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Marc Palmer » Blog Archive » Deploying Grails applications on Tomcat

I just saw this blog entry about deploying Grails apps on Tomcat.

I’m confused as to why there is a need to "grails run-app" on the server.

I have deployed Grails applications many times now on Tomcat 5.5 on remote servers that don’t even have Grails installed. All that is required is dumping the .war into the webapps directory. To avoid problems I shut down tomcat first, copy the .war over, and then start tomcat again. It works without fail.