title: How to purge tomcat's cache when deploying a new .war file? Is there a config setting?
body: <p>I have a simple hello, world servlet application that I am just playing around with, and pushing it out to my tomcat server on a VPS.</p>
  
  <p>When I make a change to my code, and deploy it, tomcat doesn't serve the newly published code (even after starting the service again).</p>
  
  <p>I stop the service, then push the new war file to /webapps/, and I make sure to delete the old exploded folder also.</p>
  
  <p>When I re-start the server, it still serves the older codebase.</p>
  
  <p>Is there a setting in the config to stop this behaviour?</p>
  
  <p>Also, what folders would I have to delete?  Please be specific (folders and paths) as I have tried deleting some and havent' gotten anywhere.  </p>