Remote tomcat deployment

Question

I could set up the environment in my local host, But I have no choice like deploying my war file as its shared server, my admin ask me to extract the war file and upload through FTP. Now the problem is I am new to remote server. Please guide me with the remote environment file system and complete directory structure in remote tomcat. And how to use FTP for deployment ?

Answer 1

Please guide me with the remote environment file system and complete directory structure in remote tomcat

The remote directory structure of a Tomcat install is the same as a local one so you'll very likely have to upload your exploded webapp into $TOMCAT_HOME/webapps on the remote machine.

And how to use FTP for deployment?

Just use any FTP client (no offense but this is more a question for http://superuser.com).

Actually, why don't you ask your admin?

Answer 2

Just as an alternative, would it be possible to just upload via the tomcat manager application? There are ant tasks and maven plugins you can use to push your war file to the tomcat instance.