title: Making Spring Tool Suite generated web app work on standalone Tomcat server
body: <p>From <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12444096/deploying-spring-web-apps-using-spring-tool-suite/12448586#12448586">Deploying spring web apps using Spring Tool Suite</a> question, I could build and deploy spring web application with Spring Tool Suite. I could access the app at <code>localhost:8080/manolitomvc</code>.</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/k4uFC.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
  
  <p>Shutting down the Spring Tool Suite Tomcat server, I relaunch Tomcat with <code>sudo startup.sh</code>, but I got this error message.</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/NmAkE.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
  
  <p>What's wrong? What server setup is necessary for making <code>manolitomvc</code>  app to work?</p>
  
  <h2>ADDED/SOLVED</h2>
  
  <p>Based on Ralph's answer, I could make it work. </p>
  
  <p>In STS workspace directory, I could generate the war file in Tomcat directory.</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/685ey.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
  
  <p>Copying the war file in the web apps make the deployment work. Interestingly, the <code>manolitomvc</code> directory is generated automatically with the action of copying. </p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/GyLAf.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
  
  <p>Or, you can just set the destination to the webapp directory.</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/ljPf8.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>