Running WildFly as a systemd service on Ubuntu

[Vlad]

Has anyone been successful in setting this up? I've followed the instructions in $WILDFLY_HOME/docs/contrib/scripts/systemd to a tee, but to no avail. Although, I've added the following line to my /etc/systemd/system/wildfly.service file:

[Service]
Type=forking

And I get the following errors when running `sudo systemctl status wildfly.service` after the `sudo systemctl start wildfly.service` command:

● wildfly.service - The WildFly Application Server
 Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/wildfly.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
 Active: failed (Result: protocol) since Mon 2018-05-14 17:44:53 EDT; 29min ago
 Process: 5943 ExecStart=/JavaPrograms/wildfly/current/bin/launch.sh $WILDFLY_MODE $WILDFLY_CONFIG $WILDFLY_BIND (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
 Main PID: 4535 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)

May 14 17:44:53 prod-1 systemd[1]: Starting The WildFly Application Server...
May 14 17:44:53 prod-1 systemd[1]: wildfly.service: Can't open PID file /var/run/wildfly/wildfly.pid (yet?) after start: No such file or directory
May 14 17:44:53 prod-1 systemd[1]: wildfly.service: Failed with result 'protocol'.
May 14 17:44:53 prod-1 systemd[1]: Failed to start The WildFly Application Server.

Without Type=forking instruction, everything seemed to run fine, but `sudo systemctl status wildfly.service` would indicate that the service is inactive:

● wildfly.service - The WildFly Application Server
 Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/wildfly.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
 Active: inactive (dead) since Mon 2018-05-14 18:18:48 EDT; 4s ago
 Process: 6237 ExecStart=/JavaPrograms/wildfly/current/bin/launch.sh $WILDFLY_MODE $WILDFLY_CONFIG $WILDFLY_BIND (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
 Main PID: 6237 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)

May 14 18:18:48 prod-1 systemd[1]: Started The WildFly Application Server

This is on Ubuntu 18.04.

Any insight would be appreciated!

[Nicolas Pasini]

Hi,

wildfly.service: Can't open PID file /var/run/wildfly/wildfly.pid

Does your /var/run/wildfly/ directory exist?

If so, maybe permission issues?

Regards,

Nicolás