going to just going to black place
everything that's good
think I got everything the next thing
that you won't worry about is the
shutdown command which is actually
misstated so let me see what I can find
it
shut down all the shutdown elements here
um no longer work in seven so we have to
taste another equivalent call or shut
down and see whether i can then paste it
directly there you go
this is actually the correct called
shutdown and 71 now if you leave this in
you will actually shut down your server
so it's not really what you want to do
so that's the modification that's needed
that should another one right down here
we're just going to take that out and
that should be it as well so let me save
and that should do the trick before we
doing anything is the service itself
let's shut down a person controls the on
the running terminal window that's
running on a bus right now so we started
up as a service successfully without
conflict
ok after the modified the services back
to our liking
we will actually ensure that we are in
the bin directory which would be still
there and let me see here
and we will just around the services or
service sorry bath and we should ask for
install
which hopefully register e-service in
the windows services area so let's see
whether we can find that so we'll just
pull up the control panel and see
whether we can find service
oops
items administrative tool service
and indeed
three of us application server $YEAR 7
11 now registered in service that's the
way we can start up
and seemingly this has started up on and
let's see their response to call on its
default port still not is the next step
is there was something
chrome localhost 8080 see whether it
comes up
yay administrative console should work i
feel remember our user
and has four then we should get this
just quickly checking on our protocols
here's the aging HTTP protocol that we
registered which is an addition to the
HD people to call so the next step is
really to connect is back up on to jboss
so if I for example just all the local
host without the 8080 port we still get
the is image
the one thing the end ensure that this
goes to jboss and whatever you want
why on it instead so you have to deploy
a connector in order to do that we will
use the code connector that is available
at some cut is . real orange dot org and
we just download it to our download
folder
there it is
it's opening
that up and i think this is an old
download we just gonna rename this this
is crushed
so we'll use it one thing to do before
we do anything else use the windows
properties and unblock it we can use it
is a new security future and windows 7
and nothing listed above sorry and that
arm marks download from the internet we
need to be able to use it also available
to unlock it so I'm just going to
extract from here on the connector and
once to extraction is complete I want to
go in there and just run the setup here
going to run as administrator here as
well as it has to make some changes for
us that help connect is to its
going to say yes here on it was asking
that should install the.net for me and I
said yes I will accept license through
this i'm going to accept the default
because we set up the tables on the same
machine as the is and connector so here
this is correct we will enable this for
now nothing to be check here and i'm
going to install it as a global or all
is sites will be redirected for jboss
use and I'm going to uncheck this and
I'm going to say let's use servlets on
which is a fairly substantial change
that means we will redirect all traffic
flow going through is to Tom cap we want
to be selectively meaning we want to
have static pages be serve my ass we
probably want to be a little more
specific than that and we will also
enable some configuration and the next
thing for me to do is just wait
nonstick connector connect installation
is complete we are now ready to direct
traffic through from is to a JBoss and
we'll check that out here so I'm just
going to type in a little closer again
off the court and see what you get and
in our case and updates except in my
case I just have to refresh it because
it looked like it was cash so we are
getting jboss responses through is as I
haven't specify port let's go to the
administrative console which will
actually switch back to the Tomcat
built-in thing that we're going to
deploy something so let's sum add
content to jboss and see how it flows
through is and in my case I've just
downloaded a project on the web which is
a whole fusion engine name right low and
i put it correctly my downloads area
there it is
and I'm going to see whether i can apply
that on jboss and access it through is
as a final step of our verification
in my case I'm just going to shorten the
name obviously if you want to deploy
multiple versions of this project you
want to have some sort of version
specific identifiers and from there I'm
going to enable it as well and wait
until that's complete
once the enablement of my rival school
mission is complete i get message that
is deployed and I should be able to
access it
so let's go ahead and access our project
through is so that means we won't
specify port and should be right here so
let's see whether we get it and there it
is truly actually deployed project
through is react sesang it on Andre boss
so what we've been able to do here on
overall now is to deploy jboss as a
native windows service and deploy
connectivity to jboss project and
through is using the code connector
that's all i have for this
thanks for listening