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

i tried this it works quite well

curl --request PUT --upload-file webapp.war --basic --user user:password \
  http://hostname:port/manager/text/deploy?path=/web_path\&update=true

it is based on the published tomcat manager API: https://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-9.0-doc/manager-howto.html#Deploy_A_New_Application_Archive_(WAR)_Remotely

Answer 2

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.