deploying a liberty war file to bluemix liberty gives error 400

Question

After creating a WAR file using maven successfully, I tried uploading the WAR file to Liberty on Bluemix. I used the following command:

cf push wallet -p ./wallet-service/target/wallet-service-1.1-SNAPSHOT.war
Creating app wallet in org [email protected] / space jax-rs as [email protected]...

Got following response:

"OK

Creating route wallet.mybluemix.net... FAILED Server error, status code: 400, error code: 210003, message: The host is taken: wallet"

What does that mean and more importantly, how do you fix it?

Answer 1

The above error message means the hostname wallet is taken. You are assigned a hostname on a shared domain of mybluemix.net. You can fix this issue by choosing a unique name. You can keep the name of the app to be wallet but choose a unique hostname with the following command.

cf push wallet -n somethingunique -p ./wallet-service/target/wallet-service-1.1-SNAPSHOT.war

The -n argument allows to give a hostname to the app.

Additionally, you can point your own domain to Bluemix and use that with your app.