Tomcat 7: Deploy a war file inside sub directory of webapp

Question

If we place a war file inside webapps folder of tomcat then it deploys it when we start the server, but it is not the case when we place the war file inside a sub folder of webapps. Is there any way by which we can achieve this deployment process within sub directory of webapps?

Answer 1

We can change the war deployment path(application base directory) in TOMCAT_HOME/conf/server.xml.

<Host name="localhost"  appBase="webapps\your_directory"
        unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true">