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?

Answer 1

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