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Jane
Jane

Reputation: 707

How to deploy a play framework application on ubuntu?

I have written a set of RESTful APIs by using Play Framework 2.1.0 in Java with an existing MySql database.

And now I want to deploy it on a server with Ubuntu as its operating server. And I wish all the users in the same LAN can visit it. But I don't know how to set it up.

Should I install some software like tomcat?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1312

Answers (1)

biesior
biesior

Reputation: 55798

You don't need to install Tomcat, Play has standalone HTTP server built-in so you can just start it on port 80 and that's all.

Of course starting the application via Play console has no sense, therefore you should prepare a dist package as described in the docs.

If target machine will host only this one application all you need is to use start script created by mentioned dist command.

On the other hand it's quite useful to use some frontend HTTP server as a load balancer and reverse proxy. It will allow you to work with SSL, host many apps with virtual hosts at the same machine or even just serve public assets in CDN-like mode.

Upvotes: 3

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