Manual Installation of Glassfish from Zip file on Ubuntu Server

You can use this guide to manually install the glassfish on Ubuntu 12.04 Server

1)      Visit https://glassfish.java.net/download.html to download the latest tomcat installer

2)      Unzip it with tar -zxvf glassfishxxx.zip

                          unzip glassfish-3.1.2.zip

Note:

          If required, you should install zip using apt-get install zip

3)      Move the folder contents to required directory. In my case it is /app/glassfish directory

4)      Now create a user glassfish to run the glassfish service under this username. Also change the directory permissions to tomcat

#useradd glassfish

Or

#adduser glassfish

#chown -R glassfish: glassfish /app/glassfish

# chmod 775 –R /app/glassfish

5)      Check whether java is already installed by sung this command

#java –version

If it is not installed, then refer this post to install JDK or refer this post to install JRE

6)      Create a file called glassfish in the following path /etc/init.d/ to create glassfish service file. It should have the following lines in it

GF_USER=glassfish GF_HOME=/app/glassfish ASADMIN=$GF_HOME/bin/asadmin case "$1" in start)          echo "starting glassfish from $GF_HOME"          sudo -u  $GF_USER authbind --deep $ASADMIN start-domain     ;; stop)          echo "stopping glassfish from $GF_HOME"          sudo -u  $GF_USER authbind --deep  $ASADMIN stop-domain     ;; status)          gf_id=$(ps -ef | grep /app/glassfish/glassfish/domains/domain1/ | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}' | head -n 1)          if [ -n "$gf_id" ]          then                  echo "Glassfish is Running with PID:" $gf_id          else                  echo "Glassfish is not Running......."          fi     ;; *)     echo "usage: $0 (start|stop|status|help)"     exit 3     ;; esac

Note:
Install authbind if required by typing apt-get install authbind

7)      Finally apply 0755 permissions to glassfish file in /etc/init.d/ directory

#chown -R glassfish:glassfish /etc/init.d/glassfish  #chmod 775 /etc/init.d/glassfish

8)      Now you can start the glassfish using any of the following commands

# /etc/init.d/glassfish start

9)      To link the service in desired run levels in Ubuntu server, install the following utility

#apt-get install sysv-rc-conf

10)   Then open the utility and enable the glassfish service in all run levels as shown in the screenshot

# sysv-rc-conf

11)   Done, glassfish is ready for use. You can refer the below blog to enable admin access to glassfish admin console.

https://blogs.oracle.com/dipol/entry/glassfish_3_1_2_secure