Installing Jetty
While there might be an installer/package for your operating system, it's just as simple to install jetty manually.
It is very lightweight and just needs to be expanded somewhere and is ready to run.
They have Debian and RPM packages available as well, so you can use that if it applies to your OS.
http://www.mortbay.org/
http://www.mortbay.org/Manual install
- Download Jetty (Latest stable) from:
http://www.mortbay.org/- Extract the Jetty archive wherever you want to install it (Ex: in /opt/ or c:\)
You can then start/stop jetty like this
/opt/bin/jetty start
/opt/bin/jetty stop
Jetty Configuration
The standard configuration is just fine, and will run jetty on port 8080.
If you want to change that, edit /opt/jetty/etc/jetty.xml and change 8080 for another port.
Running as a service
If you want jetty to automatically run when you start your OS, you will need a "service" setup:
If you used the .deb or .rpm jetty packages, you should already have /etc/init.d/jetty and are good to go.
On windows, you will want to use the Jetty Win32Wrapper, see:
http://docs.codehaus.org/display/JETTY/Win32WrapperOn other unixes, you can add this script(or similar) to your service folder (ex: /etc/init.d:)
/etc/init.d/jetty
#! /bin/sh
case "$1" in
start)
cd /opt/jetty
java -Xmx256m -Xms256m -jar start.jar etc/jetty.xml &
echo $! > /var/run/jetty.pid
;;
stop)
pid=`cat /var/run/jetty.pid`
kill $pid
;;
esac
exit 0
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