Page Comparison

To run WSO2 products, you start the product server at the command line. You can then run access the Management Console application to configure and manage the product. This page describes The following sections describe how to run the product in the following sections:

Info
The Management Console uses the default HTTP-NIO transport, which is configured in the `catalina-server.xml` file in the `<PRODUCT_HOME>/repository/conf/tomcat` directory. This transport must be properly configured in this file for the Management Console to be accessible.

...

.

Table of Contents

maxLevel	3

Starting the server

To start the server, you run the script run <PRODUCT_HOME>/bin/wso2server.bat (on Windows) or <PRODUCT_HOME>/bin/wso2server.sh (on Linux/Solaris/Mac OS) from the bin folderthe command prompt as described below. Alternatively, you can install and run the server as a Windows service.

...

a Windows or Linux service (see the related topics section at the end of this page).

Open a command prompt :by following the instructions below.

On Windows, choose : Click Start -> Run Run, type type cmd at the prompt, and press then press Enter.
On Linux/Solaris, establish a /Mac OS: Establish an SSH connection to the server or , log into in to the text Linux console, or open a terminal window.

Execute one of the following commands, where <PRODUCT_HOME> is the directory where you installed the product distribution:OSCommandOn Windows:

To start the server in a typical environment:
- On Windows: <PRODUCT_HOME>\bin\wso2server.bat --run
- On Linux/Solaris/Mac OS: sh <PRODUCT_HOME>/bin/wso2server.sh

sh

To start the server in the background mode of Linux: sh <PRODUCT_HOME>/bin/wso2server.sh

Info

If you want to

start
To stop the server running in this mode, you will enter: sh <PRODUCT_HOME>/bin/wso2server.sh stop
To provide access to the production environment without allowing any user group (including admin) to log into the

management console, execute one of the following commands.

Management Console:
- On Windows: <PRODUCT_HOME>\bin\wso2server.bat --run -DworkerNode
- On Linux/Solaris/Mac OS: sh <PRODUCT_HOME>/bin/wso2server.sh -DworkerNode

For

You can set permanently set the -DworkerNode system property to 'true' in your product startup script. When you execute the product startup script, the worker profile will be started automatically.
Code Block
'-DworkerNode=false'
To check for additional options you can use with

these

the startup commands,

type

type -help after the command, such as:
sh <PRODUCT_HOME>/bin/wso2server.sh -help (see the related topics section at the end of this page).

The operation log appears in the command window. When the product server is runninghas successfully started, the log displays the message "WSO2 Carbon started in 'n' seconds"."

...

Accessing the Management Console

Once the server has started, you can run the Management Console by opening typing its URL in a Web browser and typing in the management console's URL. The URL is displayed as the last line . The following sections provide more information about running the Management Console:

Table of Contents

minLevel	5

Working with the URL

The URL appears next to “Mgt Console URL” in the start script 's console and loglog that is displayed in the command window. For example:

Image RemovedImage Added

The URL should be in the following format: https://<Server Host>:9443/carbon

You can use this URL to access the Management Console on this computer from any other computer connected to the Internet or LAN. When accessing the Management Console from the same server where it 's is installed, you can type "localhost" instead type localhost instead of the IP address as follows: https://localhost:9443/carbon

You can change the Management Console URL by modifying the value of the <MgtHostName> property in the <PRODUCT_HOME>/repository/conf/carbon.xml file. When the host is internal or not resolved by a DNS, map the hostname alias to its IP address in the /etc/hosts file of your system, and then enter that alias as the value of the <MgtHostName> property in carbon.xml. For example:

Code Block
In /etc/hosts: 127.0.0.1 localhost In carbon.xml: <MgtHostName>localhost</MgtHostName>

Signing in

At the sign-in screen, you can sign in to the Management Console using admin as both the username and password

...

.

To view information about a particular page, click the Help link in the top right corner of that page , or click the Docs link to open this documentation for full information on managing the product.

Info
When the Management Console

...

sign-in page appears, the

...

Web browser

...

typically

...

displays an "insecure connection" message, which requires your confirmation before you can continue.

