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.
   

                   <?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
                   <tomcat-users>
   
                       <role rolename="manager-gui"/>
                       <role rolename="manager-script"/>
                       <user username="admin" password="password" roles="manager-gui,manager-script" />
   
                   </tomcat-users>
   

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

      <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
               <settings ...>
                   <servers>
   
                       <server>
                           <id>TomcatServer</id>
                           <username>admin</username>
                           <password>password</password>
                       </server>
   
                   </servers>
               </settings>
   

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

               <plugin>
                       <groupId>org.apache.tomcat.maven</groupId>
                       <artifactId>tomcat7-maven-plugin</artifactId>
                       <version>2.2</version>
                       <configuration>
                           <url>http://localhost:8080/manager/text</url>
                           <server>TomcatServer</server>
                           <path>/yourappcontextpath</path>
                       </configuration>
                   </plugin>
   

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