...How to setup JBoss EAP with RHEL 7 (systemd linuxes)

JBoss EAP (or Wildfly) has an init.d script that does not play well with systemd startup systems. To configure it, it is as easy as following this simple steps.

1- Create a group and user for the JBoss EAP process (username, uid, gid, and home to your preferences)

groupadd -r jboss -g 1000
useradd -u 1000 -r -g jboss -m -d /opt/jboss -s /sbin/nologin -c "JBoss user" jboss

2- Create the home folder for the user

chown -R jboss:jboss /opt/jboss

3- Create configuration directory for the JBoss EAP instance, create the configuration file for the EAP instance (of course, your values here), and then set appropriate permissions for the used folders.

mkdir /etc/jboss-as

cat > /etc/jboss-as/jboss-as.conf <<EOF
JBOSS_USER=jboss
STARTUP_WAIT=30
SHUTDOWN_WAIT=30
JBOSS_CONSOLE_LOG=/var/log/jboss-as/console.log
JBOSS_HOME=/usr/share/jboss-as/jboss-eap-6.X
EOF

mkdir /var/log/jboss-as
mkdir /var/run/jboss-as
chown -R jboss:jboss /var/log/jboss-as
chown -R jboss:jboss /var/run/jboss-as

4- Create the service file

cat > /etc/systemd/system/jboss-as-standalone.service <<EOF
[Unit]
Description=Jboss Application Server
After=syslog.target network.target

[Service]
Type=forking
ExecStart=/usr/share/jboss-as/bin/init.d/jboss-as-standalone.sh start
ExecStop=/usr/share/jboss-as/bin/init.d/jboss-as-standalone.sh stop

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOF

5- Restart the systemctl daemon, start the service, verify it’s status and enable the service

systemctl daemon-reload
systemctl start jboss-as-standalone.service
systemctl status jboss-as-standalone.service
systemctl enable jboss-as-standalone.service

6- Additionally, if you need to create a firewalld rules for the EAP, do:

cat > /etc/firewalld/services/jboss-as-standalone.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<service version="1.0">
     <short>jboss-as-standalone</short>
     <port port="8080" protocol="tcp"/>
     <port port="8443" protocol="udp"/>
     <port port="8009" protocol="tcp"/>
     <port port="4447" protocol="tcp"/>
     <port port="9990" protocol="udp"/>
     <port port="9999" protocol="tcp"/>
</service>
EOF

firewall-cmd --zone=public --add-service=jboss-as-standalone
firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=public --add-service=jboss-as-standalone
firewall-cmd --zone=public --list-services
firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=public --list-services