Installing Standalone Archiva as a Service

It's very easy to install archiva as a standalone mode.

Get the latest standalone archiva distribution from apache.org and unpack it.

$ cd /opt

$ wget http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/archiva/binaries/apache-archiva-1.3.5-bin.tar.gz

$ tar -zxvf apache-archiva-1.3.5-bin.tar.gz

$ ln -sf apache-archiva-1.3.5 archiva

Create service script for archiva and place it as /etc/init.d/archiva , which contains:

#!/bin/sh

# description:archiva

# chkconfig: 345 80 20

export JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/default

function main {

case "$1" in

start)

/opt/archiva/bin/archiva start

;;

stop)

/opt/archiva/bin/archiva stop

;;

restart)

/opt/archiva/bin/archiva restart

;;

status)

/opt/archiva/bin/archiva status

;;

*)

echo "Usage: $0 { start | stop | restart | status }"

exit 1

;;

esac

}

main $1

You may be want to run archiva from root context. The easiest way to make archiva the root context (/) is to name it "root"

$ cd /opt/archiva/apps

$ mv archiva root

You may be want to run archiva from different port. Default is 8080. You should change /opt/archiva/conf/jetty.xml with an editor. change following line:

<Set name="port"><SystemProperty name="jetty.port" default="8081"/></Set>

You may be want to run archiva process under different user. You should change /opt/archiva/bin/archiva with an editor. change following line:

RUN_AS_USER=archiva

Archiva service can be started:

$ service archiva start

It can be checked whether archiva running or not from a web browser: