Running war (jar) - a project without an IDE?

Question

Java

Hello Toaster.
There is a maven project. Tomcat application server.
I run through the IntelLij IDEA IDE, everything starts up normally and works without interruption.
Question : I bought a VDS for a month for testing.
Installed Tomcat, Java, MySQL
But there are problems with starting the project without the iDEA IDE. How to specify the desired war - nickname or jar - nickname in tomcat?
I run catalina run in the console, I see that she does not know what to cling to.
How to be?
Of course, you can install idea and run through it, but this is not practical and wrong.

Answer 1

So tomcat just takes applications from webapps and starts them. And access to server_url/appname
And in the list of applications in the web face, it should be