Deploying an application with the Tomcat Manager

The Tomcat Manager application allows dynamic deployment, undeployment and stop/start of web applications.

Deploying a new application

• Go to the Tomcat Manager for your site, for example:

http://yoursite/manager/html

http://127.0.0.1:8080/manager/html

• In the Deploy section, there is a field called Context Path (optional):
• Enter the relative URL path to your application here. For example, if your application is installed in <webapps>/myNewApp, enter /myNewApp. If you have created a new ROOT Application, the path is simply a forward-slash /. Do not enter a filesystem path.
• Click Deploy
• A message should appear in the message section, saying:

OK - Deployed application at context path /myNewApp

• The application should now be listed in the Applications list, and the running column should say "true".
• If you get errors instead, see Troubleshooting application deployment on Tomcat

More Information

• How do I deploy my application on Tomcat?
• How do I deploy my WAR file on Tomcat?
• Troubleshooting application deployment on Tomcat
• Debug your app - solutions for exceptions that occur when Tomcat deployment fails
• web.xml reference guide