diff --git a/src/main/kotlin/center/sciprog/Application.kt b/src/main/kotlin/center/sciprog/Application.kt
index 9d66819..afa6952 100644
--- a/src/main/kotlin/center/sciprog/Application.kt
+++ b/src/main/kotlin/center/sciprog/Application.kt
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ package center.sciprog
 import io.ktor.server.application.Application
 import io.ktor.server.application.call
 import io.ktor.server.application.install
+import io.ktor.server.application.log
+import io.ktor.server.config.tryGetString
 import io.ktor.server.plugins.forwardedheaders.ForwardedHeaders
 import io.ktor.server.plugins.forwardedheaders.XForwardedHeaders
 import io.ktor.server.response.respondRedirect
@@ -10,17 +12,55 @@ import io.ktor.server.routing.get
 import io.ktor.server.routing.routing
 import space.kscience.dataforge.context.Global
 import space.kscience.dataforge.context.request
-import space.kscience.dataforge.data.DataSet
 import space.kscience.dataforge.data.DataTree
-import space.kscience.dataforge.data.node
-import space.kscience.dataforge.data.populateFrom
-import space.kscience.dataforge.misc.DFExperimental
 import space.kscience.snark.html.SiteBuilder
 import space.kscience.snark.html.SnarkHtmlPlugin
 import space.kscience.snark.html.readDirectory
 import space.kscience.snark.ktor.prepareSnarkDataCacheDirectory
 import space.kscience.snark.ktor.site
+import java.nio.file.FileSystems
+import java.nio.file.Files
 import java.nio.file.Path
+import kotlin.io.path.createDirectories
+import kotlin.io.path.isRegularFile
+import kotlin.io.path.relativeTo
+import kotlin.io.path.toPath
+
+
+private fun Application.copyResource(resource: String, dataDirectory: Path) {
+    val uri = javaClass.getResource("/$resource")?.toURI()
+        ?: error("Resource $resource not found")
+    val targetPath = dataDirectory.resolve(resource)
+
+    if (Files.isDirectory(targetPath)) {
+        log.info("Using existing data directory at $targetPath.")
+    } else {
+        log.info("Copying data from $uri into $targetPath.")
+        targetPath.createDirectories()
+        //Copy everything into a temporary directory
+
+        fun copyFromPath(rootPath: Path) {
+            Files.walk(rootPath).forEach { source: Path ->
+                if (source.isRegularFile()) {
+                    val relative = source.relativeTo(rootPath).toString()
+                    val destination: Path = targetPath.resolve(relative)
+                    destination.parent.createDirectories()
+                    Files.copy(source, destination)
+                }
+            }
+        }
+
+        if ("jar" == uri.scheme) {
+            FileSystems.newFileSystem(uri, emptyMap<String, Any>()).use { fs ->
+                val rootPath: Path = fs.provider().getPath(uri)
+                copyFromPath(rootPath)
+            }
+        } else {
+            val rootPath = uri.toPath()
+            copyFromPath(rootPath)
+        }
+    }
+}
 
 
 @Suppress("unused")
@@ -29,12 +69,19 @@ fun Application.spcModule() {
     install(ForwardedHeaders)
     install(XForwardedHeaders)
 
-    val dataPath = Path.of("data")
-
-    prepareSnarkDataCacheDirectory(dataPath)
-
     val snark = Global.request(SnarkHtmlPlugin)
-    val siteData = snark.readDirectory(dataPath)
+
+    val dataDirectory = Path.of(
+        environment.config.tryGetString("ktor.environment.dataDirectory") ?: "data"
+    )
+
+    if (!prepareSnarkDataCacheDirectory(dataDirectory)) {
+        copyResource("common", dataDirectory)
+        copyResource("home", dataDirectory)
+        copyResource("magprog", dataDirectory)
+    }
+
+    val siteData: DataTree<Any> = snark.readDirectory(dataDirectory)
 
     site(snark, siteData, block = SiteBuilder::spcSite)
 
diff --git a/src/main/kotlin/center/sciprog/spcSite.kt b/src/main/kotlin/center/sciprog/spcSite.kt
index 18e0632..a3ffba5 100644
--- a/src/main/kotlin/center/sciprog/spcSite.kt
+++ b/src/main/kotlin/center/sciprog/spcSite.kt
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@ private fun <T : Any> DataSet<T>.siteData(branchName: String): DataTree<T> = Dat
 }
 
 fun SiteBuilder.spcSite() {
-//    val commonData = data.branch("common")
     spcHome(data.siteData("home"))
     spcMasters(data.siteData("magprog"))
 //    bmk(data.branch("bmk").withBranch("common", commonData))
diff --git a/src/main/resources/application.conf b/src/main/resources/application.conf
index 1933922..612a5b6 100644
--- a/src/main/resources/application.conf
+++ b/src/main/resources/application.conf
@@ -9,4 +9,8 @@ ktor {
     }
 
     development = true
+
+    environment{
+        production = false
+    }
 }
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