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Installation Guide

This installation guide provides information on,

  1. the prerequisites for WSO2 WSAS
  2. installation instructions
  3. starting up WSO2 WSAS, and
  4. accessing the management console
This document explains how WSAS should be installed & run in standalone mode

Content

Introduction

WSO2 WSAS 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 WSAS 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 WSAS is distributed under the Apache License, version 2.0. [Download WSO2 WSAS ]

System Requirements

Java Runtime Environment 1.5 or higher (For instructions on setting up the JRE in different operating systems, visithttp://java.sun.com)
Memory 256MB
Disk Approximately 100 MB will be used for the .zip distribution
Operating System Tested on Windows XP, Linux, Mac OS X, Fedora core, Ubuntu, Gentoo
The Management Console requires full Javascript enablement of the Web browser NOTE: On Windows Server 2003, it is not allowed to go below the medium security level in Internet Explorer 6.x. For more details see http://wso2.org/wiki/display/carbon/System+Requirements

Installing WSO2 Web Services Application Server in the Standalone Mode

Installing on Microsoft Windows

Note: The WSO2 WSAS release has been successfully tested only on Windows XP & Windows 2003 server. You can use the install.bat file in the WSAS distribution to install WSAS as a Windows NT service. This installation script is available at CARBON_HOME/bin. Here are the steps: Once you add WSO2 WSAS as an NT service to Windows services, you can start this service from Services in Administrative tools of the Control Panel.



Network service



Check your WSO2 WSAS instance using the URL https://localhost:9443/carbon/

Installing on Linux

  1. Using Binary Distribution

Installing using Binary Distribution

  1. Download the WSO2 WSAS binary distribution.
  2. Extract the zip archive. e.g., unzip wso2wsas-3.0.1.zip -d /opt
  3. Set the JAVA_HOME environment variable to your Java installation using the export command or by editing /etc/profile. e.g., export JAVA_HOME="/opt/j2sdk"
  4. Execute the WSO2 WSAS starting script. e.g., cd /opt/wso2wsas-3.0.1/bin; sh wso2wsas.sh
  5. Check your WSO2 WSAS instance using the URL https://localhost:9443/carbon/

Troubleshooting Installation

When trying to execute the WSO2 WSAS binary from a shell, e.g., /usr/bin/wso2wsas (after WSO2 WSAS , v has been installed), if the error message 'Permission denied' pops up, then check the file permission of the run.sh script and set the execution permission.

Remove Installation

On MS Windows systems, to remove the WSAS Windows NT service;

Accessing the Management Console

Once WSO2 WSAS 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 as displayed below. Note: By default, WSO2 WSAS 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 WSAS Management Console see the User Guide