Sun Java Web Server7 admin site doesnt start!!!

Question

Hi,
i have installed Sun Java Web Server7 3 months ago.
yesterday i was trying to look at the site configuration and wanted to start the server-admin interface.
for some reason when i am running the command admin-server/bin/startserv the command end and return to the shell without any output.
i have looked at the error and access logs after defining the error log level to finest and no output there also.
i run netstat and looked at the process and there isnt any service listening on the management port.
can someone please give me direction on debuging this problem.
thanks in advanced
Edited by: mongaron on Mar 19, 2008 10:52 AM

Answer 1

Hi
What is the version of WebServer you are using. I see admin-server as a service, i guess your version is Web Server 7.0u2 which has SMF support.
During the installation if you have enabled SMF Solaris 10 OS creates SMF service for each instance of Web Server.
Use the stopserv script and try to stop the admin-server and Web Server instances.
Now run the following command svcs | grep admin-server and svcs | grep https. This should not show any services running.
Now start the admin-server using $(Install_dir)/admin-server/bin/startserv and instance using ${install_dir}/<instance-directory>/bin/startserv
Now run the following command svcs | grep admin-server. This should show the following output
online 12:29:07 svc:/network/http:admin-server
online 12:29:07 svc:/network/http:<instance-name>
As you had mentioned in the previous replies it shows online*, which means currently the service in the starting state. Once the service started it will become online.
If there is any problem starting the service, running the command svcs -xv will give the error output why the service went to maintenance. Please try the above and let me know what output you get for the above commands.