How to deploy war files to tomcat manually?

Question

I have a war at location \"C:\\Documents and Settings\\myProj.war\".

The web project is also available at \"C:\\Documents and Settings\\myProj\".<

Answer 1

These are the steps I follow when I have to manually deploy a war in Tomcat on localhost:

1. If Tomcat is running, stop/kill it.

2. Go to the tomcat installation folder (this must be C:\Documents and Settings\tomcat6x for you), let's call it .

3. In , delete the temp and work folders. They only contain temporary files.

4. If it's a jar file maybe is for configuration, so drop it in /lib folder. If it's a war file, drop it in /deploy or in /webapps folder.

5. Start your tomcat.