CentOS 7 /Linux: How To Install Jetty Web Server

Jetty provides a Web server and javax.servlet container, plus support  for  SPDY,  WebSocket,  OSGi,  JMX,  JNDI,  JAAS  and many other integrations.  How to install Jetty Web Server in CentOS 7 operating system? in this post, you’ll see the installation steps.

CentOS 7 Jetty Web Server Installation

Step1# Firstly you need to make sure that the Java package has been installed, or you can use the following command to install it, type:

$sudo yum installjava-1.7.0-openjdk

Step2# Downloading jetty source package, and uncompress it to /opt directory

$sudo  wget http://download.eclipse.org/jetty/stable-9/dist/jetty-distribution-9.2.5.v20141112.tar.gz

$ tar -zxvf jetty-distribution-9.2.5.v20141112.tar.gz /opt

Step3# Modidy jetty-distribution-9.2.5.v20141112  to another simple name, such as: jetty, issue the following command:

$sudo mv /opt/jetty-distribution-9.2.5.v20141112 /opt/jetty

Step4# edit “/etc/default/jetty” configuration file and add the below information in:

JETTY_HOME=/opt/jetty

JETTY_USER=root

JETTY_PORT=8080

JETTY_HOST=192.168.1.154

JETTY_LOGS=/opt/jetty/logs/

Step5# restart Jetty web service, type:

$sudo service jetty start

done….