Hi Martin, if the axis2 directory does not exist in the webapps folder, this means that the deployment did not work for some reason.
Note that the automatic deployment only works if "autoDeploy is set to "true", see section "Deploying on a running server" here: http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/deployer-howto.html#Deployment_on_Tomcat_startup I suppose that you already tried restarting tomcat. Also consider that if both"autoDeploy and "deployOnStartup" are set to "false" the deployment would not happen. You can also try to deploy the web application using the tomcat manager, did you try that? If you tried all this and the deployment does still not work, then you have to look at the log files. What does logs/catalina.out say? You should find a section similar to this: INFO: Deploying web application archive axis2.war [INFO] Clustering has been disabled [INFO] Deploying module: mtompolicy-1.5.1 - file:/usr/local/java/apache-tomcat-6.0.26/webapps/axis2/WEB-INF/modules/mtompolicy-1.5.1.mar [INFO] Deploying module: metadataExchange-1.5.1 - file:/usr/local/java/apache-tomcat-6.0.26/webapps/axis2/WEB-INF/modules/mex-1.5.1.mar [INFO] Deploying module: ping-1.5.1 - file:/usr/local/java/apache-tomcat-6.0.26/webapps/axis2/WEB-INF/modules/ping-1.5.1.mar [INFO] Deploying module: script-1.5.1 - file:/usr/local/java/apache-tomcat-6.0.26/webapps/axis2/WEB-INF/modules/axis2-scripting-1.5.1.mar [INFO] Deploying module: jaxws-1.5.1 - file:/usr/local/java/apache-tomcat-6.0.26/webapps/axis2/WEB-INF/modules/axis2-jaxws-mar-1.5.1.mar [INFO] Deploying module: soapmonitor-1.5.1 - file:/usr/local/java/apache-tomcat-6.0.26/webapps/axis2/WEB-INF/modules/soapmonitor-1.5.1.mar [INFO] Deploying module: addressing-1.5.1 - file:/usr/local/java/apache-tomcat-6.0.26/webapps/axis2/WEB-INF/modules/addressing-1.5.1.mar [INFO] Deploying module: metadataExchange-1.5.1-impl - file:/usr/local/java/apache-tomcat-6.0.26/webapps/axis2/WEB-INF/lib/mex-1.5.1-impl.jar Regards, Sven -----Original message----- To:java-user@axis.apache.org; From:MH <martinleeharri...@hotmail.co.uk> Sent:Tue 10-01-2012 10:06 Subject:Re: Axis 2 install Hi Sven The .war is deployed in the webapps folder. There are four other folders there including ROOT. An Axis-2 folder is not evident. Kind regards Martin From: Schlarb Sven Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2012 8:41 AM To: java-user@axis.apache.org Subject: RE: Axis 2 install Hi, did you check if the axis.war has been deployed in the webapps folder? The folder apache-tomcat-${version}/webapps/axis2/ should exist. Regards, Sven -----Original message----- To: java-user@axis.apache.org; From: MH <martinleeharri...@hotmail.co.uk> Sent: Mon 09-01-2012 20:01 Subject: Axis 2 install Hi I am a new user. I have installed apache Tomcat as a servlet container for Axis 2. My install of Axis 2 is, however, not responding I have downloaded a standard binary distribution with the .war file. I have also set up the environment variable AXIS2_HOME. When I start Tomcat and invoke the http://<host :port>/axis2 I see 404 error with message informing me that apache axis is not available. The war file is in the Tomcat folder. However I checked to see if I should build a new .war file using ant create.war in the ..\module\webapp\scripts folder where the build.xml file is located. The build failed. As a new axis implementer I would like to know if anyone has an idea what may be wrong here at this stage? Kind regards Martin Harrison
