Hi, I don't know if it was just a typo in your post, but "AutoDeploy" should be "|autoDeploy".
-- Edgar Alves | Paul Warner wrote: >Hello, > >I have read the documentation and searched the archives, and whatever I have >found, I have tried, but still my .war files will not unpack and auto deploy. >I >have been running a tomcat server for several months in which the .war files >unpacked and auto-deployed perfectly. But with this new installation, the >"Redhat" way, with files all over the place, I have not been able to make it >work. > >I am using Tomcat 5.0.28 via an rpm on Redhat EL 3. I am accessing the tomcat >server via apache and the jk2 connector. I have the server.xml file configured >with: > ><Host name="localhost" debug="0" appBase="webApps" > unpackWARs=true AutoDeploy="true" > xmlValidation="false" xmlNamespaceAware="false"> > >My application has its context.xml file in the META-INF directory correctly >pointing to the appname, /copse. I have an xml file in >/etc/tomcat5/Catalina/localhost/copse.xml which has in it: > ><Context docBase="${catalina.home}/build/copse.war" > privileged="true" antiResourceLocking="false" >antiJARLocking="false"></Context> > >The /webapps directory and its contents are owned by tomcat, the tomcat process >owner. root has CATALINA_HOME in its environment, set to "/usr/share/tomcat5". >I have a link in /usr/share/tomcat5 to /var/lib/tomcat5/build, which contains >the copse.war file. tomcat has read and write privs for this build/ directory >and all its files. > >The differences between my working installation and the 'broken' one seem to >be: >1. root owned the instance of tomcat in the working version, tomcat owns the >instance of tomcat in the broken one >2. file permissions were not all tomcat rw in the broken one, but this I have >fixed now - as far as I know all relevant files are owned by tomcat >3. CATALINA_HOME wasn't set properly for root at first in the 'broken' install >- >but this also has been fixed (I believe). It points to the directory that >holds >all the softlinks to the other directories, such as conf, webapps, build, and >so >on. > >I have resorted to unpacking the war file myself, and the application works. >But unpacking by hand is cumbersome and time-consuming. Does anyone have the >(I >presume simple) key to unlock this problem? > >Thanks, >Paul > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]