How to deploy a Java Web Application (.war) on tomcat?

Question

I have a .war file of a Java Web Application. Now I want to upload it to my ftp server so that I can execute it.

What steps I should perform to run it?<

Answer 1

Note that you can deploy remotely using HTTP.

http://localhost:8080/manager/deploy

Upload the web application archive (WAR) file that is specified as the request data in this HTTP PUT request, install it into the appBase directory of our corresponding virtual host, and start it using the war file name without the .war extension as the path. The application can later be undeployed (and the corresponding application directory removed) by use of the /undeploy. To deploy the ROOT web application (the application with a context path of "/"), name the war ROOT.war.

and if you're using Ant you can do this using Tomcat Ant tasks (perhaps following a successful build).

To determine which path you then hit on your browser, you need to know the port Tomcat is running on, the context and your servlet path. See here for more details.