Honestly, its not really this complicated. I personally don't use Netbeans so I can't speak to that. Can you try simply downloading the GF4 zip distribution from [1]. Then unzip it to a directory, drop the DB driver jar into place, and start up the domain using the asadmin start-domain cmd? That will rule out issues you might be having with your Netbeans environment.
-Noah
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https://glassfish.java.net/download.html
On Oct 3, 2013, at 3:35 PM, forums_at_java.net wrote:
> log under domain1 is pristine clean. Since I first installed Netbeans, domain
> log popup menu item on Glassfish server never worked. I probably will have to
> resort to searching for another directory where GF may keep default domain.
> Why does this have to be so confusing and counter-intuitive is beyond me.
> First NB and GF require to be installed into root owned directory, then
> this... [quote=emailnbw]You have absolutely no server.log file?[/quote]
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