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This article provide details about the Apache Geronimo installation. Here you will find information about what are pre requisite software, where to download Geronimo from and how to customize the installation to use custom ports other than the defaults.
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This article is organized in the following sections:
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Prerequiste software
Apache Geronimo v1.2 builds on J2SE 1.5 using Maven 2, get the appropriate versions from the following sites.
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There are several reasons for changing the network ports, namely to run multiple instances of Geronimo. To configure the default port edit the <geronimo_home>/var/config/config.xml
file. The out-of-the-box config.xml
for Apache Geronimo v1.2 with Tomcat distribution is shown in the following example.
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Here are two excerpts from the config.xml
file, one for Tomcat and one for Jetty. These excerpts show the entire section where the listeners are defined, we have just replaced the standard 8080 with an arbitrary port, 9000 in this case.
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Save the file and restart the server, with the new configuration loaded point your web browser to the new port.
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Open the <geronimo_home>/var/security/groups.properties
file and edit the contents of this file. Add any username that you require and save the file.
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Next, open the <geronimo_home>/var/security/users.properties
file. You can change the password for the existing system account or add new users. When adding new users, the username has to be the same as the ones added to the groups.properties file.
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In this example, two users have been added, user1 and user2 and the default system account has been deleted. Both user1 and user2 can access the console and the command line deployment tools.
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