Composer with external Tomcat

Architect & Flows
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Hi guys
Wondering if any you have used Composer without the embedded Tomcat and used a new instance? This is because customer has banned embedded Tomcat due to security failures.
So I tried to use Composer with a clean Tomcat (Deployment) and doesn’t work…

Complains:

Failed to deploy the Composer Project Got unexpected response: FAIL - Failed to deploy application at context path /Pesquisa_DIGITAL . Please make sure the project name does not have the following invalid characters: % & , =

But if I use original Tomcat does work fine…any idea? Maybe some config needed at Tomcat side? Tomcat 8 being tested

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We don’t use embedded Tomcat as well. It takes a little bit more time to do deployments, but you will get used to it.
It’s just a matter op Generating the code. Export project to war file and then upload the war file manually to the Tomcat server anywhere in the network.

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Yes, that is what I am doing now, just got curious why can’t use another Tomcat…something must be missing…curiosity just triggered me to investigate it more

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Hi Cav,

Following changes are needed if you want to use standard Tomcat instance with Composer:

  • add roles admin,manager,manager-script
  • add user ‘admin’ with roles above
  • copy all files from ComposerBackend folder to Tomcat’s lib folder

Roles and users are configured in tomcat-users.xml file


  <role rolename="manager"/>
  <role rolename="admin"/>
  <role rolename="manager-script"/>
  <user username="admin" password="admin" roles="admin,manager,manager-script"/>

Once you done changes above and restarted Tomcat, you can configure connection to this new Tomcat in Composer configuration and it should work.

R.

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Hi Rene
Did as suggested but didn’t work.
Still getting that message about invalid characters…

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Well..now it works, why exactly no clue. What I did…delete all vxml files and regenerate them.
Now, no problems…weird.
Thanks Rene