How To Deploy Under Ubuntu 7.10 – Method 2: Tomcat Manager

Posted by Bill on February 24th, 2008

In a previous post, we looked at how to deploy under Ubuntu 7.10 by downloading, decompressing, and then moving the "bugs" directory to the Tomcat webapps directory. In this post, we will look at deploying with the Tomcat Manager.

Prerequisites

All steps to download, decompress, and configure the Bugs Dashboard are the same as those found in the above post. Follow that until you have successfully configured your copy of the Bugs Dashboard.

You must have at least one user configured in Tomcat with the manager role. It is assumed you can login to the Tomcat Manager.

Process

When you are ready to deploy the Bugs Dashboard, you are not going to move it to the webapps directory as you was detailed in the first method of deploying under Ubuntu. In this scenario, you are going to use the Tomcat Manager to deploy it from the directory in which you configured it.

Open a browser and navigate to the Tomcat Manager page (in our case this was http://localhost:8080/manager/html).
Scroll down to the "Deploy" section of the Tomcat Manager page. You are going to provide two of the three requested pieces of information for the deployment; the context path (/bugs) and the directory URL (the full path to the directory being deployed).
You should receive back a message at the top of the refreshed page stating that the deployment was "ok".
Open a browser window and navigate to the portal page (e.g. /bugs/portal). If your configuration was successful, you should see the first portal. If there are any issues, refer to the troubleshooting steps in the README or the Quick Start. You may also contact us at support@bugsdashboard.com.