tomcat 7, grails app, finding the running webapp? -

i installed tomcat 7 on centos 6 , running good, running service, can start , stop it, log file looks fine.

but, doesn't respond webapp address, i've got wrong ...

i'm able access tomcat externally on: www.my-domain.us:8080 (standard welcome apache tomcat 7 page), when try access under application called cpn, cannot. trying:

www.my-domain.us:8080/cpn www.my-domain.us/cpn www.my-domain.us:8080/cpn/cpn 

the cpn.war file exploded tomcat in webapps, i.e. have a

 .../webapps/cpn/* directory 

in application.properties app.name=cpn.

also, in config.groovy have:

 grails.serverurl = "http://www.my-domain.us" 

what doing wrong?

if it's not responding @ didn't start successfully, check log files "startup failed due previous errors". common problem can if grails trying create default stacktrace.log log file "current directory" whatever is not writable uid of tomcat process. can eliminate possibility adding

'null' name:'stacktrace' 

to appenders block in log4j closure in config.groovy turn off stacktrace.log altogether.

also if tomcat visible @ www.my-domain.us:8080 grails.serverurl should http://www.my-domain.us:8080/cpn, i.e. should include webapp context path host name , port number , should not end slash.

if want app deployed @ root context (http://www.my-domain.us:8080/) should name root.war instead of cpn.war , set grails.serverurl="http://www.my-domain.us:8080"