diff --git a/Vagrantfile b/Vagrantfile
index 8293fbaf5fc..72f2e54626f 100644
--- a/Vagrantfile
+++ b/Vagrantfile
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION = "2"
 
 Vagrant.configure(VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION) do |config|
-  config.vm.box = "bento/rockylinux-8.4"
+  config.vm.box = "bento/rockylinux-8.5"
 
   config.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |vbox|
     vbox.cpus = 4
diff --git a/downloads/download.sh b/downloads/download.sh
index 3d37d9f0940..5bfb1ac9a14 100755
--- a/downloads/download.sh
+++ b/downloads/download.sh
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #!/bin/sh
-curl -L -O https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/payara.fish/Payara+Downloads/5.2021.6/payara-5.2021.6.zip
+curl -L -O https://s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/payara.fish/Payara+Downloads/6.2022.1.Alpha2/payara-6.2022.1.Alpha2.zip
 curl -L -O https://archive.apache.org/dist/lucene/solr/8.11.1/solr-8.11.1.tgz
 curl -L -O https://search.maven.org/remotecontent?filepath=org/jboss/weld/weld-osgi-bundle/2.2.10.Final/weld-osgi-bundle-2.2.10.Final-glassfish4.jar
 curl -s -L http://sourceforge.net/projects/schemaspy/files/schemaspy/SchemaSpy%205.0.0/schemaSpy_5.0.0.jar/download > schemaSpy_5.0.0.jar
diff --git a/scripts/installer/as-setup.sh b/scripts/installer/as-setup.sh
index 853db77f471..dbb4b6ecc7d 100755
--- a/scripts/installer/as-setup.sh
+++ b/scripts/installer/as-setup.sh
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ function preliminary_setup()
   #./asadmin $ASADMIN_OPTS delete-jvm-options "-XX\:MaxPermSize=192m"
   #./asadmin $ASADMIN_OPTS create-jvm-options "-XX\:MaxPermSize=512m"
   #./asadmin $ASADMIN_OPTS create-jvm-options "-XX\:PermSize=256m"
-  # payara5 ships with the "-server" option already in domain.xml, so no need:
+  # payara6 ships with the "-server" option already in domain.xml, so no need:
   #./asadmin $ASADMIN_OPTS delete-jvm-options -client
 
   # new Payara5 options: (thanks to donsizemore@unc.edu)
@@ -155,18 +155,18 @@ function final_setup(){
 
 if [ "$DOCKER_BUILD" = "true" ]
   then
-    FILES_DIR="/usr/local/payara5/glassfish/domains/domain1/files"
+    FILES_DIR="/usr/local/payara6/glassfish/domains/domain1/files"
     RSERVE_HOST="localhost"
     RSERVE_PORT="6311"
     RSERVE_USER="rserve"
     RSERVE_PASS="rserve"
     HOST_ADDRESS="localhost\:8080"
-    pushd /usr/local/payara5/glassfish/bin/
+    pushd /usr/local/payara6/glassfish/bin/
     ./asadmin start-domain domain1
     preliminary_setup
-    chmod -R 777 /usr/local/payara5/
-    rm -rf /usr/local/payara5/glassfish/domains/domain1/generated 
-    rm -rf /usr/local/payara5/glassfish/domains/domain1/applications
+    chmod -R 777 /usr/local/payara6/
+    rm -rf /usr/local/payara6/glassfish/domains/domain1/generated
+    rm -rf /usr/local/payara6/glassfish/domains/domain1/applications
     popd
     exit 0
 fi
diff --git a/scripts/installer/default.config b/scripts/installer/default.config
index 312dd2cb2d8..8647cd02416 100644
--- a/scripts/installer/default.config
+++ b/scripts/installer/default.config
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 [glassfish]
 HOST_DNS_ADDRESS = localhost
 GLASSFISH_USER = dataverse
-GLASSFISH_DIRECTORY = /usr/local/payara5
+GLASSFISH_DIRECTORY = /usr/local/payara6
 GLASSFISH_ADMIN_USER = admin
 GLASSFISH_ADMIN_PASSWORD = secret
 GLASSFISH_HEAP = 2048
diff --git a/scripts/installer/install.py b/scripts/installer/install.py
index ea1a69db6a7..bf0d4914cf2 100644
--- a/scripts/installer/install.py
+++ b/scripts/installer/install.py
@@ -511,12 +511,12 @@
 try: 
    copy2(jhoveConfigSchemaDist, gfConfigDir)
    # The JHOVE conf file has an absolute PATH of the JHOVE config schema file (uh, yeah...)
-   # and may need to be adjusted, if Payara is installed anywhere other than /usr/local/payara5:
-   if gfDir == "/usr/local/payara5":
+   # and may need to be adjusted, if Payara is installed anywhere other than /usr/local/payara6:
+   if gfDir == "/usr/local/payara6":
       copy2(jhoveConfigDist, gfConfigDir)
    else:
-      # use sed to replace /usr/local/payara5 in the distribution copy with the real gfDir:
-      sedCommand = "sed 's:/usr/local/payara5:"+gfDir+":g' < " + jhoveConfigDist + " > " + gfConfigDir + "/" + jhoveConfig
+      # use sed to replace /usr/local/payara6 in the distribution copy with the real gfDir:
+      sedCommand = "sed 's:/usr/local/payara6:"+gfDir+":g' < " + jhoveConfigDist + " > " + gfConfigDir + "/" + jhoveConfig
       subprocess.call(sedCommand, shell=True)
 
