Using Ant to deploy folder with Tomcat Manager

Question

I've been trying to copy over a folder from my local machine to a network machine using the the Manager Commands with Ant build for deployment. I've created a shared folder to allow full access on the network. However, when executing the command, its deploying the application as a .war file and error return java.io.IOException: insufficient data written.

I'm using the tutorial Executing Manager Commands with Ant from here

Specfying the path to deploy and then ant deploy doesn't seem to work with directories, only war files.

Answer 1

Try to copy the folder an the networkmaschine, as for example with the ant copy task. Then create a file on tomcat-install\\conf\\Catalina\\localhost with the name mywebapppath.xml and the following content

<Context docBase="path-to-the-app" debug="0" crossContext="true" >

</Context>

path-to-the-app folder ist the folder containing the WEB-INF - folder

Tomcat load the content of the folder as webapp with the contextname mywebapppath.