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MakePeaceGreatAgain
MakePeaceGreatAgain

Reputation: 37115

Deployed Web-App but no folder within webapps

I have a WAR that I wish to deploay on a Tomcat. As this file is quite big (some 150MB) I simply dropped it into /usr/share/Tomcat7/webapps to autodeploy it when server is restarted. After re-starting tomcat the app was deployed correctly, I may access the app using http://myhost:8080/myApp. However there is no such folder under webapps/myApp containing the files building up the app, the archieve-file is still there.

So I wonder how I change any file within that webapp (e.g. the config file under webapps/myApp/WEB-INF) if the appropriate folder doesn´t even exist. Or is the webapp unpacked in any other folder which I´m not aware of?

This is my server.xml-file:

<Server port="8005" 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.GlobalResourcesLifecycleListener"/>
    <Listener className="org.apache.catalina.core.ThreadLocalLeakPreventionListener"/>

    <GlobalNamingResources>
        <Resource name="UserDatabase" auth="Container" type="org.apache.catalina.UserDatabase"
            description="User database that can be updated and saved"
            factory="org.apache.catalina.users.MemoryUserDatabaseFactory"
            pathname="conf/tomcat-users.xml"/>
    </GlobalNamingResources>
    <Service name="Catalina">


    <Executor name="tomcatThreadPool" namePrefix="catalina-exec-" maxThreads="1024"
            minSpareThreads="4"/>

    <Connector executor="tomcatThreadPool" port="80" connectionTimeout="20000"
            redirectPort="443" protocol="org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11NioProtocol"/>

    <Connector port="443" protocol="HTTP/1.1" SSLEnabled="true" maxThreads="150" scheme="https"
            secure="true" clientAuth="false" sslProtocol="TLS" keystoreFile="conf/certificate.jks"
            keystoreType="JKS" keystorePass="ciardi25" keyPass="ciardi25"/>

    <Engine name="Catalina" defaultHost="localhost">    
        <Realm className="org.apache.catalina.realm.LockOutRealm">
            <Realm className="org.apache.catalina.realm.UserDatabaseRealm"
                    resourceName="UserDatabase"/>
            </Realm>

            <Host name="localhost" appBase="webapps" unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true"
                startStopThreads="0">

                <Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve" directory="logs"
                    prefix="localhost_access_log." suffix=".txt"
                    pattern="%h %l %u %t &quot;%r&quot; %s %b"/>

            </Host>
        </Engine>
    </Service>
</Server>

EDIT: catalina.out also states, that the app has successfully been deployed as there are many comments within the file that have been written by my app.

EDIT: OS is Amazon Linux AMI

Upvotes: 0

Views: 4674

Answers (1)

f_puras
f_puras

Reputation: 2504

If Tomcat has been installed via some package manager, its files are usually spread across serveral dirs, like /usr/share/tomcatX/, /var/lib/tomcatX/, and /etc/tomcatX.

If your packages have been deployed with apt, you might try dpkg-query -L tomcat7 to see all paths belonging to the installation. With rpm, it's rpm -ql tomcat7. From the output, you can determine which dir is actually part of the installation, and which is not.

There is a Debian installation here, which has its webapps folder in /var/lib/tomcat7/webapps. Maybe you should check if this directory contains your webapp as well. Why Tomcat appears to nupack the WARs to a different folder yet remains mysterious. Are you using some /etc/init.d/tomcat7 for starting/stopping it? If so, you might want to take a look at that script and what it does on startup.

Upvotes: 2

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