Deploy to Tomcat

Question

How can I deploy a war file to Tomcat in exactly the same way Eclipse deploys to Tomcat, if I configured Tomcat in Eclipse?

Reason for asking is that when I deploy with Eclipse everything works fine (databse connection, log4j ect). But when I manually deploy the corresponding war file to the same Tomcat installation, none of my external resources like database connection, logging to files work!

Several question may arise. 1) Did you restart your tomcat after deploying? 2) Did you deploy your war file in same machine? 3) Is there any path set to your program that was static? 4) After updating in your code, did you press "Clean and Build button"? — Ataur Rahman Munna, Jun 29 '16 at 08:10
it's difficult to give an answers without error messages... does your war file contain the libraries needed for logging, database connction and so on? — JimHawkins, Jun 29 '16 at 08:11
You can look here how to setup Tomcat: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14579661/how-to-set-catalina-home-variable-in-windows-7 — Pritam Banerjee, Jun 29 '16 at 08:12
Yes, restarted, same machine. Not sure about 3. Tried with ant build as well, nothing works — user2908112, Jun 29 '16 at 08:15
Please put your exception too. What exception thrown by your tomcat ? P.S: see it in tomcat console. — Ataur Rahman Munna, Jun 29 '16 at 08:44
I started a thread about this problem before this. There are all outputs: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/38069832/tomcat-deployment-failing — user2908112, Jun 29 '16 at 08:52

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited Jun 29 '16 at 08:29

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You can add the external jars to $CATALINA_BASE/lib Read here

Common — This class loader contains additional classes that are made visible to both Tomcat internal classes and to all web applications

edited Jun 29 '16 at 08:29

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I will try it, but isnt it enough to have them in WEB-INF/lib? – user2908112 Jun 29 '16 at 08:20
Sorry, but what is your mean? – ThiepLV Jun 29 '16 at 08:25
You tried to put the jar files /WEB-INF/lib/*.jar of your web application? – ThiepLV Jun 29 '16 at 08:35
Yes and restarted tomcat – user2908112 Jun 29 '16 at 08:47
What is your log of server? – ThiepLV Jun 29 '16 at 09:08
Log say that everything working, no warnings or errors. – user2908112 Jun 29 '16 at 09:14
So why do you know DB connecting that is not working? – ThiepLV Jun 29 '16 at 09:24
Because items are not showing up on my page. See here, I started this thread before this one: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/38069832/tomcat-deployment-failing – user2908112 Jun 29 '16 at 09:27

Deploy to Tomcat

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