How to do it...

  1. Because the application created by bee is in the development mode by default and it’s always a best practice to run an application in the production mode on the public facing servers, we have to change the RunMode as prod in $GOPATH/src/my-first-beego-project/conf/app.conf, as follows:
beego.RunMode = "prod"
  1. Include static files, configuration files, and templates as part of the Beego application bytecode file in a separate directory by executing the following commands:
$ mkdir $GOPATH/my-first-beego-app-deployment$ cp my-first-beego-project $GOPATH/my-first-beego-app-deployment$ cp -fr views $GOPATH/my-first-beego-app-deployment$ cp -fr static $GOPATH/my-first-beego-app-deployment$ cp -fr conf $GOPATH/my-first-beego-app-deployment ...

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