Prevent tomcat from starting application on deploy

Is there an开发者_开发技巧y way to tell Tomcat not to automatically start application which I want to deploy? I'd like to this manually.

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In CATALINA_HOME/conf/server.xml:

<Host appBase="webapps" autoDeploy="false" name="localhost" unpackWARs="true" 
    xmlNamespaceAware="false" xmlValidation="false">

Note the autoDeploy="false"

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I understand your question as not deploying your app on starting Tomcat - if so,

At the <Host> in server.xml, deployOnStartup attribute set to false should do it.

But that will affect all webapps on that server. The default is true

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For future reference, since at least Tomcat 7.0 every container has an undocumented property startChildren (cf. source code), which decides whether children should be automatically started.

Setting:

<Host startChildren="false" />

will prevent auto-deployed applications to start automatically.

Remark: this only applies to auto-deployed applications (i.e. those added to the StandardHost after it already started). The applications configured in server.xml will start automatically, when the StandardHost starts.