Script to Reload specific Web App

Question

Hello internet,

I have been looking for the past two hours for a script to reload my web app.

• I'm using Tomcat on a windows server 2003.
• I know that there is a link to reload your web app, but i'm wondering if i can automate the process to reload my web app once every 8 hours.

I would really appreciate if you could give me hint or two :)

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Thank you in advance

Answer 1

You should be able to use something like a scheduled task in Windows Task Scheduler to do this. See this tutorial here: http://www.iopus.com/guides/winscheduler.htm

It looks like tomcat is installed as windows service so you can create a batch (.bat) file to stop and start the service. It should look something like this:

net stop tomcat
net start tomcat

Just setup the scheduled task to run this batch file every 8 hours.

Answer 2

there are two original batch to start tomcat, i just plan them to execute every 8 hours. As easy as that.