Can not access admin console of jboss eap 6 at standalone mode

Question

I've installed Jboss eap 6.1 in a micro instance of amazon ec2 server. I've run the standalone.sh and that seems to be running fine:

[ec2-user@ip-******** bin]$ ./standalone.sh 
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  JBoss Bootstrap Environment

  JBOSS_HOME: /home/ec2-user/jboss-eap-6.1

  JAVA: /usr/lib/jvm/java/bin/java

  JAVA_OPTS:  -server -XX:+UseCompressedOops -Xms64m -Xmx86m -XX:MaxPermSize=64m -Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true -Djboss.modules.system.pkgs=org.jboss.byteman -Djava.awt.headless=true

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20:58:47,062 INFO  [org.jboss.modules] (main) JBoss Modules version 1.2.0.Final-redhat-1
20:58:47,506 INFO  [org.jboss.msc] (main) JBoss MSC version 1.0.4.GA-redhat-1
20:58:47,745 INFO  [org.jboss.as] (MSC service thread 1-2) JBAS015899: JBoss EAP 6.1.0.GA (AS 7.2.0.Final-redhat-8) starting
20:58:50,396 INFO  [org.xnio] (MSC service thread 1-2) XNIO Version 3.0.7.GA-redhat-1
20:58:50,426 INFO  [org.xnio.nio] (MSC service thread 1-2) XNIO NIO Implementation Version 3.0.7.GA-redhat-1
.......
20:58:52,215 INFO  [org.jboss.ws.common.management] (MSC service thread 1-2) JBWS022052: Starting JBoss Web Services - Stack CXF Server 4.1.3.Final-redhat-3
20:58:53,245 INFO  [org.apache.coyote.http11] (MSC service thread 1-1) JBWEB003001: Coyote HTTP/1.1 initializing on : 127.0.0.1:8080
20:58:53,272 INFO  [org.apache.coyote.http11] (MSC service thread 1-1) JBWEB003000: Coyote HTTP/1.1 starting on: 127.0.0.1:8080
20:58:54,125 INFO  [org.jboss.as.remoting] (MSC service thread 1-2) JBAS017100: Listening on 127.0.0.1:9999
20:58:54,174 INFO  [org.jboss.as.server.deployment.scanner] (MSC service thread 1-2) JBAS015012: Started FileSystemDeploymentService for directory /home/ec2-user/jboss-eap-6.1/standalone/deployments
20:58:54,174 INFO  [org.jboss.as.connector.subsystems.datasources] (MSC service thread 1-2) JBAS010400: Bound data source [java:jboss/datasources/ExampleDS]
20:58:54,180 INFO  [org.jboss.as.remoting] (MSC service thread 1-2) JBAS017100: Listening on 127.0.0.1:4447
20:58:54,510 INFO  [org.jboss.as] (Controller Boot Thread) JBAS015961: Http management interface listening on 127.0.0.1:9990/management
20:58:54,512 INFO  [org.jboss.as] (Controller Boot Thread) JBAS015951: Admin console listening on 127.0.0.1:9990
20:58:54,512 INFO  [org.jboss.as] (Controller Boot Thread) JBAS015874: JBoss EAP 6.1.0.GA (AS 7.2.0.Final-redhat-8) started in 8410ms - Started 123 of 177 services (53 services are passive or on-demand)

However, when I tried to access the admin console at: myhostname:8080 it gives a "could not connect" error.

I am sure the port 8080 and 9990 are both open as I've installed jboss-as 7.1 and was able to access the admin console of that through myhostname:8080... Then I stop the service of jboss-as 7.1 and started jboss-eap-6.1 and tried to access it...

Any help will be greatly appreciated!

Answer 1

It looks like the management console is only listening on 127.0.0.1.

20:58:54,512 INFO  [org.jboss.as] (Controller Boot Thread) JBAS015951: Admin console listening on 127.0.0.1:9990

You can change it by editing the standalone.xml or using the -bmanagement 0.0.0.0 parameter. You can replace 0.0.0.0 with the public IP.