How to run 2 (or more) Wildfly instances on the same machine?
Solution 1
It's possible to duplicate your Wildfly installation folder, but that takes up more space and you would need to update both for every change. Instead it's possible to share the root folder and just create 2 standalones:
- In the installation folder, create new
standalone1
andstandalone2
folders from the default (or use the default as one of them). - In there, in the
deployments
folder you can choose whichever deployments you need. -
For the ports not to conflict, the
configuration/standalone.xml
of one of the standalones must be changed as shown here: change the number from 0 to something else like 200port-offset="${jboss.socket.binding.port-offset:200}
Now go to Eclipse and in the Servers view create a new Server. Give it some suitable name and click next.
- Choose
create new runtime
on the bottom dropdown menu and click next. - Give it a suitable runtime name and in the
Server base directory
choose the standalone folder name you want, likestandalone1
above. - Then just deploy there whichever of the files you need for that particular instance.
Do the same for other instances with different offsets (in the above 1 instance will be at 8080 and the other at 8280).
Solution 2
after doing above Mark suggested method we have to run wildfly
in Windows
standalone.bat -Djboss.server.base.dir=D:/AppServer/wildfly-10.1.0.Final/standalone1
standalone.bat -Djboss.server.base.dir=D:/AppServer/wildfly-10.1.0.Final/standalone2
in Linux
./standalone.sh -Djboss.server.base.dir=/Users/kyle/servers/wildfly-8.2.0.Final/standalone1
./standalone.sh -Djboss.server.base.dir=/Users/kyle/servers/wildfly-8.2.0.Final/standalone2
Mark
Updated on June 15, 2022Comments
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Mark almost 2 years
I want to simulate 2 servers by running 2 independent instances of Wildfly. This is useful when you don't want to deploy all WARs on the same instance and then only be able to shut them down and start them together.
I'm using Eclipse with the JBoss plugin where in the Servers view I want to have 2 Wildfly servers that I can stop and run separately and simultaneously. How do I do that?
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Viny Machado almost 6 yearsI wonder, is this the best approach? I mean, for production enviroments. In case you have more thoughts on that I'd love read about it.
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Mark almost 6 years@vinyoliver I don't know if this is best for production. What alternatives are better?
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Viny Machado over 5 yearsI've ended up doing something pretty close to your answer for production. We have several apps each one running on its own instance of Wildfly and We also have a Nginx server working as reverse proxy. What I usually do is one app per server/instance but this project had this constraint that we had to use the same server for several apps