Linux

Log onto your server

First, let’s make sure the server has java installed

java -version

Does it say “-bash: java: command not found“?

Lets install openjdk:

sudo apt-get install openjdk-21-jre-headless

This will install openjdk version 21. But there are lots of alternatives available. SDKMAN is a great tool to install and manage java versions.

Now that we have java, let’s continue

Let’s create a installation directory in our servers home folder

mkdir ~/sys-api && cd ~/sys-api

Then go to GitHub in a browser to find latest release download

Copy the URL of the file server-shadow-x.x.x.zip

Then you can download that on your server

Remember to change x.x.x to the actual version when copy pasting

wget https://github.com/Krillsson/sys-API/releases/download/x.x.x/server-shadow-x.x.x.zip

Then we can unzip the content into the folder

unzip server-shadow-x.x.x.zip

Move into that directory

cd server-shadow-x.x.x

Use your favorite text editor to edit the user & password of the config

nano config/configuration.yml

Then press CTRL+X to exit nano (and press Y to save)

Now we can use nohup to run the process disconnected from the terminal

nohup ./run.sh &

Then press CTRL+C on your keyboard to get back to your terminal input

Now we can verify that the server started correctly by reading and following the latest lines in the output file

Let’s verify the server started correctly

tail -f nohup.out

If you see this message without any error after it. That means the server is up and running

[...]: Tomcat started on ports 8443 (https), 8080 (http) with context path '/'
[...]: Started SysAPIApplicationKt in 6.352 seconds (process running for 7.234)                                               

Again, press CTRL+C to get back to the terminal

Now you are ready to proceed to next step