Question

I am aware of at least two local options to deploy Play apps, this is, either copying the whole thing and running play start, or exporting a war to run it as part of another app server.

I’ve also used the deploy mechanisms for gae and heroku. Very neat.

However, what I want to do is:

• deploy locally to my servers (there will be a bunch of them that receive the same copy, behind a load balancer).
• run just play with netty, so no war into tomcat/jboss/you name it
• do NOT deploy the source code, git files, etc…. Just the mimimum necessary (precompiled, config, templates I guess, public dir, …)

Is there a command or option that I’ve missed in play to do this? Maybe exporting a war and running it from a different play server, if that makes sense? Or am I going to find out what is needed and not after a precompile and copy over only that?

EDIT:

The accepted answer is what I was looking for, but is not available on 1.2.x. Eventually I created my own script, where the most important bits are:

1. run play precompile
2. Copy the conf/, precompiled/, public/, lib/ and app/views/ directories to the location where you want to deploy (my script does a tar.gz of that and uncompresses it there).
3. run play start -Dprecompiled=true

Answer 1

This is for Play 2, not Play 1.

Run play dist to generate a zip that you can copy anywhere and run. More details…