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Managing WildFly 8 with the web interface
The web interface is a
Google Web Toolkit
(
GWT
) application, which can be used to
manage a standalone or domain WildFly distribution. The GWT application known in
JBoss AS 7 has been updated to match the new visual theme. It was also extended with
new features, such as role-based security and patching support. By default, it is deployed
on a localhost on the
9990
port; the property that controls the port socket binding is
jboss.management.http.port
, as specified in the server configuration (
stan-
dalone.xml/domain.xml
). The server configuration is given in the following code
snippet:
<socket-binding-group name="standard-sockets"
default-interface="public">
<socket-binding name="management-http"
interface="management"
port="${jboss.management.http.port:9990}"/>
. . . . . . . . .
</socket-binding-group>
Note
Wildfly 8 is secured out of the box and the default security mechanism is based on a user-
name or password, making use of HTTP Digest. The reason for securing the server by de-
fault is that if the management interfaces are accidentally exposed on a public IP address,
authentication is required to connect. For this reason, there is no default user in the distri-
bution.
The users are stored in a properties file called
mgmt-users.properties
under stan-
dalone/configuration or domain/configuration depending on the running mode of the serv-
er. This file contains the username information along with a precalculated hash of the user-
name, plus the name of the realm and user's password.
To manipulate the files and add users, the server has provided utilities such as
add-
user.sh
and
add-user.bat
to add the users and generate hashes. So just execute the
script and follow the guided process. This is shown in the following screenshot:
