Can't deploy Grails War file in tomcat - results in 404

Question

I have a GrailsApplication.war file with me, and i added that into the webapps folder (tomcat 7). When i tried to access the url ( <ipaddress>:8080/GrailsApplication ) it gives me a 404 error. What have i done wrong deploying the grails war file ?

Grails version : 2.2.4

Tomcat : 7

Server : Ubuntu

Answer 1

In Grails 2 apps, there should be a config setting present in Config.groovy as below, verify if that is present:

environments {
    production {
        grails.serverURL = "http://<youripaddress>:8080/${appName}"
    }
}

Answer 2

I believe that the grails.serverURL is used by grails to produce urls but not as a configuration to tell tomcat what application will resolve to a specific url. That's handled by the config in tomcat itself.

Try this:

http://yourdomain:port/GrailsApplication_1.0

And see if your application shows up