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How to separately configure application server and web server using tomcat?

I want my application to run on server configured on a different machine how can I do it please help??
my application connects with the database so for security reasons I want to separate both application and server machine
I am using tomcat for server
and I have built a maven java project
right now y projects run on tomcat installed in the same machine but I want to separate my app and server

How to debug web services deployed on tomcat on different machine?

I have a machine say 'M1' on which I have tomcat server instance created. I have deployed a war file on this server. This war contains all web services and other stuff. So from web side whenever I work in debug mode, I can't debug web services on browser debugger.
In my local machine I have eclipse installed which contain all codes. Using this I have created war file which is deployed on tomcat server on machine M1.
Is there any way by which I can debug web service calls from browser? Or is there any different way to debug web services which are deployed on remote machine?

The short answer is to add the following options when the JVM is started:
-Xdebug -Xrunjdwp:transport=dt_socket,address=8000,server=y,suspend=n
This way you can debug the Tomcat server remotely.
For more info, see: https://wiki.apache.org/tomcat/FAQ/Developing#Q1

Deploy finished jsf application on glassfish server

I have built a JSF application and used a local glassfish server on my computer and I have developed in NetBeans.
Now I feel finished and want to try to install the JSF applicationen on a non local glassfish server.
I have set up a glassfish server on a Winows 2008 machine and everything seems to work as it should.
But I have no idea how I will deploy my JSF code on the server, do I need to package it in some way?
Have tried googling but have not found a good answer so if someone could guide me I would be grateful.
I use:
glassfish 3.1.2
Windows 2008
JSF 2.1
NetBeans

Start your glassfish server using the command
asadmin start-domain yourdomain
Then go to the administration GUI:
http://localhost:4848
Under the point Applications you can deploy and activate your web projects.
To deploy your jsf-application you have to export it as a war-file.

But I have no idea how I will deploy my JSF code on the server => you can't deploy a code o web server directly
You need to make war file of you web app (jsf is a web app) and after than upload in glassfish via web admin consoleYou can see a detailed blog with pictures here as how can you deploy war

How can i change deployed application to webserver from application server?

I am having a web application which is deployed in oracle weblogic application server. After getting analysed, i found that there is no need for application server(atleast for this application), i am in need to deploy this application into the oracle weblogic web server.
can anyone help on this, how can i change deployed application to webserver from application server ?
Or in a different words, i can say how can i migrate my application deployment from oracle weblogic application server to oracle weblogic web server ?
I am using weblogic 10. and Maven to build the application
About the application, it is using Apache axis, webservices, jsf, and few java classes.
Thanks in advance!

I've recently migrated one application from WAS to tomcat
The approach i followd is.
Identify and remove all the WL specific dependencies / jars (that you may not need of)
Change the build script to generate .war instead of .ear
deploy the generated .war to any servlet container/ webserver
with your specs (axis,ws,jsf) you dont need a .ear but .war will do.
if you are using ant modify your build script, i'd suggest go for maven for better dependency management

building of top of the answer by #TechExchange
even for Jboss, you still need to analyze the application to remove all WL specifics.
Ex: Descriptors for EJB's MDB's and so on.
with JBOSS you can still use the ear format.
A quesiton, you had mentioned that because you found that the application doesn't need a app server you decided to migrate it to web server, now with JMS in the picture do you still need to move?

Deploying to a Tomcat server which is already running outside of IntelliJ IDEA

I have installed Tomcat server on my PC and I have added it as a service in Windows. So now it starts each time I boot my computer. Now, in IntelliJ I have configured an application server, and that is my Tomcat server, however when trying to "run" the application it says that the port is already in use....and it is ofcourse since Tomcat is started on boot. Is it possible that IntelliJ deploys to the already running Tomcat server instead of trying to start again?

If you want to deploy to Tomcat started outside of IDEA, use the Tomcat Remote Run/Debug configuration type.
The difference of the Remote configuration is that it doesn't start the server, ensure you create Remote configuration, not Local:
It's possible to update application without restarting the server, refer to the Updating Applications on Application Servers help section.

You can use Jrebel plugin. It will be helpful to update your application without restarting your server.