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- title: Installing a Web Server
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- [[installing.server]]
- = Installing a Web Server
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- You can run Vaadin applications in any Java servlet container that supports at least Servlet API 3.0.
- Server push can benefit from using communication modes, such as WebSocket, enabled by features in some latest servers.
- For Java EE containers, at least Wildfly, Glassfish, and Apache TomEE Web Profile are recommended.
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- Some Java IDEs have server integration, so we describe installation of the server before the IDEs.
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- Some IDE bundles also include a development server; for example, NetBeans IDE includes GlassFish and Apache Tomcat.
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- You can also opt to install a development server from a Maven dependency and let the IDE control it through Maven executions.
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- [[installing.server.tomcat]]
- == Installing Apache Tomcat
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- Apache Tomcat is a lightweight Java web server suitable for both development and
- production. There are many ways to install it, but here we simply decompress the
- installation package.
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- __Apache Tomcat should be installed with user permissions.__
- During development, you will be running Eclipse or some other IDE with user permissions, but deploying web applications to a Tomcat server that is installed system-wide requires administrator or root permissions.
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- . Download the installation package:
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- Apache Tomcat 8.0 (Core Binary Distribution) from http://tomcat.apache.org/
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- . Decompress Apache Tomcat package to a suitable target directory, such as
- [filename]#C:\dev# (Windows) or [filename]#/opt# (Linux or Mac OS X).
- The Apache Tomcat home directory will be [filename]#C:\dev\apache-tomcat-8.0.x# or [filename]#/opt/apache-tomcat-8.0.x#, respectively.
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- Do not start the server.
- If you use an IDE integration, the IDE will control starting and stopping the server.
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