Cannot figure out why I cannot deploy GWT applicat

Question

First, I tried to follow the tutorial to deploy my application. After some fiddling and failures, I thought I should run the GWT sample Contacts project and see if that will work on my tomcat with RPC calls. Again, no luck. What I did was create a sample application (when using Eclipse Wizard) compile, run it once on the development server, and see that it works.

Then I take the contents of the war folder, zip it, rename it to SampleApp.war, deploy it on the Apache, it unzips. I have a folder called SampleApp. In it is the .html, .css, WEB-INF. I attempt to do localhost:8080/SampleApp/SampleApp.html but it doesnt work.

type Status report

message /SampleApp/SampleApp.html

description The requested resource (/SampleApp/SampleApp.html) is not available.

I have no idea what to do. I tried to do the simple example possible and get it to work but I cannot. Help!

UPDATED: Cannot deploy servlet sample GWT app to Apache Tomcat 7

Answer 1

To Deploy a gwt app on tomcat you have to create war file using ANT.

Follow this link to create the war file and then put that war file in webapps folder of tomcat it will surely work.

http://blog.elitecoderz.net/gwt-and-tomcat-create-war-using-eclipse-to-deploy-war-on-tomcat/2009/12/