When I deploy my java app to IBM Bluemix using Liberty, the buildpack renames it to myapp.war. How to retain my original war file name?

Question

I have created a sample java application and packaged it JavaHelloWorldApp.war.

I deploy it to IBM Bluemix using the command cf push MyHelloWorldApp -p JavaHelloWorldApp.war

After deploy, when I navigate to Runtime file of my deployed application I see that the war file name is shown as myapp.war. See the image in the link below

I would like to retain my original war file name. As I want to encode my app version details in the war file name and would like the retain it for the reference. How to achieve it?

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 09 '16 at 05:29

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Push a liberty server package zip instead of the war

https://www.ibm.com/blogs/bluemix/2015/01/modify-liberty-server-xml-configurations-ibm-bluemix/

answered Dec 09 '16 at 05:29

Ram Vennam

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Nice article. I tried the same without installing liberty profile. I gave the steps below. – Mustansir Ali Dec 13 '16 at 06:39

Mustansir Ali · Answer 2 · 2016-12-15T06:18:52.827

Without Liberty profile :

I could retain the war file name by deploying the JavaHelloWorldApp.war. I have listed the steps below:-

Follow the step provided at Bluemix documentation https://console.ng.bluemix.net/docs/runtimes/liberty/optionsForPushing.html

Go to section Server Directory -> then follow steps for, If a Liberty profile is not installed on your workstation, you can use the following steps to create a server directory with your application...
Follow all the steps listed there.

Finally the defaultServer directory structure should look like this.

My server.xml looks like as given below

 <server>
    <featureManager>
        <feature>servlet-3.1</feature>
    </featureManager>

    <httpEndpoint id="defaultHttpEndpoint"
              host="*"
              httpPort="${port}">
        <tcpOptions soReuseAddr="true"/>
    </httpEndpoint>

    <application name="JavaHelloWorldApp" context-  
     root="/JavaHelloWorldApp" location="JavaHelloWorldApp.war"     
     type="war"/>
 </server>

Now to deploy defaultServer run command: cf push -p defaultServer
The java application will deploy into Bluemix and the war file name will be named JavaHelloWorldApp.war, same as the application war file
name.Snapshot below :-

When I deploy my java app to IBM Bluemix using Liberty, the buildpack renames it to myapp.war. How to retain my original war file name?

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