Running Mifos with Jetty

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Last updated: Jul 03, 2011 by Michael VorburgerVersion comment

With Release G, Jetty is the new application server for Mifos. 

(Adding this page to clarify install instructions that should eventually live in the INSTALL guide.

See also TBD MIFOS-4769.

To run Mifos in Jetty - 

  1. download and install jetty distribution 7.3.1
  2. Set the following environment variables:
  • JAVA_HOME ... directory where the JDK or JRE is installed
  • JAVA ... points directly to java binary
  • JETTY_HOME ... directory where Jetty is installed
  • JAVA_OPTIONS ... -Xms1024M -Xmx1024M -XX:MaxPermSize=256m
  1. Copy the mifos.war you downloaded to JETTY_HOME/webapps. If the
    following temporary directory exist, delete it: JETTY_HOME/webapps/mifos
  1. Empty work directory: Make sure that JETTY_HOME/work exists, but is empty e.g. via: 
    cd JETTY_HOME; rm -rf work; mkdir work
  2. Start Jetty from the jetty directory: 
     java -Xms1024M -Xmx1024M -XX:MaxPermSize=256m -jar start.jar
    (or use the jetty.sh or jetty-cygwin.sh in bin/ - although they seem to work less well than the simple java -jar start.jar, under Windows at least)
  3. tbd - configuration settings for unique port, etc?