How to Enable JBoss AS 7 to Accept Remote Connections

By Default, when you install and configure JBoss AS 7, the management port 8080 can be accessed only by launching a browser from the system where you’ve installed the Jboss, and going to http://localhost:8080 or http://127.0.0.1:8080

When you connect to the Jboss AS 7 from a remote machine, using the ip-address, it will not work. i.e http://{ip-address}:8080 will not work.

To solve this problem, follow any one of the methods mentioned in this article to enable remote connections to the Jboss AS 7 server.

In these example, let us assume that the ip-address where the JBoss server is running is 192.168.101.1

Method 1: Modify the standalone.xml file

Modify the $JBOSS_HOME/standalone/configuration/standalone.xml file and change the 127.0.0.1 to to the ip-address that you like.

Before:

  <interfaces>
        <interface name="management">
            <inet-address value="${jboss.bind.address.management:127.0.0.1}"/>
        </interface>
        <interface name="public">
            <inet-address value="${jboss.bind.address:127.0.0.1}"/>
        </interface>

After:

  <interfaces>
        <interface name="management">
            <inet-address value="${jboss.bind.address.management:192.168.101.1}"/>
        </interface>
        <interface name="public">
            <inet-address value="${jboss.bind.address:192.168.101.1}"/>
        </interface>

Or, you can just allow any IPv4 using <any-ipv4-address/> as shown below to specify the ip-address.

<interfaces>
    <interface name="management">
       <any-ipv4-address/>
	   </interface>
    <interface name="public">
       <any-ipv4-address/>
    </interface>

Restart the JBoss AS after the above change.

Method 2: Use standlone.sh -b Option

While staring the Jboss AS 7, you can use the -b option as shown below.

$JBOSS_HOME/bin/standalone.sh -b 192.168.101.1

Any one of the following format will work:

$JBOSS_HOME/bin/standalone.sh -b 192.168.101.1

$JBOSS_HOME/bin/standalone.sh -b=192.168.101.1

$JBOSS_HOME/bin/standalone.sh -b127.0.0.1=192.168.101.1

Method 3: Change it from UI

From the server console, launch the Jboss GUI from http://127.0.0.1:8080, and click on “Profile” -> General Configuration -> Interfaces.

From here, you can change the ip-address of the management and public interfaces. Restart the JBoss AS after this change.