When running a Lift application on CloudBees the Lift run.mode will default to "development". This servlet filter will set the run.mode based on the value set in the cloudbees-web.xml configuration, defaulting to development if not set.
This means a local container:start will default to development mode, but a CloudBees deployment will default to production mode (or whatever value you put in the WEB-INF/cloudbees-web.xml file).
There are three modifications you need to make to your Lift application based on the contents of this repository.
First, copy the src/main/scala/net.liftmodules.cloudbees.servlet/CloudBeesLiftFilter.scala from this project into your project.
Next, modify your src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml to remove this line...
<filter-class>net.liftweb.http.LiftFilter</filter-class>
...and replace it with this line:
<filter-class>net.liftmodules.cloudbees.servlet.CloudBeesLiftFilter</filter-class>
Finally, if you already have src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/cloudbees-web.xml then add the following lines after the appid:
<context-param>
<param-name>run.mode</param-name>
<param-value>production</param-value>
</context-param>
If you don't have a cloudbees-web.xml, copy the example one from this repository.
Bonus step!
You may need to add the Servlet API as a dependency in your SBT build file if you don't already have it:
"javax.servlet" % "servlet-api" % "2.5" % "provided->default"
This git repository contains a Lift application. Run it via:
$ sbt
> container:start
Open http://127.0.0.1:8080/ to see the report: "Your run mode is development".
Run it via a CloudBees on in your local bees environment:
$ sbt package
$ bees app:run ./target/scala-2.9.1/cloudbees-lift-filter_2.9.1-0.1-SNAPSHOT.war
..and it'll report "Your run mode is Production".