This is not a question but trying to share my experiences for anyone else having

...ry again, you will be prompted to use 6.3 or 6.4. from here onward no issues.

Issue # 2: you get an error message
Caused by: HornetQException[errorType=NOT_CONNECTED message=HQ119007: Cannot connect to server(s). Tried with all available servers.]
Resolution: verify firewall settings (in my case, McAfee settings) and add port 5445 and 5455 to allow all PCs to communicate

Issue # 3: you get an error message
2015-06-05 04:27:43,772 [ServerService Thread Pool -- 75] ERROR com.appiancorp.common.persistence.search.AppianSearchSpringConfig - error initializing client
com.appiancorp.suiteapi.common.exceptions.AppianException: The search server cannot be reached. Failed to connect to server at [localhost:9300]
Resolution: (a) check if you have started <APPIAN_HOME>\\search-server\\bin\\start.bat (b)verify firewall settings (in my case, McAfee settings) and add port 9300 to allow all PCs to communicate

Issue # 4: you get an error message
"deployment" => "suite.ear")]) - fai...

...lure description: "JBAS014803: Duplicate resource [(\\"deployment\\" => \\"suite.ear\\")]"
11:14:05,854 ERROR [org.jboss.as.controller.management-operation] (Controller Boot Thread) "JBAS014784: Failed executing subsystem deployment-scanner
boot operations"
11:14:05,856 ERROR [org.jboss.as.controller.management-operation] (Controller Boot Thread) JBAS014612: Operation ("parallel-subsystem-boot") failed -
address: ([]) - failure description: "\\"JBAS014784: Failed executing subsystem deployment-scanner boot operations\\""
Resolution: for some reason your <repository>\\bin\\jboss\\jboss-eap-6.4\\modules does not have a folder for your RDBMS module.xml and <driver .jar> file. copy them from a working JBoss folder or ask for these specific files on forum. These files are pretty standard and does not have any specific file paths. So, you can safely copy from any environment, any machine any user.

Issue # 5: would like to setup your gmail account for email handler
Resolution: (...

... a) have the following minimum properties in your <repository>/ear/suite.ear/conf/custom.properties.dev
conf.mailhandler.ntf_sndr_addr=<gmail user id>@gmail.com
conf.mailhandler.email.domain=gmail.com
conf.mailhandler.mail.smtp.host=smtp.gmail.com:587
conf.mailhandler.mail.smtp.auth=true
conf.mailhandler.mail.user=<gmail user id>
conf.mailhandler.mail.transport.protocol=smtp
conf.mailhandler.mail.smtp.starttls.enable=true
conf.mailhandler.mail.smtp.starttls.required=true
(b) have the following property in <repository>/ear/suite.ear/conf/passwords.properties.dev
conf.password.SMTP=<gmail password>

Issue # 6: you gave a wrong path for JBoss foler for configure.bat prompt. after that each time you execute configure.bat file, old path or wrong path is used.
Resolution: Quit configure.bat and then edit <APPIAN_HIME>\\_admin\\_scripts\\configure\\.configure file to change the target folder for JBoss

For Issue # 4 I am not quite sure how you were able to correlate a "duplicate resource" error with a missing module.xml. Can you expand a little bit on this one?

Edurado, logically the error message does not make sense. When the module.xml itself is missing but the error message says "duplicate resource". When I had the module.xml the error message is gone.

Thank you for sharing! That totally matches what was discussed at forum.appian.com/.../e-151290. Makes sense now.