Starting a WebSphere Application Server traditional server

When you are ready to test your projects, you must start a server. In some situations, the server tools start a server for you automatically.

Before you begin

Important: Applicable to WebSphere® Application Server traditional
  • Create a server
  • This graphic is a Windows icon. On Windows:This graphic is a Linux icon. On Linux: 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, WebSphere Application Server uses the root user ID to run the server. A non-root user profile must be created by the root user. Depending on the assignment of profile directory ownership that is completed by the installer, a non-root user can create a profile, start WebSphere Application Server, or do both.
  • Starting a remote WebSphere Application Server that uses the workbench is supported only on Linux and Windows operating systems. For all the other supported operating systems that run WebSphere Application Server, you must manually start the server on the remote computer. For more information, see Starting a remote WebSphere Application Server.
Important: Applicable to WebSphere Application Server traditional

About this task

Once you start 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.

Procedure

  1. Switch to the Servers view.
  2. In the Servers view, right-click the server that you want to start.
  3. Select Start. The following things happen:
    • If you selected the Automatically publish when starting servers check box on the Server preferences page (Window > Preferences > Server), the server tools check to see if your project and files on the server are synchronized before you start 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 takes a minute to start the server. If the server fails to start, check the reason that it failed in the Console.
    • In the Status column of the Servers view, the status of the server changes to Started.

Results

Tip: The server is automatically started when you right-click on a file and then select Run As > Run on Server.
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