Kam, The existence of a context in the server.xml will not prevent Tomcat from unpacking a war. I have a development box that has the context defined and the manager can undeploy and deploy the war just fine. Also restart is not required.
What Tomcat will not do is unpack any war for which a matching directory already exist under webapps. Part of the undeploy action of the manager is to delete the directory. Doug ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kam Lung Leung" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, April 09, 2004 5:44 PM Subject: RE: Can someone help me to fix the soft link problem in Tomcat 4.1.27 > Thank Subir, > > The link does help me to fix the problem. After creating a context for my web > component DistributedInputOutput in the server.xml file. Tomcat is no longer > unpack my web componemt DistributeInputOutput.war at startup. Tomcat complains > the directory is not accessible. In fact Tomcat will not unpack any web > components said myWebComp.war when there is a Context defined in the server.xml. > However, Tomcat does unpack other web components when the server.xml does not > contains a Context defined for this web component. I come to a conclusion is > that the Context is used for web component that need not to be unpacked when > Tomcat startup. Another the way to say this is that if I need the web component > to be unpack when Tomcat startup, then I should not defined a Context for that > web component in the server.xml. Please let me know if this is not the case. > > Thank, > Kam > > > On Thu, 8 Apr 2004 16:12:50 -0700, "Subir Sengupta" wrote: > > > > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=tomcat-user&m=105159411609623&w=2 > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Kam Lung Leung [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2004 2:54 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Can someone help me to fix the soft link problem in Tomcat > > 4.1.27 > > > > > > Hi, > > > > I installed Tomcat 4.1.27 on our server and drop a myApp.war into the > > webapps directory. We restart Tomcat and wait for it to finish to unpack > > all web components, then we stop Tomcat. We create a soft link within > > our web component to point to directory outside the root context of our > > web component. But Tomcat says the requested resource is not available > > when we try to access the soft linked directory from the browser. In > > fact a "null" shows up in the last modified column. Can someone please > > tell me what to do to fix this problem. > > Your help is greatly appreciated. > > > > Kam > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Kam Lung Leung > Vice President of Engineering > Wireless Web Access Inc. > (303) 627-9684 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
