How to deploy .war files in Plesk Onyx 17.8 despite no longer supported TomCat?

Question

Up to and including version 17.5 Plesk Onyx came with a Tomcat installation, which is no longer supported from version 17.8. Thus no .war files can be deployed and executed anym

Answer 1

The downside of using Plesk's "Docker proxy rules" is multiple domains can't share one docker.

In Plesk 17.8 here's what worked best for me...

Using ssh, install Tomcat on port 8080.

Delete all demo apps from Tomcat webapp folder

Copy my app war files to Tomcat webapp folder

Log in to Plesk

For each domain with a Tomcat webapp, click "Apache & nginx Settings" for that domain, scroll down, under "Additional nginx directives" Add

location /app1 {
    proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8080;
}

Every webapp name has be unique. Works with Let's Encrypt so

• https://example1.com/app1 shows http://127.0.0.1:8080/app1

• https://example2.com/app2 shows http://127.0.0.1:8080/app2