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Step by Step guide for Wildfly 10

(10.1.0) installation

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Wildfly is a free, open source & cross platform application server (formely known as
Jboss AS or Jboss). It is written in java programming language & currently it is being
maintained, developed by Redhat. It is very fast, lightweight application that can handle
millions of connections & is used to create applications easily. WildFlys architecture is
based on plug-gable subsystems, so you can easily add or remove.

In this tutorial, we are going to install latest stable version of Wildly i.e. 10.1.0 on our
Linux machine. So lets start,

(Also Read :Creating a Wildfly cluster for load-balancing in Linux )

Pre-requisites
We need a Linux machine (using CentOS 7 machine for this tutorial) with java 8
configured & all the environmental variables set. Kindly refer to our article Installing
JAVA 7 & 8 on Centos/RHEL 7 for installing java 8 on the machine.

Step 1 Downloading Wildfly 10.1.0

Firstly we will download the zip package of the wildfly 10.1.0, to do this open your
teminal & execute the following command,
$ wget http://download.jboss.org/wildfly/10.1.0.Final/wildfly-10.1.0.Final.zip
We can also download the package using a browser. Once the file has been downloaded,
copy it the installation directory. We can choose /opt or some other directory as
installation directory.

For this tutorial, we will be /data as the installation directory,

$ mkdir /data
$ cp wildfly-10.1.0.Final.zip /data
$ cd /data

Now we will extract the wildfly zip file,

$ unzip wildfly-10.1.0.Final.zip
Step 2 Configuring Wildfly (standalone.xml &
standalone.conf)
By default, wildfly server address is binded to 127.0.0.1 ie localhost & we can access it
only using 127.0.0.1 or localhost. To be able to access wildfly from anywhere on LAN, we
need to bind our system IP address instead of 127.0.0.1. To do that open
standalone.xml & replace 127.0.0.1 with your system IP address (192.168.1.100 is our IP
address),
$ vi /data/wildfly-10.1.0.Final/standalone/configuration/standalone.xml

<subsystem xmlns=urn:jboss:domain:webservices:2.0>
<wsdl-host>${jboss.bind.address:192.168.1.100}</wsdl-host>
<endpoint-config name=Standard-Endpoint-Config/>
<interface name=management>
<inet-address value=${jboss.bind.address.management:192.168.1.100}/>
</interface>
<interface name=public>
<inet-address value=${jboss.bind.address:192.168.1.100}/>
</interface>

These are total 3 places where you need to change the IP address. Once the IP address
has been changed, save file & exit. We will now make a couple of changes to file
standalone.conf where we need to add our JAVA_HOME & JBOSS_HOME paths,

$ vi /data/wildfly-10.1.0.Final/bin/standalone.conf

JAVA_HOME=/data/jdk1.8.0_73
JBOSS_HOME=/data/wildfly-10.1.0.Final
Save file & exit. We can now start the wildfly instance on our server.

Step 3 Starting the Wildfly instance

To start the wildfly instance, we need to run the script named standalone.sh located in
the bin directory,
$ cd /data/wildfly-10.1.0.Final/bin
$ sh standalone.sh
This will start the wildfly instance. To access the instance, open the web browser & enter
the following URL in the web browser

http://192.168.1.100:8080
This will open default wildfly page on the browser.

Step 4 Accessing management console

To access the management console, URL is
http://192.168.1.100:9990

But we cant access the page just yet, we need to create a management user to access
the console. To create a management user, firstly stop the running instance by pressing
ctrl + c & then in bin directory itself, run script named add-user.sh ,
$ cd /data/wildfly-10.1.0.Final/bin
$ sh add-user.sh

Once the script starts, follow the onscreen steps to create a management user. After the
username and password has been set up, same can be used to access the management
console from the URL mentioned above.
This was our step by step tutorial on wildfly 10.1.0 installation. Please feel free to send
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