Company policy requires read-only config, JBoss will not start

Issue

• Per company policy, JBoss configuration must not be changed on a running server. File permissions are set to read-only in support of this policy which causes startup to fail with the exception below. I could not find instructions to disable the configuration-history component and setting current-history-length and history-days to 0 had no effect on startup. How can JBoss be configured to start with a read-only configuration?

17:12:00,745 ERROR [org.jboss.as.server] (Controller Boot Thread) JBAS015956: Caught exception during boot: java.lang.IllegalStateException: JBAS014642: Could not create $JBOSS_HOME/standalone/configuration/standalone_xml_history
    at org.jboss.as.controller.persistence.ConfigurationFile.mkdir(ConfigurationFile.java:568) [jboss-as-controller-7.4.0.Final-redhat-19.jar:7.4.0.Final-redhat-19]
    at org.jboss.as.controller.persistence.ConfigurationFile.createHistoryDirectory(ConfigurationFile.java:449) [jboss-as-controller-7.4.0.Final-redhat-19.jar:7.4.0.Final-redhat-19]
    at org.jboss.as.controller.persistence.ConfigurationFile.successfulBoot(ConfigurationFile.java:306) [jboss-as-controller-7.4.0.Final-redhat-19.jar:7.4.0.Final-redhat-19]
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