Running My Apps

To run a Laszlo application that you have created or modified, you must either:

• Put your .lzx files and art assets inside the my-apps folder or a subdirectory within the my-apps folder inside the lps-@VERSIONID@ Web application. For example, if you installed the LPS using the Windows installer, the my-apps directory is at:

      yourInstallationDir\jakarta-tomcat-4.1.12\webapps\lps-@VERSIONID@\my-apps

  For Linux and OS X, the my-apps directory is at:

      yourInstallationDir/jakarta-tomcat-4.1.12/webapps/lps-@VERSIONID@/my-apps

  To display the application in your browser, browse to:

      http://localhost:8080/lps-@VERSIONID@/my-apps/yourApplicationName.lzx

  If your modifications do not show, click the browser's reload button.

  or, you can

• Create your own Laszlo-enabled Web application inside your servlet container.
  To create a Laszlo-enabled Web application:
  1. Create a new directory for your application
  2. In this new directory, create a subdirectory called WEB-INF.
     Yes, it must be called WEB-INF just WEB-INF.
  3. Copy the lib and lps directories and web.xml file from the LPS web application into your web application.  For @VERSIONID@ you can find these directories at

     yourInstallationDir\jakarta-tomcat-4.1.12\webapps\lps-@VERSIONID@\WEB-INF (Windows)
     yourInstallationDir/jakarta-tomcat-4.1.12/webapps/lps-@VERSIONID@/WEB-INF (Linux) 

     For the Core, you can find these directories at

     yourInstallationDir\lps-@VERSIONID@\WEB-INF     (Windows Core edition)
     yourInstallationDir/lps/lps-@VERSIONID@/WEB-INF (Linux, OS-X Core edition)  

     Copy them into your applications WEB-INF directory.

     WARNING:Make sure you duplicate the precise directory structure of the WEB-INF directory when you place these files and directories into your newly-created directory.

  4. Put the .lzx files and art assets that make up your application inside the new directory you created, or put them into a subdirectory you create inside of it.
  5. Consult your servlet container documentation for a information about how to deploy this Web application into the container. For Tomcat, you can copy this directory into

           tomcatInstallationDirectory\webapps\your-application-dir (Windows)
           tomcatInstallationDirectory/webapps/your-application-dir (Linux, OS-X)

For more detailed information about program development, see the Program Development chapter of the Laszlo Developer's Guide.