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Rajeev
Rajeev

Reputation: 123

how to host JSP pages for free testing

I've created a web project project using Java, Apache and MySQL on eclipse. Now the thing is that I want to host this for testing purpose (for free). I'm unable to find a way to it. (I'm unfamiliar with Maven but I've converted my project to Maven project using eclipse.) I've uploaded my project to github using egit. I tried to use Heroku and Openshift but I couldn't figure a way to it. Can anyone explain in detail how to host it and configure mySQL.?

Also, I've a free domain (.tk) if it can be of any use.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1395

Answers (1)

eol
eol

Reputation: 24565

I'd set up an amazon EC2-instance, install Java and since you're using JSP a server that provides a servlet container and JSP-engine e.g. Tomcat. Export your application as a .war file, upload it to your remote machine and deploy it to your Tomacat server. Here's a nice tutorial which should help you setting it all up:

https://readlearncode.com/cloud/amazon-free-usage-tier-installing-tomcat-7-on-an-ec2-linux-instance/

EDIT

You need to set the correct permissions for tomcat's webapps directory. Per default it belongs to the root user, so you either do a chmod -R 777 /opt/tomcat/webapps which is unsafe

or

you set the tomcat group for the webapps directory:

chgrp -R tomcat /opt/tomcat/webapps

chmod -R g+w /opt/tomcat/webapps

For safety you can remove the write permissons after deploying:

chmod -R g-w /opt/tomcat/webapps

Also this link might help: Error while trying to deploy WAR on Tomcat8 on Ubuntu 15.04

Upvotes: 1

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