Hi experts,
Newbie question about deploying my first Flex application...
My current environment is:
Hosted Linux dedicated server running GlassFish fronted by Apache webserver:
- Apache Webserver
Directory structure is:
public_html (folder)
index.html
myWebsiteFiles (folder containing all my website files)
- GlassFish Java application server (BlazeDS, Java POJOs/Applets)
Directory structure is:
myWebApp (folder)
WEB-INF (folder)
web.xml
lib (folder)
flex (folder for BlazeDS settings)
classes (folder containing all Java stuff)
META-INF (folder)
Local development desktop computer:
- MacPro OSx running Flash Builder 4.6
Flash Builder settings:
Properties > Run/Debug Settings > Main > Edit > URL or Path to Launch:
/local/path/to/folder/bin-debug/Main.html
Currently everything runs great, but as you can see, the files run from my
local computer's bin-debug directory. However, it does prove that all the Java
and BlazeDS stuff works fine.
I know the next step is to execute from Flash Builder: Project > Export Release
Build... and this generates the required files in a bin-release folder that I
need to copy to the server. But, where do I place these files on the server?
Tutorial #1 says, copy files in bin-release folder to the website's public_html
folder:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0YTZm1v7qQ
Tutorial #2 says, copy files in bin-release folder to the Tomcat (or, GlassFish
in my case) application server webapp directory (I'm guessing, this is
somewhere in the WEB-INF folder?):
http://www.tutorialspoint.com/flex/flex_quick_guide.htm
Are both methods possible? If so, is one preferred over the other? Or, what are
the tradeoffs to consider in making this decision? (My application is about 5
MB in size)
If the recommendation is to place in GlassFish webserver, which folder on the
server should I copy all of the bin-release folder's files to from my Mac? Is
it: myWebApp/bin-release?
And, I assume I'd then need to instruct Apache webserver to send all of the
webapp traffic to GlassFish somehow (is that right? I believe I had to do that
for the Java traffic to get routed correctly originally)?
I tried to find this on Google, but most instructions at this point simply say
"deploy to webserver". I'm not using Ant or anything else; just moving the
files manually.
Thanks in advance for any comments.
