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Remote deployments in Tomcat

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I was just wondering, if we do have a method to perform remote deployment.

I did take a look at the code for the Tomcat deployer and as per my understanding, it performs a HTTP PUT request, with the deployment file, to the Manager application to further perform the deployment.

If for some reason, the Manager application is / can not be deployed, is there still a way to achieve remote deployment on to Tomcat? Or is it a must, that we must be having Manager application deployed to deploy applications remotely?

posted Aug 6, 2013 by Sumit Pokharna

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Other than using HTTP(S) protocol to deploy your webapp using manager application, you may copy webapp / WAR file directly to your server (e.g. using scp).

answer Aug 6, 2013 by anonymous
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