Hi, Don't rely on a default value for unpackWARs: put it in your instructions that it must be true, because that's a place where your webapp deviates from the Servlet Specification (which only requires containers to support packed WARs).
Yoav Shapira Millennium Research Informatics >-----Original Message----- >From: Simon Brooke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Friday, May 28, 2004 6:28 AM >To: 'Tomcat Users List' >Subject: Tomcat 5: default unpackWARs bahaviour? > >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > >I'm busy writing installation instructions for a webapp, and I've just had >my >first draft sent back to me as 'much too technical and complex'. > >For the webapp to work, I need 'unpackWARs' to be true in the server.xml >file. >A lot of Tomcat 4 distributions I've seen (including the Debian one, which >I >mostly use) come with 'unpackWARs' false. > >In the 5.0.24 binary tarball I've downloaded from jakarta.apache.org >unpackWARs is true. Is this policy? Can I rely on unpackWARs being true in >Tomcat 5 distributions downloaded from jakarta.apache.org? If so it makes >my >installation instructions much simpler. > >Cheers > >Simon > >- -- >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Simon Brooke) http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/ > > Tony Blair's epitaph, #1: Here lies Tony Blair. > Tony Blair's epitaph, #2: Trust me. > >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >Version: 2.6.3ia >Charset: noconv > >iQCVAwUBQLcUO3r1UrYJMbiJAQFugQQAkgVMzf5onkPS/CUThcCXqEQnj3HdXVBZ >QSq6gD0DUt8/wwWkVCbcFEU6nCE7884KzTXc3JDLd58G1qcP7lPwfnTon5eR8Zzr >TF0vBzuPto2bJDCXGrBttOWFuNco1YFfMTu3wJYRSAJkyYBfmoX0LHEWR5s9fNfC >tyhtCVnH2a8= >=LGgP >-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This e-mail, including any attachments, is a confidential business communication, and may contain information that is confidential, proprietary and/or privileged. This e-mail is intended only for the individual(s) to whom it is addressed, and may not be saved, copied, printed, disclosed or used by anyone else. If you are not the(an) intended recipient, please immediately delete this e-mail from your computer system and notify the sender. Thank you. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
