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Installing JBoss EAP

  1. Log in to the Red Hat Customer Portal and download Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4.0 Installer.

  2. Open a terminal and navigate to the directory containing the downloaded JBoss EAP installer.

  3. Run the text-based installer using the following command:

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# java -jar jboss-eap-7.4.0-installer.jar
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JBoss installation

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JBoss installation

  1. Change the owner & group of the JBoss EAP folder.

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# chown -R jboss:jboss /opt/EAP-7.4.0/

  1. Edit JBoss EAP configuration file /opt/EAP-7.4.0/bin/init.d/jboss-eap.conf with below entries.

jboss-eap.conf

 
JAVA_HOME=/opt/jdk1.8.0_202 

JBOSS_HOME=/opt/EAP-7.4.0 

JBOSS_USER=jboss

You need to modify the above values according to your environment. After adding the above lines, save the file.

  1. Now edit the /etc/profile file to add the below lines.

profile 

export JAVA_HOME=/opt/jdk1.8.0_202 export JBOSS_HOME=/opt/EAP-7.4.0 

export PATH=$PATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin:$JBOSS_HOME/bin

  1. Run the command below to reload the profile.

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# source /etc/profile

  1. Verify java home and jboss home path.

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# echo $JAVA_HOME 

# echo $JBOSS_HOME
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Verify Java and JBoss home PATH

  1. Copy the below two files.

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# cp /opt/EAP-7.4.0/bin/init.d/jboss-eap.conf /etc/default 

# cp /opt/EAP-7.4.0/bin/init.d/jboss-eap-rhel.sh /etc/init.d/
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Copy JBoss service files

  1. Run below two commands to reset the security context.

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# restorecon /etc/init.d/jboss-eap-rhel.sh 

# chkconfig --add jboss-eap-rhel.sh

  1. Start JBoss EAP service.

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# systemctl enable jboss-eap-rhel 

# systemctl start jboss-eap-rhel

  1. Check the status of JBoss EAP service.

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# systemctl status jboss-eap-rhel
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JBoss service status