Configuration of the demonstration webapp's ip and port

[slavistan]

Hi. I'm trying to figure out how to configure the ip and port of the webapp's HTTP server.

I've followed the thread of the startup procedure and found that the file dss-demo-bundle-5.11.1/apache-tomcat-8.5.82/conf/server.xml can be used to set the port by changing the value in the <Connector> tag. Are there other methods exposed to configure the webserver?

In particular:

• Is there a way to configure the port via environment variables? The configuration file makes automatic deployment of the webapp a little cumbersome, as the port has to be configured by in-file substitution of the port value.
• Is there a way to configure the loopback ip address for the server to bind to? For example, is it possible to use 127.255.0.1 instead of ipv4 localhost?

[bsanchezb]

Hi @slavistan ,

DSS does not expose variables for server settings configuration, as the project is only a demo and not meant to be used in production. However, you may try to use maven-assembly-plugin to provide a custom server.xml configuration file. For that you will need to put a modified server.xml file within resources/tomcat/conf/ folder and the assembly-plugin will substitute the file when building the bundle.

Probably, there should be also other ways to automate the configuration but that is out of scope of DSS and I personally did not test that much.

Best regards, Aleksandr.

[slavistan]

@bsanchezb Thank you very much. I'll try out your suggestion.