Glassfish Open Source Edition

Glassfish Open Source installation step by step procedure

Create User Account

  #Create new user     
sudo adduser --home /home/glassfish --system --shell /bin/bash glassfish

#Create new user group      
sudo groupadd glassfishadmin

#Assign glassfish user to glassfishadmin group    
sudo usermod -a -G glassfishadmin glassfish

Configure Java

#Remove openjdk if installed
sudo apt-get remove openjdk-6-jre openjdk-6-jdk

#Remove sun's jdk if installed
sudo apt-get remove sun-java6-jdk  sun-java6-jre

#Remove unwanted automatically installed packages
sudo apt-get autoremove

sudo apt-get autoclean

#Extract jdk 7 tar file
tar -xvf jdk-7u7-linux-x64.tar.gz

#Remove previous jdk 7 installations
rm -rf /usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.7

#If jvm folder doesn't exist, create a new one
sudo mkdir /usr/lib/jvm

#Move extracted files
sudo mv ./jdk1.7 /usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.7
sudo chgrp -R root /usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.7

sudo chown -R root /usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.7

#Update alternatives
sudo update-alternatives --install "/usr/bin/java" "java" "/usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.7/bin/java" 1
sudo update-alternatives --install "/usr/bin/javac" "javac" "/usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.7/bin/javac" 1
sudo update-alternatives --install "/usr/bin/javaws" "javaws" "/usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.7/bin/javaws" 1

sudo update-alternatives --config java

#Check jdk installation
cd /etc/alternatives

ls -lrt java*

#Setting environment variables JAVA_HOMEfor all users(only for bash)
sudo nano /etc/bash.bashrc
#append the following lines:
export GLASSFISH_HOME=/home/glassfish
export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.7

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

#Setting JAVA_HOME and AS_JAVA for everyone
sudo nano /etc/environment
#append the following lines:
JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.7

AS_JAVA=/usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.7

#Finally check the installation in /etc/alternatives directoy

cd /etc/alternatives

ls -lrt java*

Glassfish installation

#switch over to glassfish user account

sudo su glassfish

#Change to home directory of glassfish

cd /home/glassfish/

#Create downloads directory 

mkdir downloads

#Go to downloads directory

cd /home/glassfish/downloads/

#Download and install glassfish 3.1.2

unzip glassfish-3.1.2.zip

#Move extracted contents to glassfish home directory

mv /home/glassfish/downloads/glassfish3.1.2/* /home/glassfish/

#Exit from glassfish user

exit

#change group of glassfish home directory to glassfishadmin

sudo chgrp -R glassfishadmin /home/glassfish

#change owner of glassfish home directory to glassfish

sudo chown -R glassfish /home/glassfish

#make sure the files are executable/modifyable/readable for owner and group

sudo chmod -R ug+rwx /home/glassfish/bin/

sudo chmod -R ug+rwx /home/glassfish/glassfish/bin/

#others are not allowed to execute/modify/read them

sudo chmod -R o-rwx /home/glassfish/bin/

sudo chmod -R o-rwx /home/glassfish/glassfish/bin/

#Now you can start and stop glassfish

#Switch over to glassfish user

sudo su glassfish

#Start glassfish

/home/glassfish/bin/asadmin start-domain domain1

#Stop glassfish

/home/glassfish/bin/asadmin stop-domain domain1

#Exit

exit

Configure glassfish init script

#Now you need an init script to automatically start glassfish on system reboot.

#Create init script

sudo nano /etc/init.d/glassfish

#(paste the lines below into the file and save it)

#! /bin/sh

export AS_JAVA=/usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.7

GLASSFISHPATH=/home/glassfish/bin

case "$1" in

start)

echo "starting glassfish from $GLASSFISHPATH"

sudo -u glassfish $GLASSFISHPATH/asadmin start-domain domain1

;;

restart)

$0 stop

$0 start

;;

stop)

echo "stopping glassfish from $GLASSFISHPATH"

sudo -u glassfish $GLASSFISHPATH/asadmin stop-domain domain1

;;

*)

echo $"usage: $0 {start|stop|restart}"

exit 3

;;

esac

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#To start this init script automatically issue the following commands

#Make the init script executable

sudo chmod a+x /etc/init.d/glassfish

#configure Glassfish for autostart on linux boot

sudo update-rc.d glassfish defaults

#if apache2 is installed, remove that from startup

#stopping apache2

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 stop

#removing apache2 from autostart

update-rc.d -f apache2 remove

#Now we can start glassfish easily be the following commands

#start

/etc/init.d/glassfish start

#stop

/etc/init.d/glassfish stop

#restart

/etc/init.d/glassfish restart