Jetty/Starting/Downloads

Introduction

Jetty 7 and Jetty 8 are now EOL (End of Life)

THIS IS NOT THE DOCUMENTATION YOU ARE LOOKING FOR!!!!!

All development and stable releases are being performed with Jetty 9 and Jetty 10.

This wiki is now officially out of date and all content has been moved to the Jetty Documentation Hub

Direct Link to updated documentation: http://www.eclipse.org/jetty/documentation/current/quick-start-getting-started.html

You can download Jetty as a distribution bundle, a Maven dependency, an OSGi bundle, or install it via a Debian/RPM distribution. When you download and unpack the binary, it is extracted into a directory called jetty-distribution-VERSION. Put this directory into a convenient location. The rest of the instructions in this wiki will refer to this location as either JETTY_HOME or as $(jetty.home).

Jetty@eclipse Download

Eclipse Downloads
- Core Jetty Web Server (HTTP & Websocket)
- Core Jetty Servlet Container
- JNDI, JMX, OSGi, JASPI modules
- HTTP Client

JETTY_VERSION=7.5.0.v20110901
wget http://download.eclipse.org/jetty/$JETTY_VERSION/dist/jetty-distribution-$JETTY_VERSION.tar.gz
tar xfz jetty-distribution-$JETTY_VERSION.tar.gz
cd jetty-distribution-$JETTY_VERSION
java -jar start.jar

Jetty@codehaus Download

Codehaus Downloads:
- Hightide Application Server (Jetty WebServer plus EE features)
- Jetty with non-eclipse modules: JSP, Spring, Terracotta, Openspaces, etc.
- Jetty Maven plugin
- Debian, RPM distributions
- Older Jetty releases

wget http://dist.codehaus.org/jetty/jetty-hightide-8.0.0/jetty-hightide-8.0.0.v20110901.tar.gz
tar xfz jetty-hightide-8.0.0.v20110901.tar.gz
cd jetty-hightide-8.0.0.v20110901
java -jar start.jar

Maven Repositories

The distribution bundles from both Eclipse and Codehaus are available as Maven artefacts:

jetty@eclipse (snapshots)
jetty@codehaus (snapshots)

The individual Jetty modules are also available as Maven artefacts under the org.eclipse.jetty and org.mortbay.jetty group IDs. See Jetty/Howto/Use Jetty with Maven for more details.

OSGi Update Repositories

Jetty is available as OSGi bundles from P2 update sites: Jetty 7.x P2 Update and Jetty 8.x P2 Update.

Source Download

Each jetty module has an equivalent jar containing the sources for that module. These sources jars have the same name as the binary jar, but with a "-sources" qualifier. These can be found on the maven repository at http://repo2.maven.org/maven2/org/eclipse/jetty in the relevant jetty module directories.

Additionally, we provide some handy binary and source jars that contain a useful mixture of classes. The list of these aggregate jars is at http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/eclipse/jetty/aggregate/.

Linux Distributions

Distribution Contents

Here's a quick rundown of the distribution's contents. The top-level directory contains:

LICENSE-APACHE-2.0.TXT : license file for Jetty (Jetty 7 is dual-licensed)
LICENSE-ECLIPSE-1.0.HTML : license file for Jetty (Jetty 7 is dual-licensed)
META-INF : for packaging
README.txt : contains useful getting started information
VERSION.txt : Release information
about.html : "About This Content" page from Eclipse
bin : utility shell scripts to help run Jetty on unix systems
contexts : hot deploy contexts directory
etc : directory for Jetty configuration files
javadoc : contains the javadoc
lib : contains all the JAR files necessary to run jetty
logs : directory for request logs
notice.html : licenses information and exceptions.
resources : directory containing additional resources for classpath
start.ini : Default start arguments
start.jar : JAR which invokes jetty-7 (see also How to Run Jetty)
webapps : directory containing webapps which will be run under the default configuration of Jetty; contains demo webapps

Starting and Stopping

To start:

/etc/init.d/jetty start

To stop:

/etc/init.d/jetty stop

Other commands:

/etc/init.d/jetty help

Using setuid

When using the setuid feature you need to ensure that the $JETTY_HOME/etc/jetty-setuid.xml file is first on the list of xml files to execute. To do this, edit the $JETTY_HOME/etc/jetty.conf file and insert the line "--pre=etc/jetty-setuid.xml" before "--pre=etc/jetty-logging.xml". Like this:

# ========================================================
# jetty.conf Configuration for jetty.sh script
# --------------------------------------------------------
# This file is used by the jetty.sh script to provide 
# extra configuration arguments for the start.jar command
# created by that script.
# 
# Each line in this file becomes an argument to start.jar
# unless this file contains an --ini option, then these
# arguments will be in addition to those found in the
# start.ini file
# =======================================================
--pre=etc/jetty-setuid.xml
--pre=etc/jetty-logging.xml

Old Jetty-6 Linux distros

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