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Introduction

  • This article guides you through creating and hosting a Spring Boot application on Square Cloud.
  • Before getting started, make sure you have an account on Square Cloud, which can be done through the sign up page. You can use your email to create an account.
  • Finally, you need to have an active paid plan with on your account. You can view our plans and purchase one according to your needs here.

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Creating Your Project

  • First you’ll need to install a JDK and a package manager to help you manage the project like maven.
  • You can create a base project on Spring Initializr.
  • You need to configure the application.properties to open the webserver on host 0.0.0.0 and port 80. Look the example below:
server.properties
server.port=80
server.address=0.0.0.0
  • After this configuration and when the project is ready, build it into a jar file with the command of your build tool.
mvn clean package

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Uploading the Project to Square Cloud

  • You need to find your project jar file and create a zip containing it.
  • After preparing your project files, you can now upload them to Square Cloud and host your project.
  • Remember to check “Publish on the Web” when you do the upload.
  • Upload via Dashboard
  • Upload via CLI
Access the Square Cloud Dashboard and upload your project files.