ian diddams [http://community.jboss.org/people/didds] created the document: "stopping jboss7" To view the document, visit: http://community.jboss.org/docs/DOC-17175 -------------------------------------------------------------- apolgies if this is the wrong forum for this query - if you steer me to a more apropriate place then that's fine. starting a jboss7 instance is easy enough - cd bin; ./standalone.sh and away you go. Stopping the instance is somewhat less obvious though - googling elicited this - bin/jboss-admin.sh --connect command=:shutdown However, I then had to make alterations to  JBOSS_HOME/configuration/standalone.xml so the instance can be accessed outside the local system - and that "breaks" the stopping command above with a compliant Communication error: Could not connect to remote://localhost:9999 in 5000ms. Make sure the server is running and/or consider setting a longer timeout by setting -Dorg.jboss.as.client.connect.timeout=<timeout in ms>. Closed connection to localhost:9999 presumably this is because of the chnages made in standalone.xml - so what else must I change to allow this shutdown command to now work as a result? cheers ian -------------------------------------------------------------- Comment by going to Community [http://community.jboss.org/docs/DOC-17175] Create a new document in JBoss AS7 Development at Community [http://community.jboss.org/choose-container!input.jspa?contentType=102&am...]