Liftweb Jetty run-script. Download a standard jetty dist tarball, extract it, put this script into the folder, update the variables at the top, copy your .war-file to webapps/ and run it.

run.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash
# yeah this really needs a bash!

NAME="lift project (change this in $0)"
RAMSIZE=256M
BASEPORT=8040
USAGE="Usage: $0 [start|stop] [dev|prev|prod]"

if [ $# -ne 2 ]; then echo $USAGE && exit 1; fi

case "$2" in
        dev*)
                UPPORT=2
                MODE=development
                LOGSUFFIX=
                ;;
        prev*)
                UPPORT=1
                MODE=preview
                LOGSUFFIX=
                ;;
        prod*)
                UPPORT=0
                MODE=production
                LOGSUFFIX=.prod
                ;;
        *)
                echo $USAGE && exit 1
esac

# switch to jetty home where this script is located
export JETTY_HOME=$(cd `dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}"` && pwd)
cd $JETTY_HOME

PORT=$(expr $BASEPORT + $UPPORT)
PIDFILE=${MODE}.pid

case "$1" in
        start)
                echo "Starting jetty for '$NAME' at $PORT with $RAMSIZE in mode $MODE"
                nohup java -Xmx${RAMSIZE} -Drun.mode=${MODE} \
                        -Djetty.port=$PORT -Djetty.home=$JETTY_HOME \
                        -jar start.jar >> logs/std${LOGSUFFIX}.out 2>> logs/err${LOGSUFFIX}.out &
                echo $! > ${PIDFILE}
                echo "The PID is $!"

                ;;
        stop)
                echo "Stopping jetty for '$NAME' at $PORT with $RAMSIZE in mode $MODE"

                kill -9 $(cat ${PIDFILE})
                rm ${PIDFILE}
                ;;
        restart)
                $0 stop $2
                $0 start $2
                ;;
        *)
                echo $USAGE && exit 1
esac
exit 0