Is a new .war file uploaded to the webapps directory supposed to force tomcat restart?

Question

I am putting together a new build environment and when I upload a new .war file, Tomcat does not seem to be unwrapping it into a directory structure, or restarting.

Does there have to be some setting that needs to be set for this? I am using ubuntu.

Thanks, Alex

Answer 1

Yes, on TOMCAT_HOME/conf , there's server.xml . Look for the following:

<Host name="localhost"  appBase="webapps"
            unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true">

• Setting unpackWARs to true allows Tomcat to unzip your WAR file to a directory structure.
• Setting autoDeploy to true allows Tomcat to auto deploy your web application if it detects a WAR file deployed in Tomcat.

Hope this helps!