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Tomcat notes
Deployment of a web application (WAR) in Tomcat
A quick way to deploy an application in Tomcat is just to follow this tip:
How do I deploy a WAR file in Tomcat?
1. Stop Tomcat 2. Delete existing deployments (directories of your WAR file). 3. Copy WAR file to the webapps directory in Tomcat. 4. Start Tomcat
This quick-n-dirty script does that:
#!/bin/sh
set -x
export CATALINA_HOME=<your Tomcat installation>
app=$1
jar cvf ${app}.war ${app}
cd ${CATALINA_HOME}/bin
sh shutdown.sh
cd -
rm -rf ${CATALINA_HOME}/webapps/${app}
mv ${app}.war ${CATALINA_HOME}/webapps/
cd ${CATALINA_HOME}/bin
sh startup.sh
Just call it, passing your web application directory as the first parameter::
$ deploy-war.sh mywebapp/