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I've had a few e-mails over the past weeks asking about how to run Pebble on Jetty so thought that I would post the instructions here before adding them to the Pebble user guide.

1. Extract the WAR file to the $JETTY_HOME/webapps directory.
2. Edit the WEB-INF/web.xml file, setting the blog.url, blog.dir and blog.multiUser parameters as appropriate.
3. Define the security realm in the $JETTY_HOME/etc/jetty.xml file (the example below uses a simple username-password pair in plain text).

   <Call name="addRealm">
     <Arg>
       <New class="org.mortbay.http.HashUserRealm">
         <Arg>Pebble Realm</Arg>
         <Put name="simon">password</Put>
         <Call name="addUserToRole">
           <Arg>simon</Arg>
           <Arg>blog-owner</Arg>
         </Call>
         <Call name="addUserToRole">
           <Arg>simon</Arg>
           <Arg>blog-contributor</Arg>
         </Call>
       </New>
     </Arg>
   </Call>
   

If you are deploying Pebble to Jetty, it is important that you do define a security role before starting up the server. If you don't, you'll get the error page (indicating that "something has gone wrong") when you try to access a secure page. Let me know if you have any problems.