The Mifos WAR file is basically a collection of pages and files that comprise the MIfos web application (you can view Wikipedia's definition of a WAR file to learn more).  The Mifos WAR is located in the download package you saved to Mifos Install.

• Navigate back to the Mifos Install directory.  Click into the mifos_v1.5.0.1 directory.  You will now copy and paste the mifos.war file into the CATALINA_HOME/webapps directory.

• Locate your CATALINA_HOME directory (it's where you install Apache Tomcat to).  Navigate into the webapps folder and check to see if any of the following temporary directories exist, if so - delete them:
  • CATALINA_HOME/webapps/mifos
  • CATALINA_HOME/work/Catalina/<hostname>/mifos
    • (where <hostname> is the namer of your server)

(in my example - I had no temporary directories to delete)

• Now let's copy and paste mifos.war into CATALINA_HOME/webapps

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