Deploying Web Apps
If you want any web app put in the webapps directory of a running Tomcat server to be automatically deployed, add the parameter autoDeploy="true" to the Host entry in your server.xml file. Reloading Web Apps
To reload a web app after a change, you can use the manager web app that's enabled by default on Tomcat (should probably be disabled in production!).
For example, to reload our logging webapp (if you're reading along with the logging example), you can browse to: