Jenkins deploy war file to Tomcat 8

Question

I\'m running Jenkins 1.6 (and also tried with Jenkins 2.0) on the same server where I have Tomcat 8. I need to deploy Maven multimodule application to Tomcat webapp. It has

Answer 1

Answer to your question

1. Tomcat 7 deploy plugin can be used for Tomcat 8 and 9 deployment also, It will work 100%.
2. Have to set authentication parameters with roles assigned should be set in tomcat-users.xml file (%TOMCAT8_PATH%/conf/tomcat-users.xml)

3. Below sample code can be used for setting role based authentication in tomcat8 container.
   

4. For Maven Authentication in this path %MAVEN_PATH%/conf/settings.xml
   

      
               
                   
   
                       
                           TomcatServer
                           admin
                           password
                       
   
                   
               
   

5. Using Tomcat 7 Maven Plugin (Can be used for Tomcat 8 Deployments also)
   

               
                       org.apache.tomcat.maven
                       tomcat7-maven-plugin
                       2.2
                       
                           http://localhost:8080/manager/text
                           TomcatServer
                           /yourappcontextpath
                       
                   
   

6. Deploy to tomcat can be performed any of these goals on need basis.
   mvn tomcat7:deploy
   mvn tomcat7:undeploy
   mvn tomcat7:redeploy
   

7. Also, for more detailed logging you can enable java.util.logging.ConsoleHandler in logging.properties file %Tomcat_path%/conf/logging.properties.

                           org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[Catalina].[localhost].level = INFO
                           org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[Catalina].[localhost].handlers = java.util.logging.ConsoleHandler
   
                           org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[Catalina].[localhost].[/manager].level = INFO
                           org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[Catalina].[localhost].[/manager].handlers = java.util.logging.ConsoleHandler
   
                           org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[Catalina].[localhost].[/host-manager].level = INFO
                           org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[Catalina].[localhost].[/host-manager].handlers = java.util.logging.ConsoleHandler