Hi

I am coming for Visual Studio, trying to get a handle on deploying a spring boot project war file to a Tomcat located on a 2nd desktop on same intranet.  I typically have no issue deploying web app using VS IDE as it is all pretty much automated

I installed Tomcat 8 and validated that if I got to http://IP Address:8088/ I see the Tomcat page.   I validated I can use the manager consile just fine.

The problem is that when I use Intellij IDE to generate a war file, I copy and past on the 2nd machine Desktop, and I then use Tomcat to deploy, I get 404 resource not found error.

I am obvious doing something wrong on the IntelliJ side ... my guesstimate is when I am adding project libraries.  The steps I used are:

-Went to Project Structure

-Selected Artifacts

-clicked the + sign and named the project to diexample (same name as the java IDE)

- the type is [Web Application Archive]

-

-I selected to put 'diexample' compile output into /WEB-INF/classes

-I selected to put all the remaining Maven items into /WEB-INF/lib

-Apply

-OK

-Rebuild project ... nothing happens ... I don't see an out folder under my diexample folder

-I moved the war file to the desktop of the machine where I have tomcat 8 installed.

-Wen to the Tomcate application manager

-Selected WAR file to deploy and pointed to the WAR file on the machine desktop

-deploy

-I validated the the newly installed file is on the Tomcat Applications List Grid

- I get

HTTP Status 404 - /diexample/

I am puzzeled.  I even get this with a simple Helloworld.

Any idea what I could be doing wrong?

Thanks