Tomcat manager remote deploy script

Providing an update to this question.

Tomcat 7 has changed it’s manager API.

Please refer to:
Manager commands

Following new URL pattern :

http://{host}:{port}/manager/text/{command}?{parameters}

Example

curl -T "myapp.war" "http://manager:manager@localhost:8080/manager/text/deploy?path=/myapp&update=true"

Security

Keep in mind the server must be able to accept your remote IP. This is a sample configuration:

<Context privileged="true" antiResourceLocking="false"
         docBase="${catalina.home}/webapps/manager">
  <Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.RemoteAddrValve"
         allow="127\.0\.0\.1" />
</Context>

This is an optional setting and isn’t required but having Cross domain role and proper manager credentials is a must.

Tomcat 8 – the same rules apply as Tomcat 7. Same commands.

Here is a full documentation:

http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-8.0-doc/manager-howto.html

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