App server related topics

JBoss

JBoss treats WAR files differently than other application servers in ways that severely affect the OpenCms installation procedure. To circumvent the problem, OpenCms has to be deployed as an unpacked WAR directory on JBoss.

Procedure:

1. Extract opencms.war from the downloaded archive and copy it to the JBoss deploy directory
2. Rename opencms.war to prevent naming confusion for the next step (example: opencms.2.war)
3. Create a directory named "opencms.war"
4. Unpack opencms.2.war in the opencms.war directory
5. (Optional, for unix/linux servers) grant the permission to read, write and execute for all on the opencms.war/ directory and it's subtree (chmod -R 777 opencms.war)

After these steps, the web config should work fine.

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