I have an apparently simple situation: a running Tomcat 7.0.54 instance whose host is configured with autoDeploy=false and unpackWars=true and I want to deploy a new web application there without restarting the server.
From within the server machine I copied the webapp WAR file to the Tomcat appBase directory (webapps/), then from the HTML manager I can succesfully deploy it from the "Deploy directory or WAR file located on server" section by only filling the "Context path" form field and hitting "Deploy".
I'm now trying to do the same from the command line, and while commands such as:
curl -u admin:password1 http://localhost:8680/manager/text/list and:
curl -u admin:password1 http://localhost:8680/manager/text/stop?path=/webapp Both give OK - [...], I can't find any syntax for the /deploy command that would succeed, any attempt results in the following error:
FAIL - Invalid context path null was specified According to the manager docs, the following syntax should do it:
curl -u admin:password1 http://localhost:8680/manager/text/deploy?war=webapp.war But it doesn't, and even adding a &path=/webapp parameter doesn't yield a different result.
Permissions on the webapps/ folder are already right: as other webapps already deployed and running, everything belongs to root.
What am I missing?
