How to deploy WSO2 WSAS-3.* on JBoss

WSO2 DOES NOT ENCOURAGE INSTALLING WSO2 APPLICATION SERVER (previously known as WSAS) ON TOP OF OTHER APPLICATION SERVERS. WSO2 HAS DECIDED TO DROP SUPPORT FOR WEBAPP DEPLOYMENT MODE OF THE WSO2 PLATFORM AND PRODUCTS.





WSO2 WSAS can be deployed on most of the application servers with a simple set of configuration steps. This post describes the steps to deploy WSO2 WSAS-3.* on JBOSS 5.*


Step 1

Download WSO2 WSAS-3.0.1 from here. Extract the downloaded zip into a directory. Copy conf, database, repository and resources directories in to a new folder. Here after, we will refer it is wsas-repo (i.e:- C:\wsas\wsas-repo)

Step 2
Lets refer to your jboss installation directory, JBOSS_HOME. Go to JBOSS_HOME\server\default\deploy directory and create a new folder, wso2wsas.war.
Now, copy wso2wsas-3.0.1\webapps\ROOT\WEB-INF to JBOSS_HOME\server\default\deploy\wso2wsas.war

Step3
We need to enable https in JBOSS. Therefore, edit JBOSS_HOME\server\default\deploy\jbossweb.sar\server.xml by editing the following entry. (This entry is commented out by default)

<!-- SSL/TLS Connector configuration using the admin devl guide keystore-->
<Connector protocol="HTTP/1.1" SSLEnabled="true"
port="8443" address="${jboss.bind.address}"
scheme="https" secure="true" clientAuth="false"
keystoreFile="C:\wsas\wsas_repo\resources\security\wso2carbon.jks"
keystorePass="wso2carbon" sslProtocol = "TLS" />

Make sure to give the exact location of wso2carbon.jks as highlighted above.

Step 4

We have done the configurations required inJBoss. Now, we must do the necessary configurations in a set of config files shipped with WSO2 WSAS. We will update carbon.xml, axis2.xml, registry.xml and user-mgt.xml which can be found at wsas-repo\conf directory.
First, open carbon.xml and update the ServerURL element as follows.

<ServerURL>https://localhost:8443/wso2wsas/services/</ServerURL>

Note that we have configured tomcat to run on 8443 port.
Save and close carbon.xml.

Open registry.xml and update DB URL as follows.
<url>jdbc:derby:C:/wsas/wsas-repo/database/WSO2CARBON_DB;create=true</url>

Now, open user-mgt.xml and update database URL as follows.

<url>jdbc:derby:C:/wsas/wsas-repo/database/WSO2CARBON_DB;create=true</url>

Make sure to specify the absolute path of the WSO2CARBON_DB in both of the above elements.

It is required to change the contextRoot in the service path of axis2.xml. Change it to wso2wsas.

<parameter name="contextRoot">/wso2wsas</parameter>

We must change the http and https ports in In Transports section of axis2.xml as follows.

<transportReceiver name="http"
class="org.wso2.carbon.core.transports.http.HttpTransportListener">
<parameter name="port">8080</parameter>

</transportReceiver>

<transportReceiver name="https"
class="org.wso2.carbon.core.transports.http.HttpsTransportListener">

<parameter name="port">8443</parameter>
</transportReceiver>

Step 6

We have completed the required configurations. Now, open a new command window and change the directory to JBOSS_HOME/bin.
Define an environment variable called CARBON_HOME and set the path to your wsas-repo directory.

In windows; set CARBON_HOME=C:\wsas\wsas-repo
In linux; export CARBON_HOME=\home\user\wsas\wsas-repo

Start JBoss from the same command window/shell.

WSO2 WSAS will be started successfully. You can access the management console using https:\\localhost:8443\wso2wsas\carbon

Comments

Ramanathan said…
Thank you for the deployment instructions!

Minor Correction:

The repo folder is located at C:\wsas\wsas-repo. Therefore in step3 the keystore file location should be specified as C:\wsas\wsas-repo\resources\security\wso2carbon.jks.
Senaka said…
Hi Charitha,

You also need to copy the wso2wsas-3.0.1\lib\log4j.properties file into wso2wsas.war\WEB-INF\classes, and JBOSS_HOME\common\lib\log4j.jar to wso2wsas.war\WEB-INF.
Charitha said…
Thanks Senaka and Ramanathan
Senaka said…
Hi again, also make it a point to start JBoss with the "-b [IP]" option

ex:- run.bat -b 12.34.56.78 OR ./run.sh -b 12.34.56.78
samashti said…
Hi Charitha ,

I have done the same as you mentioed in above.But I am getting the error description The requested resource (ProxyServlet: /wso2wsas) is not available. while hitting the url https://localhost:8443/wso2wsas/carbon.
Can you tell where is the problem?
Charitha said…
Hi Samashthi,
What is the WSAS version you are using? Also, did you start jboss with -b option as senaka mentioned in the above comment?
i.e- run.bat -b

Regards
Charitha

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