Common issues in deployment, configuration, and their troubleshooting

There are multiple issues which may arise after the deployment and configuration on Tomcat. Let's discuss the different issues:

Scenario 1:

Issue: Users complain that after the deployment, they can still view the old code.

Troubleshooting steps:

• Check if the latest file is present on the doc base.

• Check the catalina.out in the logs directory of Tomcat 7 and whether the WAR filename is deployed or not.

• If both are checked and the issue still persists, then stop the Tomcat service and clear the content of the temp directory under the work/Catalina/localhost using the following command:

cd /opt/apache-tomcat-7.0.12/temp/ rm -rf ../temp/*
cd /opt/apache-tomcat-7.0.12/work/Catalina/localhost/ rm -rf ../localhost/*

• Restart the Tomcat service and ask the user to test the application.

Scenario 2:

Issue: Users complaining that they can view the current deployed code on one node and the other node still displays the previous version...