Tomcat war file deploy

If anything goes wrong, check the log files e. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? Collectives on Stack Overflow. Learn more. How to deploy a war file in Tomcat 7 Ask Question. Asked 10 years, 10 months ago. Active 4 months ago. Viewed k times. Improve this question. John John. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Andrei I Bozho Bozho k gold badges silver badges bronze badges.

What if I want to deploy my sample. Or should it be in my application I am deploying? I prefer it to be within the application — Bozho. Show 2 more comments. Bumptious Q Bangwhistle 4, 2 2 gold badges 32 32 silver badges 42 42 bronze badges. Ferdous Wahid Ferdous Wahid 2, 3 3 gold badges 25 25 silver badges 27 27 bronze badges.

Thank you! Additionally, I needed to set permissions to my newly installed Tomcat directory structure so that my WAR could be extracted and log files could be generated. You just need to put your war file in webapps and then start your server.

Unfortunately it doesn't work! Would you like to test my specific war file?! Please download "linshare-core H tail the log when you start the server after placing war, you will find why it is not working — jmj. WAR is dropped into the appBase. For this to work, the Host needs to have background processing enabled which is the default configuration. Manual steps - Windows Copy the. If the Host autoDeploy attribute is "true", the Host will attempt to deploy and update web applications dynamically, as needed, for example if a new.

WAR is dropped into the appBase. For this to work, the Host needs to have background processing enabled which is the default configuration. Note that web application reloading can also be configured in the loader, in which case loaded classes will be tracked for changes.

The Tomcat Manager is covered in its own manual page. Finally, deployment of web application may be achieved using the Tomcat Client Deployer. This is a package which can be used to validate, compile, compress to. WAR, and deploy web applications to production or development Tomcat servers. It should be noted that this feature uses the Tomcat Manager and as such the target Tomcat server should be running. Apache Ant is a scripted build tool. The TCD comes pre-packaged with a build script to use.

Only a modest understanding of Apache Ant is required installation as listed earlier in this page, and familiarity with using the operating system command shell and configuring environment variables. The validator task class org. ValidatorTask allows only one parameter: the base path of an exploded web application. The TCD uses an exploded web application as input see the list of the properties used below.

In order for the deployment to be configured, create a file called deployer. Additionally, you will need to ensure that a user has been setup for the target Tomcat Manager which TCD uses otherwise the TCD will not authenticate with the Tomcat Manager and the deployment will fail.

To do this, see the Tomcat Manager page. Statically; the web application is setup before Tomcat is started Dynamically; by directly manipulating already deployed web applications relying on auto-deployment feature or remotely by using the Tomcat Manager web application The Tomcat Manager is a web application that can be used interactively via HTML GUI or programmatically via URL-based API to deploy and manage web applications. Read Using the Tomcat Client Deployer.

The following deployment sequence will occur on Tomcat startup in that case: Any Context Descriptors will be deployed first. Exploded web applications not referenced by any Context Descriptor will then be deployed. This is very convenient and can be built into an Ant script. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group.

Create a free Team What is Teams? Collectives on Stack Overflow. Learn more. Tomcat not autodeploying war file Ask Question. Asked 11 years ago. Active 2 years, 7 months ago. Viewed k times. I followed the following steps Shutdown Tomcat Deployed a war file with a timestamp of 1st December Start Tomcat - This created the exploded directory for the deployed war file.

Stop Tomcat Updated the war file with a new one with a timestamp of 3rd December Restart Tomcat I found that when i restarted Tomcat, the existing files in the folder that was expanded previously were not updated. Autodeploy is set to true in server. Improve this question.

Andreas Dolk k 16 16 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. DwB DwB I adopted second solution, just make a script to do it. I use the second approach but without deleting the exploded directory. Thats the bit that not working :0 — ziggy. Tomcat explains this with this paragraph: "Any web application archive file within the application base appBase directory that does not have a corresponding directory of the same name without the ".

If you redeploy an updated WAR file, be sure to delete the expanded directory when restarting Tomcat, so that the updated WAR file will be re-expanded note that the auto deployer, if enabled, will automatically expand the updated WAR file once the previously expanded directory is removed. The thing is, that when you are in production, it's not easy to restart the application server, especially if other applications run under that server instance — stelios.