Installing and running

This document provide details about the Apache Geronimo installation and planning. Here you will find information about what are the prerequisite software, where to download Geronimo from, how to customize the installation to use custom ports other than the defaults and how to start/stop Geronimo.

In this document you will also find details about the installation and configuration of different topologies such as 2-tier with remote Web server.

This document is organized in the following sections:

• Installing and running
  • Installing prerequisite software
  • Getting and installting Geronimo
    • Building Geronimo from source
      • Building Geronimo with Maven
      • Building Geronimo from Eclipse
  • Installing Geronimo
    • Installing Geronimo from binaries
  • Initial configuration
    • Available configuration files
    • Changing the default port numbers
    • Changing the username and password
  • Starting and stopping the server
    • Starting and stopping Geronimo via console
    • Starting and Stopping Geronimo in GShell
  • Running Geronimo
    • Running Geronimo as a non-root user
    • Running multiple Geronimo instances
    • Running Geronimo as a Windows, or UINX service