This section describes how to use the FEWS Web Services if it has been installed as a Windows service and using the tomcat manager application to deploy the webservice. For the latest information on installations instructions for a specific Tomcat version, please refer to the Tomcat documentation itself and see Delft-FEWS Installation - Install Apache Tomcat on how to install tomcat for production.
Using the manager application is not recommended for production and should only be used for local testing.
To use the tomcat manager application, create a user and pass in "${catalina.home}/conf/tomcat-users.xml" for the role manager-gui, for example:
<role rolename="manager-gui"/> <user username="dummy_username" password="dummy_password" roles="manager-gui"/>
Please note that storing plain text passwords is not advised. Use password hashes to avoid this using the Tomcat digest capabilities. As an example take a look at the FEWS Web Services Tomcat Security page for more information.
Start the webservice on Windows via Windows Task Manager > Services > Apache tomcat >(right click)> Start.
Navigate in a web browser to http://localhost:8080, select the Manager App and log in with user you created during the Tomcat installation (see above).
Within the listed Applications, you'll find /FewsWebServices, which should already be running. The manager application can be used to stop the FewsWebServices, undeploy it, or deploy a new version.
