How to deploy war file to tomcat using command prompt?

Question

I have created a war file and put into tomcat/webapps. How to deploy a war file to tomcat using command prompt?

Solution 1

The earlier answers on this page are correct that you can copy/move the WAR file into place and restart tomcat, but they omit to mention something: you must remove the previously exploded assets (from the previously deployed WAR file) if any are present.

# My tomcat webapps are found at /var/lib/tomcat6/webapps
# The application I wish to deploy is the main (ROOT) application
webapps_dir=/var/lib/tomcat6/webapps
# Remove existing assets (if any)
rm -rf $webapps_dir/ROOT
# Copy WAR file into place
cp example_dir/ROOT.war $webapps_dir
# Restart tomcat
service tomcat6 restart

Modify the following for your own system:

• Path of your compiled WAR file (to be deployed)
• Path of your tomcat webapps files
• How to restart tomcat (i.e. if not installed as a service)

Solution 2

First add a user role in tomcat-users.xml for role manager-script.

Then to undeploy current app you can use

wget http://username:password@localhost:portnumber/manager/text/undeploy?path=/appname -O - -q

To deploy

wget http://username:password@localhost:portnumber/manager/text/deploy?path=/appname&war=file:/warpath -O - -q

Solution 3

You could use wget or curl to deploy an app from command line.

With wget:

wget --http-user=tomcat --http-password=tomcat "http://localhost:8080/manager/text/deploy?war=file:/some/path/SomeWar.war&path=/SomeWar" -O -

But in my case with wget I received this error: "Failed to deploy application at context path ..."

So I solved using curl:

curl -v -u user:password -T app.war 'http://tomcathost/manager/text/deploy?path=/my-app-path&update=true'

Solution 4

To do this, we need to place the WAR file inside the Tomcat CATALINA_HOME/WEBAPPS/ directory. Later, Tomcat will automatically deploy and explode this WAR file.

• Change active directory of command prompt to your WAR file location
• Set CATALINA_HOME variable to the path of the Tomcat directory
• Copy the WAR files

Syntax to copy the WAR file from the current directory in the command line:

copy <your-war-file-name> %CATALINA_HOME%\<your-appBase-name>

Example:

cd C:\MY_WAR_FILE_LOCATION
set CATALINA_HOME="C:\Program Files\Apache\apache-tomcat-7.0.42"
copy MYWARFILE.WAR %CATALINA_HOME%\webapps

Note: If a WAR file is copied into the webapps directory while Tomcat is running, it will not be recognized. Simply restart Tomcat to begin using the web application.

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Comments

[Quaternion]

I kept getting "-O: command not found" but if I wrapped the url part with "" then I had no issues, so for others I recommend doing that.

[Kingsley]

Does this un-deploy any existing version?

[Andrew T Finnell]

I needed to specify PUT specifically with -X PUT. Other than that it works perfectly.