Angular project(dist folder) deployment in Websphere Application server

Question

can any one provide the steps to deploy the Angular "ng build" command generated /dist folder in IBM Websphere application server.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

I use it at work but i don't really know the configuration of the server. On the application side you can do the following:

Manual method

1. Compile in production mode

2. Create a folder WEB-INF : in this folder configure a web.xml with the information you need (in my case datasources, basic authentication and http operations allowed)

3. Create a folder META-INF containing a manifest.MF (bretty much useless for me) and a context.xml containing only the context path of the application

4. Put theese folders alongside the compiled code

5. Now create a.war file: i use a terminal command like this:

   jar -cvf yourProject.war -C C:\...\yourProject\dist\yourProject. Basically it means: take all the files inside the specified path (the dot is important) and create a war with them.

IDE method

I use NetBeans because with an IDE is all more confortable. The main difference is that you don't launch the jar -cvf manually , but you simply build the project, and depending which ide you're using the context.xml , the manifest.mf and the web.xml might be already there.

Before that you want to copy the compiled code into the Web Pages folder , then I build the project.

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Finally I install the application using the IBM console. Hope this works for you!

PS This method is a little bit clunky, maybe there is a better one...