Installation of the Pineapple deployable web application

This guide describes how the Pineapple deployable web application is installed.

Download the client

Download the client pineapple-web-application-VERSION.war from the Downloads page.

Make Pineapple executable

If the pineapple-web-application-VERSION.war isn't executable then:

  1. Open a Linux terminal and change directory (CD) to the directory where the WAR is located.
  2. Execute: chmod +x ./pineapple-web-application-VERSION.war

Deploy Pineapple

Deploy the WAR to your web container of your choice and start the application.

The application listens on the URL: ${hostname}.

Creation of the default configuration

When Pineapple is started then it will look for configuration files in the Pineapple Home Directory.

If no configuration files are found then it will a create a default configuration which allows the application to start and provides a starting point to using the supplied examples.