tomcat restart webapp from command line

Question

I have a PCI DSS compliant environment which runs several apps and I want to restart only one app without restarting the server. I don\'t have the manager because apparently

Answer 1

Here's how I do it:

1. Ensure that you have user with "manager-script" role in your tomcat user database. That usually means that you have line like this in your ${TOMCAT}/conf/tomcat-users.xml :

Otherwise, you will get a 403 error because of cross-site request forgery (CSRF) protection.

2. Use curl or whatever command line tool you like to fetch the URl /manager/text/reload?path=/:

   curl --user user:secret http://localhost:8080/manager/text/reload?path=/mypath