I think there we have it ;)
jforum.war means that it originally was a war file and probably in the background it still will redeploy the initially installed war file. I guess you used the war to install the app, and then customized the settings on the frontend...
Some settings then are stored in the jforum_custom.properties or something alike that. This file most probably was not included in the original war that you installed on the jboss server.
The next step would be to "package" the application again in a war file - including the updated (correct) properties files that are required to run the app. Then make an update installation on jboss (or remove the old one and install fresh) ...
I think this way
you should be able to start along with the available properties.
Keep in mind that you aren't really able to make persistent changes this way, as those changes are only kept in the properties file that are replaced after reboot again.
I think one way would be to maybe rewrite some parts of the jforum code so that it would allow you to specify a folder where to store the custom config files to - so that these are persistent even after reboot/reinstall ...
Not sure if there's a better solution, but that's one that comes to my mind.
[originally posted on jforum.net by Sid]