Getting Started with WebSphere Application Server

Chapter 2 - Installing Community Edition 41
Figure 2.11 - Starting Community Edition: Server started message
Once you receive the message "Server started", go back to the same Windows menu and
choose Administrative Console. This will start the Administrative Console in your browser
located at https://localhost:8443/console as shown in Figure 2.12
Figure 2.12 - Starting the Community Edition Administrative Console to validate your
installation
To start the Community Edition server you can also go to the folder where you installed
Community Edition (See Figure 2.7 above) and run start-server.bat.
On Linux start the Community Edition server using start-server.sh. To start the admin
console, simply open a browser and point it to https://localhost:8443/console
To log in to the Administrative Console, the default user is system and the password is
manager. When you click login, you should see the Administrative Console main window.
We will discuss more about the Administrative Console later in this book.