    print("done.")
diff --git a/scripts/installer/installAppServer.py b/scripts/installer/installAppServer.py
index 8b719ac09d1..698f5ba9a58 100644
--- a/scripts/installer/installAppServer.py
+++ b/scripts/installer/installAppServer.py
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 
 def runAsadminScript(config):
    # We are going to run a standalone shell script with a bunch of asadmin                                      
-   # commands to set up all the app. server (payara5) components for the application.                                       
+   # commands to set up all the app. server (payara6) components for the application.
    # All the parameters must be passed to that script as environmental                                          
    # variables:
    os.environ['GLASSFISH_DOMAIN'] = "domain1";
diff --git a/scripts/vagrant/setup.sh b/scripts/vagrant/setup.sh
index e4915ae9ffa..71a0f890a3e 100644
--- a/scripts/vagrant/setup.sh
+++ b/scripts/vagrant/setup.sh
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 echo "Installing dependencies for Dataverse"
 
-# wget seems to be missing in box 'bento/centos-8.2'
+# ensure wget
 dnf install -qy wget
 
 # python3 and psycopg2 for the Dataverse installer
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ SOLR_USER=solr
 echo "Ensuring Unix user '$SOLR_USER' exists"
 useradd $SOLR_USER || :
 DOWNLOAD_DIR='/dataverse/downloads'
-PAYARA_ZIP="$DOWNLOAD_DIR/payara-5.2021.6.zip"
+PAYARA_ZIP="$DOWNLOAD_DIR/payara-6.2022.1.Alpha2.zip"
 SOLR_TGZ="$DOWNLOAD_DIR/solr-8.11.1.tgz"
 if [ ! -f $PAYARA_ZIP ] || [ ! -f $SOLR_TGZ ]; then
     echo "Couldn't find $PAYARA_ZIP or $SOLR_TGZ! Running download script...."
@@ -59,13 +59,13 @@ if [ ! -f $PAYARA_ZIP ] || [ ! -f $SOLR_TGZ ]; then
     echo "Done running download script."
 fi
 PAYARA_USER_HOME=~dataverse
-PAYARA_ROOT=/usr/local/payara5
+PAYARA_ROOT=/usr/local/payara6
 if [ ! -d $PAYARA_ROOT ]; then
   echo "Copying $PAYARA_ZIP to $PAYARA_USER_HOME and unzipping"
   su $PAYARA_USER -s /bin/sh -c "cp $PAYARA_ZIP $PAYARA_USER_HOME"
   su $PAYARA_USER -s /bin/sh -c "cd $PAYARA_USER_HOME && unzip -q $PAYARA_ZIP"
-  # default.config defaults to /usr/local/payara5 so let's go with that
-  rsync -a $PAYARA_USER_HOME/payara5/ $PAYARA_ROOT/
+  # default.config defaults to /usr/local/payara6 so let's go with that
+  rsync -a $PAYARA_USER_HOME/payara6/ $PAYARA_ROOT/
 else
   echo "$PAYARA_ROOT already exists"
 fi