JBoss BPM Suite 6.0 installer fails when installation path contains the word 'domain' in the name

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Environment

  • Red Hat JBoss BPM Suite (BPM Suite)
    • 6.0.x

Issue

The BPM Suite installer have a limitation that does not permit that the keyword domain being used in the installation path. The following installation path was used as example: /tmp/temp/domain

$ java -jar jboss-bpms-installer-6.0.3.GA-redhat-1.jar -console
...
If you wish to install on an existing EAP installation, the parent directory of that EAP installation should be specified. [/home/user1] 
/tmp/temp/domain/bpms
...
JBOSS_HOME adjusted to: /tmp/temp/domain/bpms/jboss-eap-6.1
Starting Server.
=========================================================================

  JBoss Bootstrap Environment

  JBOSS_HOME: /tmp/temp/domain/bpms/jboss-eap-6.1

  JAVA: /usr/java/jdk1.7.0_71/bin/java

  JAVA_OPTS:  -server -XX:+UseCompressedOops -Xms1303m -Xmx1303m -XX:MaxPermSize=256m -Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true -Djboss.modules.system.pkgs=org.jboss.byteman -Djava.awt.headless=true -Djboss.modules.policy-permissions=true -Djava.security.manager "-Djava.security.policy=/tmp/temp/domain/bpms/jboss-eap-6.1/bin/security.policy" "-Dkie.security.policy=/tmp/temp/domain/bpms/jboss-eap-6.1/bin/kie.policy"

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11:30:08,713 INFO  [org.jboss.modules] (main) JBoss Modules version 1.2.2.Final-redhat-1
11:30:08,842 ERROR [stderr] (main) JBAS015801: Invalid option '--host-config=host.xml'
...

Resolution

If the installation path contains domain in the name the installation will fails with that error:

/tmp/temp/domain/bpms/

To avoid this issue change the installation path or rename the directory that contains the domain word.

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