Deploying a war file(project) in Tomcat web server in Windows

Steps for Deploying a project in Tomcat web server in Windows

1.Open the NetBeans IDE
2.Open the project
3.Right click on the project in projects tab
4.Click on the 'clean and build' option
5.Click on 'Deploy' option
6.Now go to folder where your project is reside in your system
say D:\projects\nameoftheproject\dist folder
7.You can find the nameoftheproject.war file in dist folder
8.Open the tomcat foder in your system say c:\program files\ApacheSoftwareFoundation\Tomcat6.0
9.Open the logs folder
10.Delete all the log files which are present upto now
11.Open the work folder--->catalina--->localhost
12.Delete all the folders(all these folders are temporary folders created by the tomcat)
13.Open the webapps folder
14.Delete the war file and project folder(if it is already present, before this you need to stop the tomcat server)
15.Copy the war file and paste in the c:\program files\ApacheSoftwareFoundation\Tomcat6.0\webapps folder
16.Run the project in the firefox with appropriate url say:http://localhost:8080/nameoftheproject

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