How to deploy war file to tomcat using command prompt?

Question

I have created a war file and put into tomcat/webapps. How to deploy a war file to tomcat using command prompt?

Answer 1

To do this, we need to place the WAR file inside the Tomcat CATALINA_HOME/WEBAPPS/ directory. Later, Tomcat will automatically deploy and explode this WAR file.

• Change active directory of command prompt to your WAR file location
• Set CATALINA_HOME variable to the path of the Tomcat directory
• Copy the WAR files

Syntax to copy the WAR file from the current directory in the command line:

copy  %CATALINA_HOME%\

Example:

cd C:\MY_WAR_FILE_LOCATION
set CATALINA_HOME="C:\Program Files\Apache\apache-tomcat-7.0.42"
copy MYWARFILE.WAR %CATALINA_HOME%\webapps

Note: If a WAR file is copied into the webapps directory while Tomcat is running, it will not be recognized. Simply restart Tomcat to begin using the web application.