I want to use ant install to deploy (and re-deploy and re-deploy) my webapp on a local virtualhost.
It works fine with the default host, but the virtual host does not have the manager webapp. I would like to use similar setup in the live enviromnet (no manager on the given host).
I found a promisiong property:
webapp.virtual.host=...
in some example build.properties, but it does not seem to get the job done. Is it even possible, and how?
In my answer to one SO post, Christian Semrau commented:
In standard configuration, Tomcat monitors its webapps folder and deploys any webapp for which you copy a .war file into the webapps folder, and undeploys it if you remove the .war file, and re-deploys it when you change the .war file. But when doing that, you don't get automatic feedback about the success of a deployment, which you do get from the Tomcat Manager.
That said, your task becomes as easy as copying or removing the file on the remote server.
Yet, I still don't understand why having manager app is a problem. You could, for example, only deploy it on different host/port:
<Connector port="8080" address="main.ip.add.ress">
...
<Context path="/your_main_context">
...
</Context>
</Connector>
<Connector port="18080" address="another.ip.add.ress">
...
<Context path="/manager">
...
</Context>
</Connector>
and put relevant firewall restrictions. Or, alternatively, you could place
<Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.RemoteHostValve"
allow=".*\.mycompany\.com|www\.yourcompany\.com"/>
inside Context and achieve similar results.