Prerequisites

• An Amazon EC2 subscriptionI;

• A pre-configured Security Group which allows incoming requests on ports 22 and 8080.

Launch JBoss Enterprise Application Platform

1. In the 'Navigation' pane, click on "Launch Instance";

2. Find and select a Jboss Enterprise Web Server AMI according to Configure and launch AMI;

3. Click in the "User Data:" field and enter the following lines:

   JBOSSAS_ADMIN_PASSWORD=<your password for opening admin console>
   JBOSS_IP=0.0.0.0 #listen on all IPs and interfaces
   cat> $USER_SCRIPT << "EOF"
   ## Deploy your application from an Internet URL
   # wget https://<your secure storage hostname>/<path>/<app name>.war -O /var/lib/jbossas/server/$JBOSSCONF/deploy/
   
   # deploy sample application from the local filesystem
   cp /usr/share/java/jboss-ec2-eap-samples/hello-1.0.war /var/lib/jbossas/server/$JBOSSCONF/deploy/hello.war
   EOF

4. continue with the instructions from Configure and launch AMI;

5. Wait until the instance's status is shown as "running"

Test JBoss Enterprise Application Server

1. In the instance details pane, note the instance's "Public DNS";

2. In a browser, navigate to http://<public-DNS>:8080/hello;

3. Confirm that the text "Hello World!" appears, otherwise refer to the Troubleshooting section below;

4. In a browser, navigate to http://<public-DNS>:8080;

5. Confirm that the JBoss Enterprise Application Platform home page appears, including a hyperlink to the Admin Console;

6. Click on the "Admin Console" hyperlink and log in with the username "admin" and the password you entered in the 'User Data" field;

7. Logout of the JBoss Enterprise Administration Platform Admin Console.

If this is to be a production instance, add the following command under USER_SCRIPT in user data field, to ensure that security updates are applied on boot:

yum -y update