Active MQ Web Admin Console Not Working

Question

Has anyone found a work around or seen the issue of admin console not working in ActiveMQ 5.4.1 & 5.4.0?

I'm using the out of the box config. I turned on logging at the DEBUG level and I don't see any jetty startup errors, when I go to http://[myIp]:8161/admin I get this

HTTP ERROR: 503

Problem accessing /. Reason:

Service Unavailable

the log entries Jetty outputs for the request are

2010-10-01 14:20:11,599 | DEBUG | REQUEST /favicon.ico on org.eclipse.jetty.server.nio.SelectChannelConnector$2@ca8e2b8 | org.eclipse.jetty.util.log | qtp299878560-27 - /favicon.ico 2010-10-01 14:20:11,599 | DEBUG | REQUEST / on org.eclipse.jetty.server.nio.SelectChannelConnector$2@23bca486 | org.eclipse.jetty.util.log | qtp299878560-28 - / 2010-10-01 14:20:11,600 | DEBUG | /favicon.ico | org.eclipse.jetty.util.log | qtp299878560-27 - /favicon.ico 2010-10-01 14:20:11,600 | DEBUG | / | org.eclipse.jetty.util.log | qtp299878560-28 - / 2010-10-01 14:20:11,621 | DEBUG | REQUEST /favicon.ico on org.eclipse.jetty.server.nio.SelectChannelConnector$2@38ec029 | org.eclipse.jetty.util.log | qtp299878560-29 - /favicon.ico 2010-10-01 14:20:11,621 | DEBUG | /favicon.ico | org.eclipse.jetty.util.log | qtp299878560-29 - /favicon.ico

I have seen the console work on occasion for the version 5.4.0 but never for 5.4.1.

Answer 1

I upgraded the JDK to the 64bit version of 1.6.0_21 for Linux and the issue went away so not sure why an older version of java 6 would create this issue but it works now. I did see a number of people in other forums having this issue though with the current and recent previous versions of active mq, so hopefully this will be a general fix for them as well.