How do i run a sample hello world app in tomcat?

pangolinsos

Apache Tomcat documentation link for sample app: https://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/appdev/sample/

The instructions are already explained at the link above.

The sample.war file is a self contained app, that demonstrates JSP - Java Server Pages and Servlet functionality.

The sample.war file is moved to you /tomcat_install_dir/webapps and then got to the URL: https://<tomcat_server>:8443/sample

It should look like this:

jar is a command to view the contents of the sample.war

The sample app contains the following files:

$ jar tvf sample.war 
     0 Mon Jul 30 17:18:12 PDT 2007 META-INF/
   106 Mon Jul 30 17:18:10 PDT 2007 META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
     0 Mon Jul 30 16:26:28 PDT 2007 WEB-INF/
     0 Mon Jul 30 16:26:30 PDT 2007 WEB-INF/classes/
     0 Mon Jul 30 16:26:30 PDT 2007 WEB-INF/classes/mypackage/
     0 Mon Jul 30 16:26:28 PDT 2007 WEB-INF/lib/
     0 Mon Jul 30 16:26:28 PDT 2007 images/
  1480 Mon Jul 30 16:26:30 PDT 2007 WEB-INF/classes/mypackage/Hello.class
   813 Mon Jul 30 16:26:28 PDT 2007 WEB-INF/web.xml
   376 Mon Jul 30 16:26:28 PDT 2007 hello.jsp
  1441 Mon Jul 30 16:26:28 PDT 2007 images/tomcat.gif
   636 Mon Jul 30 16:26:28 PDT 2007 index.html