Tomcat6 not deploying my webapp

Question

I have access to a Tomcat server that is currently deploy two webapps. When I put my own webapp in the apache-tomcat-6.xxx/webapps directory, it doesn't deploy it. I tried downloading the Tomcat sample webapp, and deployed it in the webapps directory, and it still doesn't deploy.

Is there anything I have to do beyond putting the webapps in the apache*/webapps directory to get them to deploy? I have tried starting/restarting Tomcat ad nauseam.

Thanks,
ktm

Solution 1

Did you try stopping and starting tomcat?

Solution 2

When you say you put your own webapp, I assume you are putting your webapp.war file? Make sure you delete the existing webapp directory first before you place webapp.war. Tomcat will automatically inflate the war file to create that webapp directory.

Comments

[ktm5124]

Okay, I deleted the webapp directory and tried it with just webapp.war. Tomcat did indeed inflate my war file, but it still is not deploying it. When I go to my.url.com/[mywebapp], I get a 404 Not Found error. But when I go to my.url.com/[otherwebapp], the other web app runs fine.

[limc]

It seems like your autoDeploy must be false: tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/… . Turn that on, and it should work.

[ktm5124]

No, autoDeploy is true. It has always been that way.

[limc]

Try reloading the application by typing this in the web browser: localhost:8080/manager/reload?path=/webapp

[ktm5124]

I tried that. I got a 403 Forbidden: "You don't have permission to access /manager/reload on this server." (I don't have physical access to the server, I am accessing it through SSH.)

[ktm5124]

How do I know if the security manager is running? But I checked catalina.policy, and I didn't see any of the working webapps being granted permissions.

[Woot4Moo]

in the startup scripts it will have the -security flag