Deploy BuildVu with Jetty

Table of contents

1. Building the web app
2. Deploying the web app
3. Usage

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Building the web app

1. Download and install the latest version of Jetty.
2. Build a copy of our BuildVu Microservice Example project. Instructions can be found on the GitHub page.

Deploying the web app

1. In the downloaded Jetty directory, navigate to the ‘webapps’ folder and place the war file into that directory. The name of the war file will be the base of your web app. For example, if the webserver is hosted at localhost:8080, “buildvu-microservice.war” will be deployed at localhost:8080/buildvu-microservice.
   

2. You also need an endpoint to serve static files produced through the conversion. To do this, we have a “jetty-static.xml” in buildvu-microservice-example/lib. Copy/Move jetty-static.xml to {Jetty directory}/webapps/ which will automatically configure this for you.
   

3. Start the Jetty server and navigate to the admin console in your browser.
   java -jar start.jar will start the server on localhost:8080

You can check if the web app has successfully deployed by navigating to its URL in your browser - you should see a blank white page with “BuildVu Microservice Example” written in the centre.

Usage

You can interact with the BuildVu Microservice Example using the REST API (See the GitHub page for details).

For specific languages, see our tutorials.