Prevent tomcat from starting application on deploy

Question

Is there any way to tell Tomcat not to automatically start application which I want to deploy? I'd like to this manually.

Answer 1

In CATALINA_HOME/conf/server.xml:

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

Note the autoDeploy="false"

Answer 2

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