The examples in this guide specify URL resources using a host name of 'vasthost'. You must add a line to your 'hosts' file, or use any hostname valid for your environment in place of 'vasthost', in order to successfully execute the described examples.
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Before starting the example, make the changes to the hosts file if you want to actually deploy the Web service.

The examples in this guide rely on resources residing in a particular directory which is specified in the ini file as DefaultResourceQualifier. That directory must be accessible to you in order for the examples to work. It is recommended to consult the ini file for the location of DefaultResourceQualifier and then to copy the directory into a writable location such as the starting directory. Once this is done, update the ini file to point DefaultResourceQualifier to that directory. Only once this is done, launch the VAST image.