Glassfish not running web application independently of Netbeans

Question

Please see the steps I have followed below:

1) Start the Glassfish server in Netbeans:

2) Run the Netbeans project, which successfully browses to: http://localhost:8080/CRUDWebAppSQL/StudentServlet I am able to use the application. 3) Close Netbeans, which stops Glassfish (in preparation for the next step)

Then I try this:

1) Run the following DOS commands:

cd C:\Program Files\glassfish-4.0\bin
sadmin start-domain domain1

2) Message received saying server has started. Browse to: http://localhost:4848/ and login. Make sure that CRUDWebAppSQL is listed as an app. 3) Browse to: http://localhost:8080/CRUDWebAppSQL/StudentServlet which display a Glassfish 404 error

Why does step three produce a Glassfish 404 error? Does it have something to do with this: Where does glassfish save your class/project after deployment on Windows?

Look at the logs and if you see deployment or server configuration problems you can fix them using GlassFish admin console that you are already using on port 4848 — perissf
Possible duplicate of Launch Glassfish application in web browser — Mike

simdevmon simdevmon · Accepted Answer · 2016-10-05T19:46:08

NetBeans is using a different mechanism to deploy your application to support hot deployment in comparison to a manual deployment.

To run the application without NetBeans first build the web application with e.g. with Maven mvn clean install to get the *.war file.

Start the Glassfish application server and either deploy the war file through the web interface or with command line asadmin deploy war-name

By the way I would suggest to update NetBeans to the current 8.2 release and have a look at Payara, which is a patched drop-in replacement for Glassfish: http://www.payara.fish/downloads

Glassfish not running web application independently of Netbeans

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