Tomcat manager remote deploy script

Question

I\'m writing a shell script to auto deploy/undeploy using the tomcat manager.

Following the instructions on http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/manager-howto.htm

Answer 1

This way is working for me on Tomcat 6 (See jevelopers answer for tomcat 7):

curl --upload-file  "http://:@:/manager/deploy?path=/&update=true"

Example:

curl --upload-file target\debug.war "http://tomcat:tomcat@localhost:8088/manager/deploy?path=/debug&update=true"

Very easy peasy. Output is like this:

OK - Undeployed application at context path /debug
OK - Deployed application at context path /debug