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This document explains how AppServer should be installed & run in standalone mode
WSO2 Application Server in Standalone Mode
WSO2 AppServer is a lightweight application server for Web services. It is built on the Apache Axis2 framework and incorporates leading open source components into a simple, easy-to-use, and highly performant package. Web services specifications support include WS-Addressing, WS-Policy, WS-ReliableMessaging, WS-Security and more, giving a fully secure, transactional and reliable infrastructure.
WSO2 AppServer is distributed in several convenient distribution packages, and can be installed either as a standalone server or as part of a J2EE compliant servlet container. WSO2 AppServer is distributed under the Apache License, version 2.0.
Java Runtime Environment | 1.6.x (1.6.0_24 onwards recommended for production) - For instructions on setting up the JRE in different operating systems, visit http://java.sun.com |
Memory | 1 GB minimum. A heap size of around 512MB is generally sufficient to process typical SOAP messages. Requirements may vary with larger message size and on the number of messages processed concurrently |
Disk | Approximately 180 MB will be used for the .zip distribution (Excluding log files and databases) |
Operating System | Tested on Windows 2008 Server, Linux, Mac OS X, Fedora core, Ubuntu, Gentoo (Linux/Solaris is recommended for a production deployment) |
Web Browser | To start Management console. Mozilla Firefox 3.x, MS Internet Explorer 7 or higher |
Apache Maven | To build samples. Maven 2.1.0 or higher |
Apache Ant | To build samples. Ant 1.7.0 or higher |
For more details see
http://wso2.org/wiki/display/carbon/System+Requirements
Here are the steps:
You can use the install.bat file in the AppServer distribution to install AppServer as a Windows NT service. This installation script is available at CARBON_HOME/bin. Once you add WSO2 AppServer as an NT service to Windows services, you can start this service from Services in Administrative tools of the Control Panel.
The following steps will take you through the binary distribution installation on Unix/Linux systems.
On MS Windows systems, to remove the AppServer Windows NT service;
Once WSO2 AppServer has been successfully installed, in order to access the Management Console, first start the server, launch a web browser instance, and then point it to the URL https://localhost:9443/carbon/ (if you are using the default settings). This will take you to the "Sign In" page of the Management Console.
Note:
By default, WSO2 AppServer has two listeners, HTTP and
HTTPS. The HTTP listener opens on port 9763, while the HTTPS listener opens
on port 9443. The administrator functions are exposed only via the HTTPS
port.
For details on WSO2 AppServer Management Console see the User Guide .