JasperReports Server & Linux CentOS

I’ve recently installed JasperReports Server (release Community Project 4.2.1) on Linux CentOS, so I would like to talk about some issues I’ve been dealing with.

First of all, I have to write about a JRStyledTextParser exception that I got and didn’t have on Microsoft Windows. Once more a forum post was the beginning of the solution, so I edited the file $JASPERSERVER_HOME/apache-tomcat/scripts/clt.sh and set the property java.awt.headless=true:

export JAVA_OPTS="-Djava.awt.headless=true ..."

I wanted to run JasperServer as a service so I had to code the following script in /etc/init.d:

#!/bin/bash## jasperserver        ## chkconfig: 2345 95 15# description: Script de inicio de JasperReports ServerRETVAL=$?JASPERSERVER_HOME="/jaspersoft/jasperreports-server-cp-4.2.1"case "$1" in start)        if [ -f $JASPERSERVER_HOME/ctlscript.sh ];          then            echo $"Starting JasperReports Server"            /bin/su - jasperadmin -c "$JASPERSERVER_HOME/ctlscript.sh start"        fi        ;; stop)        if [ -f $JASPERSERVER_HOME/ctlscript.sh ];          then            echo $"Stopping JasperReports Server"            /bin/su - jasperadmin -c "$JASPERSERVER_HOME/ctlscript.sh stop"              fi        ;; restart)        if [ -f $JASPERSERVER_HOME/ctlscript.sh ];          then            echo $"Restarting JasperReports Server"            /bin/su - jasperadmin -c "$JASPERSERVER_HOME/ctlscript.sh restart"        fi        ;;  status)        if [ -f $JASPERSERVER_HOME/ctlscript.sh ];          then            /bin/su - jasperadmin -c "$JASPERSERVER_HOME/ctlscript.sh status"              fi        ;; *)        echo $"Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|status}"        exit 1        ;;esacexit $RETVAL

After that, I added the service:

chmod 755 jasperserverchkconfig --add jasperserver

Finally, I used a specific user jasperadmin as the owner of JasperServer software, this user could not open the restricted ports 80 and 443 (I needed HTTPS), so I set up Apache to act as a proxy, adding this line to the httpd.conf configuration file:

ProxyPass / ajp://jasperserver.test.local:8009/

I hope that my experience will be useful for you!