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Paras
Paras

Reputation: 9465

Play Framework Deployment Failing

We made a distribution of our Play Framework 2.5x app using activator dist. Then unzipped the executable in the target/universal folder and ran the executable in the target/universal/app-ver-SNAPSHOT/bin/ folder using:

./executablename -Dplay.crypto.secret='key' on ubuntu with the following error:

Error: Could not find or load main class play.core.server.ProdServerStart

Our build.sbt file is as follows:

name := """ods-web-tier"""

version := "1.0-SNAPSHOT"

lazy val root = (project in file(".")).enablePlugins(PlayJava, PlayEbean)

scalaVersion := "2.11.7"

libraryDependencies ++= Seq(
  javaJdbc,
  evolutions,
  "io.jsonwebtoken" % "jjwt" % "0.6.0",
  "mysql" % "mysql-connector-java" % "5.1.36",
  "com.mashape.unirest" % "unirest-java" % "1.4.9"
)
sources in (Compile, doc) := Seq.empty
publishArtifact in (Compile, packageDoc) := false

playEbeanModels in Compile := Seq("models.*")

What are we missing here? Please help

Upvotes: 3

Views: 4575

Answers (2)

meucaa
meucaa

Reputation: 1515

It seems that you did not bundle the dependencies (JARs) you are using with your application. To do so, you can create a fat JAR using sbt assembly or copy the entire folder produced by the sbt dist command on your server instead of just the executable.

Upvotes: 1

Paras
Paras

Reputation: 9465

Thanks, I figured out the issue.

I just transferred the executable file only to the production server. Apparently, we need to transfer the entire zip or unzipped folder as it has the configurations and dependencies

Upvotes: 3

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