Start a Web application (enable)

Purpose

Start a web application that is deployed but not running.

To use this action, the Tomcat manager (manager.war ) must be deployed on the instance and the instance must be running. You can deploy manager.war from $CATALINA_HOME/extras.

Syntax

tcman.sh enable [general_options] -u user_id:password app_name

Parameters

general_options

Specify one or more of the options that can be used with any TCMAN action. Run tcman.sh help start to see which general options are appropriate.

-u user_id:password

Specify a valid user name and password for HTTP Basic access authentication. (The default is -u tomcat:tomcat.)

app_name

Specify the name of the web application to start.

Note: To start the ROOT web application, you can specify / or ROOT.

Example

Start the oeabl application deployed on the acme1 instance:

tcman.sh enable -u tomcat:tomcat oeabl
OK - Started application at context path /oeabl