Chapter 1. Introduction
1.1. About the Red Hat Customer Portal
The Red Hat Customer Portal is the centralized platform for Red Hat knowledge and subscription resources. Use the Red Hat Customer Portal to do the following:
- Manage and maintain Red Hat entitlements and support contracts.
- Download officially-supported software.
- Access product documentation and the Red Hat Knowledgebase.
- Contact Global Support Services.
- File bugs against Red Hat products.
The Customer Portal is available here: https://access.redhat.com.
1.2. About the Use of EAP_HOME in this Document
In this document, the variable EAP_HOME is used to denote the path to the JBoss EAP installation. Replace this variable with the actual path to your JBoss EAP installation.
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If you installed JBoss EAP using the ZIP install method, the install directory is the
jboss-eap-7.3directory where you extracted the ZIP archive. -
If you installed JBoss EAP using the RPM install method, the install directory is
/opt/rh/eap7/root/usr/share/wildfly/. If you used the installer to install JBoss EAP, the default path for
EAP_HOMEis${user.home}/EAP-7.3.0:-
For Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Solaris:
/home/USER_NAME/EAP-7.3.0/ -
For Microsoft Windows:
C:\Users\USER_NAME\EAP-7.3.0\
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For Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Solaris:
If you used the Red Hat CodeReady Studio installer to install and configure the JBoss EAP server, the default path for
EAP_HOMEis${user.home}/devstudio/runtimes/jboss-eap:-
For Red Hat Enterprise Linux:
/home/USER_NAME/devstudio/runtimes/jboss-eap/ -
For Microsoft Windows:
C:\Users\USER_NAME\devstudio\runtimes\jboss-eaporC:\Documents and Settings\USER_NAME\devstudio\runtimes\jboss-eap\
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For Red Hat Enterprise Linux:
EAP_HOME is not an environment variable. JBOSS_HOME is the environment variable used in scripts.
