jetty installation

[Miguel de Melo]

I have been trying to install Jetty using apt-get for the last couple of days unsuccessfully on a Ubuntu 9.10 server. I have created a VM with Ubuntu 9.10 server to elaborate on this test case following the lack of progress on a real server. Is probably important to note that I can run jetty using the maven jetty plugin in the same distro, but I was looking at deploying my app to a more standard jetty installation using just a war file.

I have sun java 6 installed with "apt-get install sun-java6-jdk"

$ java -version
java version "1.6.0_15"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_15-b03)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 14.1-b02, mixed mode, sharing)


I initially started by just doing a :

$ sudo apt-get install jetty

But also tried (with similar outcome) to follow the instructions in Jetty Debian Packages Official debs page http://docs.codehaus.org/display/JETTY/Debian+Packages. Interesting to note that the instructions listed jetty6 as a package to be installed, but apt-get could not find it, so I had to install the "jetty" package instead.


$ sudo apt-get install libjetty6-java
$ sudo apt-get install libjetty6-extra-java
$ sudo apt-get install jetty

I then started jetty using the standard service start syntax

$ sudo service jetty start
* Starting Jetty servlet engine. jetty
* Jetty servlet engine started, reachable on http://ubuntu:8080/. jetty
...done.


I then tried to access the default jetty site from a web browser external to the VM and using lynx in the vm on http://localhost:8080/ and http://10.211.55.9:8080/, and get no response:


$ ls -lha /usr/share/jetty/logs
total 16K
drwxr-x--- 2 jetty adm 4.0K 2010-01-14 00:07 .
drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 4.0K 2010-01-14 00:05 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 jetty jetty 0 2010-01-14 00:07 2010_01_14.request.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 jetty jetty 2.2K 2010-01-14 00:07 2010_01_14.stderrout.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 jetty adm 329 2010-01-14 00:07 out.log


/usr/share/jetty/logs/2010_01_14.request.log is empty

/usr/share/jetty/logs/2010_01_14.stderrout.log

2010-01-14 00:07:40.993::INFO: jetty-6.1.x
2010-01-14 00:07:41.040::INFO: Deploy /etc/jetty/contexts/javadoc.xml -> org.mortbay.jetty.handler.ContextHandler@16b13c7{/javadoc,file:/usr/share/jetty/javadoc}
2010-01-14 00:07:41.069::WARN: failed org.mortbay.jetty.deployer.WebAppDeployer@1cdeff: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: No such webapps resource file:/usr/share/java/webapps
2010-01-14 00:07:41.225::INFO: NO JSP Support for , did not find org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet
2010-01-14 00:07:41.358::INFO: Opened /var/log/jetty/2010_01_14.request.log
2010-01-14 00:07:41.377::INFO: Started SelectChannelConnector@:8080
2010-01-14 00:07:41.378::WARN: failed Server@12d3205: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: No such webapps resource file:/usr/share/java/webapps
2010-01-14 00:07:41.378::WARN: EXCEPTION
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: No such webapps resource file:/usr/share/java/webapps
at org.mortbay.jetty.deployer.WebAppDeployer.scan(Web AppDeployer.java:155)
at org.mortbay.jetty.deployer.WebAppDeployer.doStart( WebAppDeployer.java:139)
at org.mortbay.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(Abst ractLifeCycle.java:50)
at org.mortbay.jetty.Server.doStart(Server.java:201)
at org.mortbay.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(Abst ractLifeCycle.java:50)
at org.mortbay.xml.XmlConfiguration.main(XmlConfigura tion.java:985)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Nativ e Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Native MethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(De legatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
at org.mortbay.start.Main.invokeMain(Main.java:194)
at org.mortbay.start.Main.start(Main.java:534)
at org.mortbay.jetty.start.daemon.Bootstrap.start(Boo tstrap.java:30)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Nativ e Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Native MethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(De legatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
at org.apache.commons.daemon.support.DaemonLoader.sta rt(DaemonLoader.java:177)


/usr/share/jetty/logs/out.log

SLF4J: Failed to load class "org.slf4j.impl.StaticLoggerBinder".
SLF4J: See http://www.slf4j.org/codes.html#StaticLoggerBinder for further details.
2010-01-14 00:07:40.502::INFO: Logging to STDERR via org.mortbay.log.StdErrLog
2010-01-14 00:07:40.689::INFO: Redirecting stderr/stdout to /var/log/jetty/2010_01_14.stderrout.log



$ nmap localhost

Starting Nmap 5.00 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2010-01-14 01:04 GMT
Warning: Hostname localhost resolves to 2 IPs. Using 127.0.0.1.
Interesting ports on localhost (127.0.0.1):
Not shown: 998 closed ports
PORT STATE SERVICE
22/tcp open ssh
8080/tcp open http-proxy

Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 0.23 seconds


I do not get the port 8080 listed when I nmap the boxes ip address though, not sure if it's related

$ nmap 10.211.55.9

Starting Nmap 5.00 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2010-01-14 01:05 GMT
Interesting ports on 10.211.55.9:
Not shown: 999 closed ports
PORT STATE SERVICE
22/tcp open ssh

Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 0.10 seconds



$ netstat -an | grep LISTEN
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:22 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
tcp6 0 0 127.0.0.1:8080 :::* LISTEN
tcp6 0 0 :::22 :::* LISTEN
unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 20266 /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket
unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 2622 @/com/ubuntu/upstart
unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 20382 /var/run/avahi-daemon/socke

[mighdoll]

try this:

sudo mkdir -p /usr/share/java/webapps


and then restart jetty:

sudo /etc/init.d/jetty stop
sudo /etc/init.d/jetty start

That seems to do the trick for me.

[Miguel de Melo]

Thanks that got read of the java.lang.IllegalArgumentException, but it still complains about not having JSP support.

NO JSP Support for , did not find org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet

I tried to activate jasper but for some reason jasper has been removed from the archives and I found a request to raise a bug for that effect here https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/jikes/+question/94834

I also get

SLF4J: Failed to load class "org.slf4j.impl.StaticLoggerBinder".

in the mean time I guess I'll have to try the stand alone distribution instead, as I have run out of ideas.

[efleming969]

Miguel,

Did you have any luck with this. I'm running into the same problems.

The state of the this jetty package is broken in IMO. I've spent more that 6 hours trying to get anything to work properly.

I install the tomcat6 package and it took two minutes to get the default application to respond.

[noSelf]

i was running into the same problems and am glad i found this thread before spending more than 40 min trying.

Download, install, and run of the .zip distribution took under 5 min. i don't mind some duplication of jars on my system to have a clean install distributed by the project itself.

[elmdm]

I've managed to get past this using:

sudo apt-get install libjetty-extra