First, the stack trace you provided is missing the beginning of the exception (in other words, the important stuff is missing). Most likely, your terminal window's buffer is not large enough so you could either resize the buffer, or extract the stack trace from the server.log file. Second, the "Incomplete Deployment listing" and "Depends on me" entries are typically not helpful in solving a problem, they simply indicate that a problem did occur but don't give the root cause. So please don't post those. Finally, at the end of what you posted there is the error message: 3:10:08,627 INFO [ChannelSocket] Port busy 8009 java.net.BindException: Address already in use This means that some other application has port 8009 in use. I would find out what application that is an stop it (recommended for just getting you up and running), or change the JBoss configuration to use a different port. Once you fix that, the "name not found" exception from earlier in your post might solve itself. By the way, are you running a clean install of JBoss, or did you deploy an application to it? If the later, remove the deployed application and just try to start JBoss. And another thing, the output you posted has nothing whatsoever to do with entering a URL at a browser. Note the last line of that output: 13:10:08,634 INFO [Server] JBoss (MX MicroKernel) [4.0.0 (build: CVSTag=JBoss_4_0_0 date=200409200418)] Started in 30s:856ms This is the last line printed before JBoss starts accepting input from browsers. Any problems resulting from entering a URL in a browser would show up after this line of the output. Or stated another way, you should wait until that line is printed before entering a URL at the browser. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4023122#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...