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Kevin Meredith
Kevin Meredith

Reputation: 41939

Where to Find Tomcat-Hosted WAR on Web

Given a complete TOMCAT directory, how can I determine where my WAR will be hosted?

My WAR's been exploded, but I'm not sure what to type in the browser to access it.

Note that I'm ssh'd onto another machine, so I assume that forwarding's been enabled.

Here's some of my $TOMCAT_HOME/conf/server.xml:

<Server port="20310" shutdown="SHUTDOWN">
  <Listener className="org.apache.catalina.core.AprLifecycleListener" SSLEngine="on" />
  <Listener className="org.apache.catalina.core.JasperListener" />
  <Listener className="org.apache.catalina.core.JreMemoryLeakPreventionListener" />
  <Listener className="org.apache.catalina.mbeans.ServerLifecycleListener" />
  <Listener className="org.apache.catalina.mbeans.GlobalResourcesLifecycleListener" />
  <Service name="Catalina">
    <Connector port="60310" protocol="AJP/1.3" redirectPort="8443" packetSize="65536"/>
    <Engine name="Catalina" defaultHost="localhost">
      <Host name="localhost"  unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true" appBase="webapps"/>
    </Engine>
  </Service>

  <Service name="App">
    <Connector port="45310" protocol="AJP/1.3" packetSize="65536"/>
    <Engine name="App" defaultHost="localhost">
      <Host name="localhost"  unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true" appBase="app"/>
    </Engine>
  </Service>
</Server>

Thanks.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 78

Answers (2)

Pidster
Pidster

Reputation: 618

Tomcat hosts web applications and does not have a single DocumentRoot in the same way that Apache HTTPD does. Given the following location:

/path/to/tomcat/webapps

and a standard server.xml containing:

<Engine name="Catalina" defaultHost="localhost">
  <Host name="localhost" unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true" appBase="webapps"/>
</Engine>

then the default application (which uses the special name 'ROOT'), will be here:

/path/to/tomcat/webapps/ROOT

and will publish itself on:

http://<ip-address>:<connector-port>/

When there's another named application deployed:

/path/to/tomcat/webapps/myapp

it will be published here:

http://<ip-address>:<connector-port>/myapp

In your case you have configured two services, two connectors and two hosts, so you have two appBase locations, in turn you have two default applications:

/path/to/tomcat/webapps/ROOT
/path/to/tomcat/app/ROOT

and they are available on the AJP ports 60310 and 45310.

That's where we stop, because you haven't told us anything about the Apache HTTPD config and whether you've configured a reverse proxy to send traffic to Tomcat.

Why are you using Apache HTTPD?

Upvotes: 1

Abubakkar
Abubakkar

Reputation: 15664

I think you should find it under $TOMCAT_HOME/webapps/, because this is where I put my webapp for running on Tomcat Server 6.0

Upvotes: 1

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