JBoss 7 – Change Port Number on Runtime

There may be cases some times to change the Port number when Server is running. This may be due to an external service trying to access a JBoss service running on a port which was is configured on different port. During this case it will help if we change the port number running the service to the one that the external service uses. This article tells you on how to change the port during runtime

C:\Users\mjagadish\EAP-6.4.0\bin>jboss-cli.bat

You are disconnected at the moment. Type 'connect' to connect to the server or '

help' for the list of supported commands.

 [disconnected /] connect localhost:10999

[standalone@localhost:10999 /] cd /socket-binding-group=standard-sockets/socket-binding=http

[standalone@localhost:10999 socket-binding=http] ls -l

ATTRIBUTE VALUE TYPE

bound true BOOLEAN

bound-address 127.0.0.1 STRING

bound-port 9080 INT

client-mappings undefined LIST

fixed-port false BOOLEAN

interface undefined STRING

multicast-address undefined STRING

multicast-port undefined INT

name http STRING

port 8080 INT

Gives us the details of the HTTP port and services that are running.

[standalone@localhost:10999 socket-binding=http] :write-attribute(name="port",value="8180")

{

"outcome" => "success",

"response-headers" => {

"operation-requires-reload" => true,

"process-state" => "reload-required"

}

}

We use the write attribute to change the Port number from 8080 to 8180.Once done use the list command to see the changed values

[standalone@localhost:10999 socket-binding=http] ls -l

ATTRIBUTE VALUE TYPE

bound true BOOLEAN

bound-address 127.0.0.1 STRING

bound-port 9080 INT

client-mappings undefined LIST

fixed-port false BOOLEAN

interface undefined STRING

multicast-address undefined STRING

multicast-port undefined INT

name http STRING

port 8180 INT

Now once the changes are done, they will not be reflected until we reload the configuration. This is done using the reload command as

[standalone@localhost:10999 socket-binding=http] cd /

[standalone@localhost:10999 /] reload

Now check the Port by accessing an application running on that.