Why does my work file work locally, but not on my webhosting server?

Question

I developed a website and got a Tomcat account on Dailyrazor. My website runs fine when I start Tomcat from the command line and stick my war file in Apache's webapps folder. I access it by http://localhost:8080/dkashtanartportfolio/.

Now should it be as easy as dropping the war in my webapps folder on my DailyRazor Tomcat server? I expect to be able to access my website via http://www.<domain-name>.com/<war-file-name>/, which should look like http://www.dkartportfolio.com/dkashtanartportfolio/

I get a 404 error and I do not know why? Can anybody help?

Answer 1

Some of the DailyRazor accounts don't allow automatic deploy. So after uploading war you need to restart Tomcat. I use shell to execute tomcat_manage stop, followed by tomcat_manage start. You may also be able to request restart by opening a help ticket.

For some reason, my accounts expect war's to be in public_html and not webapps. I have an old account so they may have changed the way new accounts work.