War deployment on Tomcat takes ages

Question

I have a Grails application, built to a war file (~30mb). When I attempt to deploy the war file on Tomcat 6 via the application manager, it takes upwards of 10 minutes to deploy

Answer 1

It's not always that you have sufficient access rights to manually put files in the webapps folder -- you are supposed to use the Tomcat Application Manager for .war file deployment, and need to make it work.

For me, it has been common that the process of uploading of a .war file to the server cannot complete; it gets stuck somewhere in the middle and the file is only partially uploaded to the server, no matter how many times I retry. In such situations, I have found it worthwhile to try another browser. For instance, I've found myself stuck using Google Chrome but once I switched to a freshly started Firefox browser, things worked out.