Editing Folder content in tomcat manually?

Question

I have a WAR file called ROOT.war where I uploaded into Tomcat few days back. There I have few "public" HTML pages like index.html, about.html etc. These pages has no connection with the programatic part of the application, instead containing a link for login.jsp .

Now, I need to change the content of the index.html and about.html . What I was used to do is rebuild the entire WAR file and re-uplaod it, but now can't do it for small and iterative changes like this because the application is in use.

So, can I simply access the webapps -> ROOT folder in Tomcat and replace the index.html? Will it affect the process of the application?

Answer 1

It works but avoid such practices which lead to discrepancies.

Follow standard deployment process - rebuild the entire WAR file and re-upload it during deployment window.

Answer 2

You can, and It will work. You can even change the JSP code. The only issue you may have is that when you redeploy a new version of the war, changes made in the server will ve overriden by the new version, so you better change it in the original tool also.