When you copied the webapp to 'myapp.old' jetty will deploy that new
directory. So you would have had 2 identical webapps deployed.
The better way to do it would be to copy the new webapp into the existing
'myapp' directory and then touch myapp.xml to cause it to be redeployed.
I haven't seen
I just updated a webapp, and something peculiar happened, and I'm
wondering if it's normal behaviour. I'm using jetty-9.4.6.v20170531.
In my webapps directory, I have a directory "myapp" and a corresponding
"myapp.xml". Since this was a major update, I copied "myapp" to
"myapp.old" and then