Deploying .war

[Sami Casab]

Hi:
I have a .war file with some servlets and jsp (i dont have ejb). I tested it on hp-as ands works fine but i need to deploy it in a pure tomcat server but i dont know how to deploy it.
so, where do i should put this file? and how i deploy it? ...
Thanks in advance.

[Jim Petersen]

Hi Sami
Here is one way to do it (as of TC version 3.2)
1. Stop Tomcat.
2. Delete an existing deployment (If you tried before and it went pear-shaped). If you previously deployed "foo.war" in TOMCAT_HOME/webapps, then it has been unpacked into webapps/foo/... You must delete this directory and all its contents.
On Unix, this can be done with
rm -r $TOMCAT_HOME/webapps/foo or
del %TOMCAT_HOME%/webapps/foo on Win
3. Copy WAR file to TOMCAT_HOME/webapps/.
Start Tomcat.
( A "deploy tool" apparently is on the Tomcat "to-do" list)
If you deploy a WAR file in this manner, you do not need to make any changes to server.xml -- its automatically recognized and activated. However, if you wish to specify non-default options for this webapp, you may do so by adding an element like
<Context docBase="webapps/foo" ...
to server.xml.

[Sami Casab]

Thanks for you help, my servlet is now working under http://www.smartware.com.mx:8080/sami/s3. Now i am trying to configure my apache web server because i dont want to use the 8080 port, could you give me a tip?
Thanks in advace.

[Andres Gonzalez]

Sami. this URL might help ya:
http://javaboutique.internet.com/tutorials/Tomcat/configure.html#Configure-Tomcat
it says how to change from port 8080 to 80
cheers