Author: Sanket Kangle
First of all, if you do not know how to create a domain project, follow this article. Now when you are ready with a domain project and other applications dependent on that, and you want to deploy it on-premise server(in this demo, our local machine), you can follow the following steps.
Step 1: getting the standalone server up and running
Download and extract the Mule 4 standalone from here. Extract it to a suitable location. Add that address in your environment variable. You should see the following folder structure in the extracted folder.
Go to the “bin” folder and open the command prompt there. Run “Mule.bat” command there(for Windows system)
Step 2: deploying domain project on this standalone server
Extract the deployable jar of the domain project and copy it to the “domains” folder in your standalone directory
As soon as you add it, the standalone server will automatically extract it and start deploying it.
You should see it gets deployed and an anchor file is created in the folder as well. If you delete that anchor file, your application will get undeployed.
You can also see that the default domain is also there with our custom domain.
Step 3: deploy application associated with domain project
Same as the above step, put your deployable jar file of the project in the “apps” folder instead of “domains”
Your application will be deployed
This application will also have an anchor file, which if you delete, will undeploy your application.
When removed anchor file, it gets undeployed as below
You can simply place the jar file again in the folder to deploy the application again.
Hope this was helpful. Happy learning!
