Installing Glassfish on Ubuntu

Following my article on setting up Glassfish on Solaris, I found the instructions for setting it up on Ubuntu at the Ubuntu forums. Here is the link Glassfish Server on Ubuntu Server

Installing openssl on 32bit Solaris 10 with gcc

Here is how to install openssl on Solaris 10 running on a 32 bit machine.

Prerequisites:
gcc 3.4.6 installed

Installation steps
1) Download openssl source from http://www.openssl.org/source/
2) Unzip and untar the file. e.g.

gzcat openssl-0.9.8h.tar.gz | tar -xpf -

3) cd to openssl directory e.g.

cd openssl-0.9.8h

4) Run configure e.g.

./Configure -shared solaris-x86-gcc

5) Run make

make

6) Run make install

make install

OpenSSL will then be installed

Installing Glassfish onto Solaris 10

Check the correct version of java is running

* Open a terminal window
* Use bash
type: bash
* Get the version of java
type: java -version
* Check the version is java 1.6 or above

Upgrading java version

* ftp the install package of the JDK to /opt/dropzone
* Give the install execution access
type: chmod a+x jdk-6u10-beta-bin-b24-solaris-i586-14_may_2008.sh
* Install the JDK by running the install script
type: ./jdk-6u10-beta-bin-b24-solaris-i586-14_may_2008.sh
* Check that the installation work by doing a directory listing
type: ls -l
* Move the installation to /usr/jdk/instances
type: mv ./jdk1.6.0_10 /usr/jdk/instances
* Check that in moved successfully
type: ls -l /usr/jdk/instances
* Move the latest symbolic link to point to the new installation
type: rm /usr/jdk/latest; ln -s instances/jdk1.6.0_10 /usr/jdk/latest;
* Check that the latest symbolic link points to the new installation
type: ls -l /usr/jdk/latest
* Move the java symbolic link to point to the new installation
type: rm /usr/java; ln -s jdk/latest /usr/java;
* Check the new java version is being picked up
type: java -version

Copy the relevant deployment of Glassfish to the server

* ftp the install package of Glassfish to /opt/fundamo/dropzone
* Install Glassfish by running the install jar
type: java -Xmx256m -jar glassfish-installer-v2ur2-b04-sunos_x86.jar
* Check that the installation work by doing a directory listing
type: ls -l
* Move the installation to /opt
type: mv ./glassfish /opt
* Change directory to /opt/glassfish
type: cd /opt/glassfish
* Make the ant binaries executable
type: chmod -R +x lib/ant/bin
* Setup the installation for a non-clustered install
type: lib/ant/bin/ant -f setup.xml
o Clustered installations are not covered here, but you should run lib/ant/bin/ant -f setup-cluster.xml
* Move the symbolic link to asadmin to point to the new Glassfish installation
type: rm /usr/sbin/asadmin; ln -s /opt/glassfish/bin/asadmin /usr/sbin/asadmin;

Create the domain

* Go to the glassfish installation directory
type: cd /opt/glassfish
* Create the domain called mydomain that listens on port 80 for HTTP and port 443 for HTTPS. The admin port is port 4848
type: asadmin create-domain --adminport 4848 --domaindir ./domains --profile developer --instanceport 80 --domainproperties http.ssl.port=443 mydomain
* To start and stop the domain use
type: asadmin start-domain mydomain
type: asadmin stop-domain mydomain
* Test the server is running
type: http://<ip address of the server>
type: https://<ip address of the server>
* Configure you application via the administrator console
type: http://<ip address of the server>:4848

Set the domain to run as a service

* Go to the domains glassfish installation directory
type: cd /opt/glassfish/domains/mydomain
* Create a password file called .passwordfile that contain the following lines
AS_ADMIN_USER=<admin username>
AS_ADMIN_PASSWORD=<admin password>
AS_ADMIN_MASTERPASSWORD=changeit
* Create the service
type: asadmin create-service --passwordfile ./domains/mydomain/.passwordfile ./domains/mydomain
* Check the service was created
type: svcs -a | grep mydomain
o You should see output like this
disabled 16:24:09 svc:/application/SUNWappserver/mydomain:default
* Remove the AS_ADMIN_MASTERPASSWORD line from the password file by editing /opt/glassfish/domains/mydomain/.passwordfile (I don't know why, but the service does not start unless you do)
* Enable the service
type: svcadm enable svc:/application/SUNWappserver/mydomain:default
* Check that it is online
type: svcs -a | grep mydomain
o You should see output like this
online* 16:24:09 svc:/application/SUNWappserver/mydomain:default
o If not check the log at
/var/svc/log/application-SUNWappserver-mydomain:default.log