Question

I am trying to reload a Tomcat6 web application (for example the Tomcat Documentation) via Curl.

I have tried it with:

curl.exe --user username:password http://myserver:8080/manager/list/stop?path=/docs

This doesn’t work (Error 404).

I recorded the request with live HTTP headers. If I use the replay functionality it does work.

Any hints?

Answer 1

It’s just a typo. Change manager/list/stop to manager/stop in the url.

curl.exe --user user:pass http://myserver:8080/manager/text/stop?path=/docs

It stops the application. If you want to restart you need the reload parameter:

curl.exe --user user:pass http://myserver:8080/manager/reload?path=/docs

Note: Tomcat 7 uses different management urls.

References:

• Manager App HOW-TO, Tomcat 6.x
• Manager App HOW-TO, Tomcat 7.x