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Tomcat manager will not upload my war file.

• I'm using the Tomcat manager to deploy my project's war file from my workstation but upload fails with the following error:

  HTTP Status 500 - 
  
  --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  
  type Exception report
  
  message 
  
  description The server encountered an internal error () that prevented it from fulfilling this request.
  
  exception 
  
  java.lang.IllegalStateException: org.apache.tomcat.util.http.fileupload.FileUploadBase$SizeLimitExceededException: the request was rejected because its size (63475228) exceeds the configured maximum (52428800)
  	org.apache.catalina.connector.Request.parseParts(Request.java:2780)
  	org.apache.catalina.connector.Request.parseParameters(Request.java:3024)
  	org.apache.catalina.connector.Request.getParameter(Request.java:1139)
  	org.apache.catalina.connector.RequestFacade.getParameter(RequestFacade.java:382)
  	org.apache.catalina.filters.CsrfPreventionFilter.doFilter(CsrfPreventionFilter.java:163)
  	org.apache.catalina.filters.SetCharacterEncodingFilter.doFilter(SetCharacterEncodingFilter.java:108)
  
  
  root cause 
  
  org.apache.tomcat.util.http.fileupload.FileUploadBase$SizeLimitExceededException: the request was rejected because its size (63475228) exceeds the configured maximum (52428800)
  	org.apache.tomcat.util.http.fileupload.FileUploadBase$FileItemIteratorImpl.<init>(FileUploadBase.java:804)
  	org.apache.tomcat.util.http.fileupload.FileUploadBase.getItemIterator(FileUploadBase.java:284)
  	org.apache.tomcat.util.http.fileupload.FileUploadBase.parseRequest(FileUploadBase.java:304)
  	org.apache.tomcat.util.http.fileupload.servlet.ServletFileUpload.parseRequest(ServletFileUpload.java:129)
  	org.apache.catalina.connector.Request.parseParts(Request.java:2718)
  	org.apache.catalina.connector.Request.parseParameters(Request.java:3024)
  	org.apache.catalina.connector.Request.getParameter(Request.java:1139)
  	org.apache.catalina.connector.RequestFacade.getParameter(RequestFacade.java:382)
  	org.apache.catalina.filters.CsrfPreventionFilter.doFilter(CsrfPreventionFilter.java:163)
  	org.apache.catalina.filters.SetCharacterEncodingFilter.doFilter(SetCharacterEncodingFilter.java:108)
  
  
  note The full stack trace of the root cause is available in the Apache Tomcat/7.0.25 logs.
  

  what am I doing wrong?

ANSWER:

• The session factory's mappingLocations element is used to configure the hibernate mappings.  Configuration instuctions can be found at: How to configure your application to use Hibernate Mappings .