Installing WildFly on Mac OS X

The easiest way is to install WildFly on Mac OS X is through Homebrew the free open-source package managment system.

Requirements: install homebrew first.

ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)" < /dev/null 2> /dev/null

Then, install WildFly as follows:

$ brew update
Already up-to-date.
$ brew search wildfly
wildfly-as
$ brew install wildfly-as
==> Downloading https://download.jboss.org/wildfly/16.0.0.Final/wildfly-16.0.0.Final.tar.gz
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==> Caveats
The home of WildFly Application Server 16 is:
  /usr/local/opt/wildfly-as/libexec
You may want to add the following to your .bash_profile:
  export JBOSS_HOME=/usr/local/opt/wildfly-as/libexec
  export PATH=${PATH}:${JBOSS_HOME}/bin
==> Summary
 /usr/local/Cellar/wildfly-as/16.0.0.Final: 1,180 files, 153.4M, built in 7 minutes 18 seconds

WildFly bin folder is located in /usr/local/opt/wildfly-as/libexec/bin

$ cd /usr/local/opt/wildfly-as/libexec/bin
$ ./standalone.sh

To stop the server use Ctrl + C (this doesn’t always work);

So use this command:

$ ./jboss-cli.sh --connect command=:shutdown