Deploying just HTML, CSS webpage to Tomcat
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I am just getting started on developing a website. All I have at the moment is a HTML page supported by a couple of CSS stylesheets.
Can I create a WAR file from the HTML and CSS pages? How do I deploy them on to a Tomcat server?
Thanks.
Html Solutions
Solution 1 - Html
There is no real need to create a war to run it from Tomcat. You can follow these steps
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Create a folder in webapps folder e.g. MyApp
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Put your html and css in that folder and name the html file, which you want to be the starting page for your application, index.html
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Start tomcat and point your browser to url "http://localhost:8080/MyApp";. Your index.html page will pop up in the browser
Solution 2 - Html
Here's my setup: I am on Ubuntu 9.10.
Now, Here's what I did.
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Create a folder named "tomcat6-myapp" in /usr/share.
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Create a folder "myapp" under /usr/share/tomcat6-myapp.
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Copy the HTML file (that I need to deploy) to /usr/share/tomcat6-myapp/myapp. It must be named index.html.
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Go to /etc/tomcat6/Catalina/localhost.
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Create an xml file "myapp.xml" (i guess it must have the same name as the name of the folder in step 2) inside /etc/tomcat6/Catalina/localhost with the following contents.
< Context path="/myapp" docBase="/usr/share/tomcat6-myapp/myapp" /> -
This xml is called the 'Deployment Descriptor' which Tomcat reads and automatically deploys your app named "myapp".
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Now go to http://localhost:8080/myapp in your browser - the index.html gets picked up by tomcat and is shown.
I hope this helps!
Solution 3 - Html
Here's my step in Ubuntu 16.04 and Tomcat 8.
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Copy folder /var/lib/tomcat8/webapps/ROOT to your folder.
cp -r /var/lib/tomcat8/webapps/ROOT /var/lib/tomcat8/webapps/{yourfolder}
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Add your html, css, js, to your folder.
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Open "http://localhost:8080/{yourfolder}" in browser
Notes:
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If you using chrome web browser and did wrong folder before, then clean web browser's cache(or change another name) otherwise (sometimes) it always 404.
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The folder META-INF with context.xml is needed.
Solution 4 - Html
If you want to create a .war file you can deploy to a Tomcat instance using the Manager app, create a folder, put all your files in that folder (including an index.html file) move your terminal window into that folder, and execute the following command:
zip -r <AppName>.war *
I've tested it with Tomcat 8 on the Mac, but it should work anywhere
Solution 5 - Html
(Answers are pretty old, so here's what worked for me on Ubuntu 20.04 Tomcat9) As root
cd /var/lib/tomcat9/webapps
mkdir -p myapp
cd myapp
cat >>index.html
<html><body>MY SIMPLE PAGE </body></html>
control-D # Press CONTROL+D to exit 'cat', create the file 'index.html'
systemctl restart tomcat9
In browser, use URL: http://127.0.0.1/myapp
(Of course, you can make page fancier, add CSS, etc., etc.)
Solution 6 - Html
I struggled a bit with older version of Apache Tomcat (7.0.68) running on Windows Server 2012, but this worked for me after a little bit of experimenting:
- Create app folder with your static files (HTML, JS, CSS, assets, etc.).
- Inside the folder create
META-INFfolder and add emptyMANIFEST.MF. - Optionally zip the app folder and change the extension to
.war. - Upload your app to Tomcat's
webappsfolder, either as a.waror just folder with your files.
Turned out, that META-INF with empty MANIFEST.MF file is enough for Tomcat to serve the app. No need to add WEB-INF or anything else (at least for my version of Tomcat).
Folder structure:
MyApp (folder)
|--index.html
|--app.js
|--app.css
|--assets (folder)
|--logo.png
|--...
|--META-INF (folder)
|--MANIFEST.MF (empty file)