Azure – Configure Jetty to host simple HTML page

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On my Azure VM I have a Jetty server that is hosting my Java servlet which is deployed on /opt/jetty/webapps/myservlet.war pointing to example.cloudapp.net/myservlet.

In addition I want to host a simple HTML page and point example.cloudapp.net to it. Where should I place my index.html file? How can I config Jetty to do that?

Best Answer

Just create a directory called root inside webapps and put there your index.html. Jetty will serve all the static content inside root at context /.

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Have you tried building a war out of the directory? And then copying the package into '/usr/share/jetty/webapps' - directory.

Eg.

jar cvf MyApp.war -C MyApp/ .
sudo cp MyApp.war /usr/share/jetty/webapps/

Hope this helps!

How to configure Jetty (via jettyrunner) so that it names a character set in the Content-Type response header

This isn't necessarily a Jetty/Jetty Runner issue. Jetty is the Servlet container, while the response is generated by the servlet (or something higher up which ultimately implements a servlet). Without knowing what you are using above Jetty to generate your content, it is hard to say.

One thing you can do is explicitly define your char-set in the HTML itself using meta tags. HTML5 has simplified how to do this:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <title>Example document</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <p>Example paragraph</p>
  </body>
</html>

As opposed to the previous HTML syntax:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html>
  <head>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
    <title>Example document</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <p>Example paragraph</p>
  </body>
</html>

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Ubuntu – Deploying applications in Jetty (as a former Tomcat user)

How to configure Jetty (via jettyrunner) so that it names a character set in the Content-Type response header

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