How to redeploy a war on remote Tomcat 7 using maven-tomcat-plugin

maven, maven-tomcat-plugin, tomcat7

Solution

I also had this problem. For me it worked putting in the update-tag in the tomcat-plugin

        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.apache.tomcat.maven</groupId>
            <artifactId>tomcat7-maven-plugin</artifactId>     
            ... 
            <update>true</update>

            ...

and using the tomcat7:deploy command (and not 'redeploy') again.

(just noticed the answer still was there..., sorry for duplicating)

Problem

I am trying to redeploy a war from my local machine to a remote Tomcat 7 using command prompt in Windows. I am able to upload the war with the tomcat-maven-plugin for the first time but subsequent uploads gives me a message something like this. pom.xml ``` <!-- Deploy to Remote Tomcat --> <plugin> <groupId>org.apache.tomcat.maven</groupId> <artifactId>tomcat7-maven-plugin</artifactId> <version>2.2</version> <configuration> <url>${unix.tomcat.url}</url> <server>sandbox-tomcat</server> <path>/${project.artifactId}</path> </configuration> </plugin> ``` Maven Command: ``` mvn tomcat7:redeploy ``` Maven Log: ``` [INFO] Deploying war to http://secdevapp11.gspt.net:8080/istore-tax-service Uploading: http://secdevapp11.gspt.net:8080/manager/text/deploy?path=%2Fistore-tax-service&update=true Uploaded: http://secdevapp11.gspt.net:8080/manager/text/deploy?path=%2Fistore-tax-service&update=true (1334 KB at 512.7 KB/sec) [INFO] tomcatManager status code:200, ReasonPhrase:OK [INFO] FAIL - Unable to delete [/nfs/home_04/chandeln/installations/apache-tomcat-7.0.52/webapps/istore-tax-service]. The continued presence of this file may cause problems. [INFO] FAIL - Application already exists at path /istore-tax-service [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] BUILD SUCCESS [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Total time: 4.704s [INFO] Finished at: Wed Mar 26 15:34:55 EDT 2014 [INFO] Final Memory: 21M/224M [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ```

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