Starting a server

When you are ready to test your projects, start a server. In some situations, listed below, the server tools start a server for you automatically. For more information on which test server will start, refer to the list of related topics at the end of this topic.

Prerequisites:

• Create a server

• If you are trying to run the WebSphere® Application Server other than the integrated test environment as a non-root user ID, this might fail. By default, WAS uses the root user ID to run the server. A non-root user profile needs to be created by the root user. Depending on the assignment of profile directory ownership completed by the installer, a non-root user can create a profile, start WAS, or do both.

  • For WAS v7.0.x, see the Creating profiles for non-root users topic

  • For WAS v6.1.x, see the Creating profiles for non-root users topic

  • For WAS v6.0.x, see the Creating profiles for non-root users topic
  found in the WAS Information Center.

• (Restriction) Start a remote WAS using the development environment is not supported. To start a remote WAS, you have to start the server on the remote machine. If you want to start the server in start, debug or run mode, you have the following options:

  • Use the WebSphere administrative console to set the correct VM parameters, for example, the debug or profile parameters.

  • Start the WAS on the remote machine. After the server is started on the remote machine, on the Servers view of the workbench, right-click the server and select

    Restart | Debug,

    Restart | Profile , or

    Restart | Run to restart the server in the mode that you want.

Once you have started the server you can test the projects that are associated with the server. You can stop and restart the server at any time. The status of the server is displayed in the

Status column of the Servers view.

To manually start a server:

1. Switch to the Servers view.

2. In the Servers view, right-click the server you want to start.

3. Select

   Start. The following things happen:

   • If you have selected the

     Automatically publish when starting servers check box on the Server preferences page (

     Window | Preferences | Server | Launching ), the workbench checks to see if your project and files on the server are synchronized prior to starting the server. If they are not, the project and the files are automatically updated on the remote server when it is started.

   • A Console view opens in the workbench. It will take a minute to start the server. If the server fails to start, check for the reason that it failed in the Console.

   • In the

     Status column of the Servers view, the status of the server changes to Started.

Tip: The server is automatically started when you right-click on a file and then select

Run As > Run on Server.

 

Related tasks

Starting a server in debug mode

Starting a server in profiling mode

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