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cybertextron
cybertextron

Reputation: 10961

deploying a grails war file to a Tomcat server

I wrote a Grails application, everything works fine, then I generated the myapp.war file to be deployed in a Tomcat 6.0 server running in a VM. I generated the .war file with

grails war

Then I moved the file to the /tomcat/webapp location on my server, and it was expended into the directory myapp. However, when I try to access the application, I get:

Message:    
FAIL - Application at context path /myapp could not be started

I'm new at deploying .war files into Tomcat servers. I was testing my application within my SpringSource IDE, as localhost:8080/myapp and everything is working fine, however, when I try to deploy that to <my-server>:8080/myapp I'm getting that error message. Any is that happening? Could someone please help me with that error?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3724

Answers (2)

angryip
angryip

Reputation: 2290

Just for reference, the log files that are being referenced are located under %TOMCAT_HOME%/logs.

Another alternative is to use the Tomcat Manager. Here is a good link on how to get started. https://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/manager-howto.html

Either way, when you click on the deploy button (Image attached), it will give you an error if something critical has occurred with the deployment of your war. It is certainly not as detaled as the catalina logs, or the stdio logs, but it might be easier to troubleshoot, let alone, you do not have to manually keep transferring the file.

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Upvotes: 0

Henrik
Henrik

Reputation: 3777

Check the log files in Tomcat. Carefully examine every row to check for fatal errors. It could be a single row in the log file that makes Tomcat refuse to start the application.

I have had several cases where a small "innocent" row in the log file was the root cause.

Upvotes: 3

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