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I have Tomcat7 running on a Linux server. Tomcat is pointing to a symbolic link WAR for my application. The link is pointing to the actual WAR. I am looking to upgrade the app. What I have done is placed a new WAR file of the upgraded app and made a symbolic link pointing to the new WAR. I am planning on doing mv newsymlink oldsymlink to overwrite the keep the same name for the symbolic link but point to the new WAR. After I do this, will Tomcat pickup the change automatically and load the new WAR or do I have to restart Tomcat?

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You can just change the target of the existing symbolic link under /tomcat/webapps using the command:

ln -sf NEW_TARGET.war CURRENT.war
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