[java] How to deploy a Java Web Application (.war) on tomcat?

I have a .war file of a Java Web Application. Now I want to upload it to my ftp server so that I can execute it.

What steps I should perform to run it?

The context path of the webapp is /mywebapp

Edit

Actually, my ftp server name is ftp://bilgin.ath.cx/ and I have uploaded my TestWebApp.war file to this dir: ftp://bilgin.ath.cx/web

Then what should be the URL to access the index.html page of the webapplication

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Tomcat is listening on 8082

Apache access Tomcat with jk connector.

Note that you can deploy remotely using HTTP.

http://localhost:8080/manager/deploy

Upload the web application archive (WAR) file that is specified as the request data in this HTTP PUT request, install it into the appBase directory of our corresponding virtual host, and start it using the war file name without the .war extension as the path. The application can later be undeployed (and the corresponding application directory removed) by use of the /undeploy. To deploy the ROOT web application (the application with a context path of "/"), name the war ROOT.war.

and if you're using Ant you can do this using Tomcat Ant tasks (perhaps following a successful build).

To determine which path you then hit on your browser, you need to know the port Tomcat is running on, the context and your servlet path. See here for more details.

The tomcat manual says:

Copy the web application archive file into directory $CATALINA_HOME/webapps/. When Tomcat is started, it will automatically expand the web application archive file into its unpacked form, and execute the application that way.

Log in :URL = "localhost:8080/" Enter username and pass word Click Manager App Scroll Down and find "WAR file to deploy" Chose file and click deploy

Done

Go to Webapp folder of you Apache tomcat you will see a folder name matching with your war file name.

Type link in your url address bar:: localhost:8080/HelloWorld/HelloWorld.html and press enter

Done

• copy the .war file in the webapps folder
• upload the file using the manager application - http://host:port/manager. You will have to setup some users beforehand.
• (not recommended, but working) - manually extract the .war file as a .zip archive and place the extracted files in webapps/webappname

Sometimes administrators configure tomcat so that war files are deployed outside the tomcat folder. Even in that case:

After you have it deployed (check the /logs dir for any problems), it should be accessible via: http://host:port/yourwebappname/. So in your case, one of those:

http://bilgin.ath.cx/TestWebApp/
http://bilgin.ath.cx:8080/TestWebApp/

If you don't manage by doing the above and googling - turn to your support. There might be an alternative port, or there might be something wrong with the application (and therefore in the logs)