Liberty on Windows/Linux - websphere-liberty

Question

I try to deploy a JAVA application on Liberty (I will use <> as place holder)
On Windows:
If I add my application in Eclipe with the help of the Add and Remove.. Ressource, the application runs successfully on Liberty. In \wlp\usr\servers\<ServerName>\apps a new file <MyAppName>.war.xml is created:
<dir sourceOnDisk="C:\<MyAppName>\<MyAppName>-source\src\main\webapp" targetInArchive="/"/>
On Windows:
If I create in \wlp\usr\servers\<ServerName>\apps the file <MyAppName>.war.xml manually and link it to the <MyApp>.war directory:
<dir sourceOnDisk="C:\Users\<userName>\Desktop\<MyAppName>.war" targetInArchive="/"/>
the application runs successfully.
On Linux:
I want now to deploy the same war on a Liberty server on linux. The problem is the structure of the directories- it is completely different than in Windows.
In the appl directory, there are the following subdirectories:
appl_dropins
wl_config
Where do I have to put the file <MyAppName>.war.xml? And the server.xml? Why is so different on Linux?
On Windows the structure was for the <ServerName> apps, dropins, logs,resources, tranlog, workarea + the File server.xml
Thank you in advance.

Answer 1

When you deploy directly from Eclipse it is pointing to the workspace by default, which is good for development, but not for deployment to other environments.
You have following options:
change publishing options in Eclipse to publish war by unchecking 'Run applications directly from workspace'
Export application from Eclipse using Export > War file
or create packaged server - right click on your server select Utilities > Package server and then use 'usr' option.
Packed server option is quite good for moving between environments, as it gathers all - application, server.xml, and any other files you had in the server folder. Then you just unzip archive on your target host and run the server.
As Alasdair said there is no difference in directory structure between Win and Linux, so either you have some different product on Linux, or it was heavily customized by someone or some tool.

Answer 2

Thank you for the fast answer.
I did as you said. I created the war <MyAppNewName.war> file, unzip it <MyAppNewName> and put it in the dropings directory. When I start the server, I get among other exceptions the following one:
[ERROR ] CWWKZ0005E: The server is not configured to handle the resource at location C:\kits\wlp-webProfile7-18.0.0.1\wlp\usr\servers\newTest\dropins\<MyAppNewName>\index.xhtml.
For the App in the orginal question, the file <MyAppName>.war.xml contained
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<archive>
<dir sourceOnDisk="C:\Users\userName\Desktop\MyAppName.war" targetInArchive="/"/>
<dir sourceOnDisk="C:\MyAppName\MyAppName-source\target\classes" targetInArchive="/WEB-INF/classes"/>
</archive>
In C:\MyAppName\MyAppName-source\target\classes there are the .class files and the war does not contain them.
So how do I add the .classes to the war?