that's just behavior you will have to live with if you insist on using an
ancient (by today's standards) version of Tomcat.  Upgrade to the latest Tomcat5
release and do docBase="myapp.war" and the WAR file *will* be unpacked.

Jake

Quoting Woodchuck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> i'm using tomcat 4.1.24
> 
> i have both unpackWARs and autoDeploy set to true.
> 
> i have a context for myapp defined:
> <Context path="/myapp" docBase="myapp" debug="0"
>                  reloadable="true">
> 
> tomcat is not expanding my myapp.war file.  why is this?  so after
> reading archives people suggested setting docbase="myapp.war" so i did
> that, but my application is not working correctly, there are run-time
> nullpointer exceptions.
> 
> however, if i manually unpack my war, my app works fine, no errors.
> 
> why is tomcat not unpacking?  (or why does setting docBase="myapp.war"
> not work 100%?)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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