The Management Console is based on the HTTPS protocol, which is a combination of HTTP and SSL protocols. This protocol is generally used to encrypt the traffic from the client to server for security reasons. The certificate it works with is used for encryption only, and does not prove the server identity. Therefore,

...

when you try to access the Management Console, a warning of untrusted connection is usually displayed. To continue working with this certificate, some steps should be taken to "accept" the certificate before access to the site is permitted. If you are using the Mozilla Firefox browser, this usually occurs only on the first access to the server, after which the certificate is stored in the browser database and marked as trusted.

...

With other browsers, the insecure connection warning might be displayed every time you access the server.

This scenario is suitable for testing purposes, or for running the program on the company's internal networks. If you want to make the Management Console available to external users, your organization should obtain a certificate signed by a well-known certificate authority, which verifies that the server actually has the name it is accessed by and that this server actually belongs to the given organization.

Getting help

The tabs and menu items in the navigation pane on the left may vary depending on the features you have installed. To view information about a particular page, click the Help link at the top right corner of that page, or click the Docs link to open the documentation for full information on managing the product.

Configuring the session time-out

If you leave the Management Console unattended

...

for a defined time, its login session will time out. The default timeout value is 15 minutes, but you can change this

...

in the <PRODUCT_HOME>/repository/conf/tomcat/carbon/WEB-INF/web.xml file as follows

...

.

Code Block

language	html/xml

<session-config>
   <session-timeout>15</session-timeout>
</session-config>

Restricting access to the Management Console and Web applications

You can restrict access to the Management Console of your product by binding the Management Console with selected IP addresses. You can either restrict access to the Management Console only, or you can restrict access to all Web applications in your server as explained below.

To control access only to the Management Console, add the IP addresses to the <PRODUCT_HOME>/repository/conf/tomcat/carbon/META-INF/context.xml file as follows:
Code Block
<Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.RemoteAddrValve" allow="<IP-address-01>|<IP-address-02>|<IP-address-03>"/>
The RemoteAddrValve Tomcat valve defined in this file only applies to the Management Console, and thereby all outside requests to the Management Console are blocked.

...

To control access to all Web applications deployed in your server, add the IP addresses to the <PRODUCT_HOME>/repository/conf/context.xml file as follows.
Code Block
<Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.RemoteAddrValve" allow="<IP-address-01>|<IP-address-02>|<IP-address-03>"/>
The RemoteAddrValve Tomcat valve defined in this file applies to each Web application hosted on the WSO2 product server. Therefore, all outside requests to any Web application are blocked.

You can also restrict access to particular servlets in a Web application by adding a Remote Address Filter to the <PRODUCT_HOME>/repository/conf/tomcat/web.xml file and by mapping that filter to the servlet URL. In the Remote Address Filter that you add, you can specify the IP addresses that should be allowed to access the servlet. The following example from a web.xml file illustrates how access to the Management Console page (/carbon/admin/login.jsp) is granted only to one IP address.

Code Block

<filter>
    <filter-name>Remote Address Filter</filter-name>
    <filter-class>org.apache.catalina.filters.RemoteAddrFilter</filter-class>
        <init-param>
            <param-name>allow</param-name>
            <param-value>127.0.01</param-value>
        </init-param>
</filter>

<filter-mapping>
    <filter-name>Remote Address Filter</filter-name>
    <url-pattern>/carbon/admin/login.jsp</url-pattern>
</filter-mapping>

Info
Any configurations (including valves defined in the `<PRODUCT_HOME>/repository/conf/tomcat/catalina-server.xml` file) apply to all Web applications and are globally available across the server, regardless of the host or cluster. For more information about using remote host filters, see the Apache Tomcat documentation.

Stopping the server

To stop the server, press Ctrl+C in the command window, or click the Shutdown/Restart link in the navigation pane in the Management Console. If you started the server in background mode in Linux, enter the following command instead:

sh <PRODUCT_HOME>/bin/wso2server.sh stop

Versions Compared

Old Version 2

New Version Current

Key