Ubuntu Based Images

Create an EC2 instances from an Ortus BoxLang engine (Ubuntu Server 24.04 LTS) AMI (Amazon Machine Image). We have created several based Ubuntu based images.

Images
Status

BoxLang MiniServer

BoxLang with CommandBox

Software and tools installed matrix

On every Ubuntu based Cloud Server you will find software or tools to achieve best experience with our solutions. This software include:

Tool name

Version installed

BoxLang MiniServer

BoxLang with CommandBox

CommandBox

latest

BoxLang runtime

latest

(As OS binary)

(Into CommandBox)

BoxLang MiniServer (As OS binary)

latest

ColdBox Application

latest

Due these Cloud Servers are Ubuntu 24.04 LTS based, you can follow this link to know more about base software running.

Environment variables

Variable

Default value

Description

BOXLANG_HOME

/root/.boxlang

Directory where BoxLang place configs and modules

COMMANDBOX_HOME

/root/.commandbox

Directory where CommandBox place configs and modules

BOXLANG_TARGET_VERSION

latest

BoxLang version installed and to be used for BoxLang

BVM_HOME

/usr/local/boxlang

BoxLang Version Manager home

Default site

For every Linux based BoxLang Cloud Server a Systemd daemon is used to get up and running a Web Server on well know HTTP port 80/TCP. Depending of the server flavor this can be started using BoxLang MiniServer or CommandBox. If you want to start a custom site or application, you can update this daemon service if need it, or just only place your custom site or application under /web/boxlang-site/wwwroot directory.

Server
Red Hat like
Debian like
Daemon name

BoxLang MiniServer

boxlang-miniserver --host 0.0.0.0 --port 80 --webroot /web/boxlang-site/wwwroot --rewrites index.cfm

boxlang-miniserver --host 0.0.0.0 --port 80 --webroot /web/boxlang-site/wwwroot --rewrites index.cfm

boxlang-miniserver

BoxLang with CommandBox

/bin/box server start serverConfigFile=server.json

/usr/local/bin/box server start serverConfigFile=server.json

coldbox-site

If you only place your custom site under /web/boxlang-site/wwwroot remember to delete their content before in order to remove the sample ColdBox Application

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