installation guide for ubuntu

java/INSTALL.md

@@ -0,0 +1,130 @@
+#  Installation guide without docker
+
+## Ubuntu
+
+### Install Java
+
+```sh
+sudo apt update
+sudo apt install openjdk-17-jdk
+java -version
+```
+
+### Install and configure PostgreSQL
+
+```sh
+sudo apt install postgresql
+
+sudo -u postgres psql
+ALTER USER postgres with encrypted password '<password>';
+quit
+sudo systemctl restart postgresql.service
+```
+
+#### Verify
+```sh
+psql postgresql://postgres:<password>@localhost:5432/postgres`
+quit
+```
+
+### Install Gradle
+
+```
+sudo apt intall unzip
+wget https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-8.11.1-bin.zip  -P /tmp
+sudo mkdir /opt/gradle
+sudo unzip -d /opt/gradle /tmp/gradle-8.11.1-bin.zip
+export PATH=$PATH:/opt/gradle/gradle-8.11.1/bin
+```
+
+### Install Tomcat
+
+```
+sudo useradd -m -U -d /opt/tomcat -s /bin/false tomcat
+VERSION=10.1.4
+wget https://www-eu.apache.org/dist/tomcat/tomcat-10/v${VERSION}/bin/apache-tomcat-${VERSION}.tar.gz -P /tmp
+sudo tar -xf /tmp/apache-tomcat-${VERSION}.tar.gz -C /opt/tomcat/
+sudo ln -s /opt/tomcat/apache-tomcat-${VERSION} /opt/tomcat/latest
+sudo chown -R tomcat: /opt/tomcat
+sudo sh -c 'chmod +x /opt/tomcat/latest/bin/*.sh'
+```
+
+#### Systemd for tomcat
+location:
+```
+/etc/systemd/system/tomcat.service
+```
+content:
+
+```
+[Unit]
+Description=Tomcat 10 servlet container
+After=network.target
+
+[Service]
+Type=forking
+
+User=tomcat
+Group=tomcat
+
+Environment="JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-17-openjdk-amd64"
+Environment="JAVA_OPTS=-Djava.security.egd=file:///dev/urandom -Djava.awt.headless=true"
+
+Environment="CATALINA_BASE=/opt/tomcat/latest"
+Environment="CATALINA_HOME=/opt/tomcat/latest"
+Environment="CATALINA_PID=/opt/tomcat/latest/temp/tomcat.pid"
+Environment="CATALINA_OPTS=-Xms512M -Xmx1024M -server -XX:+UseParallelGC"
+
+ExecStart=/opt/tomcat/latest/bin/startup.sh
+ExecStop=/opt/tomcat/latest/bin/shutdown.sh
+
+[Install]
+WantedBy=multi-user.target
+```
+
+#### Enable and start tomcat
+
+```
+sudo systemctl daemon-reload
+sudo systemctl enable --now tomcat
+sudo systemctl status tomcat
+```
+
+### Clone repo
+```
+git clone https://github.com/lightningdevkit/vss-server.git
+cd vss-server/java
+```
+
+### Configure by editing password for postgres in this file for the same one used in step 2
+```
+./app/src/main/resources/application.properties
+```
+
+### Build
+```
+gradle wrapper --gradle-version 8.1.1
+./gradlew build -x test  # Running tests requires docker-engine to be running.
+```
+
+### Deploy
+```
+sudo cp app/build/libs/vss-1.0.war /opt/tomcat/latest/webapps/vss.war
+```
+
+### Verify deployment
+
+```
+curl --data-binary "$(echo "0A0773746F726549641A150A026B3110FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF011A046B317631" | xxd -r -p)" http://localhost:8080/vss/putObjects
+
+curl --data-binary "$(echo "0A0773746F7265496412026B31" | xxd -r -p)" http://localhost:8080/vss/getObject
+```
+
+### Enable vss in nginx by adding:
+```
+location /vss/ {
+        proxy_pass http://localhost:8080/vss/;
+}
+```
+
+Restart nginx and try previous step from the external host machine

java/README.md

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 - Install Docker (https://docs.docker.com/desktop/).
 - Install PostgreSQL 15 (https://www.postgresql.org/download/).
 
+
+### Installation without docker
+
+see [here](./INSTALL.md)
+
 ### Building
 
 ```
@@ -46,7 +51,7 @@ gradle wrapper --gradle-version 8.1.1
 
 #### To run just the VSS-server:
 
-1. **Edit Configuration**: Modify the Dockerfile or application.properties to set application configurations and
+1. **Edit Configuration**: Modify the Dockerfile or `./app/src/main/resources/application.properties` to set application configurations and
    environment variables as needed. Add PostgreSQL endpoint configuration.
 2. Create table in PostgreSQL using `./app/src/main/java/org/vss/impl/postgres/sql/`
 3. **Build the Docker Image**: