Oh as far as .war are concerned, tomcat will automatically unpack them. If you want to keep your app in a packed format it has to be in .jar format (which you put normally under webapps/yourapp/WEB-INF/lib)
Dom -----Original Message----- From: Liam Holohan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 05 February 2002 16:48 To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: deploying WARs in different locations..(web.xml error) Cressatti, Dominique wrote: > What does your context for your app look > like? > > -----Original Message----- > From: Liam Holohan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 05 February 2002 16:30 > To: Tomcat Users List > Subject: deploying WARs in different locations..(web.xml error) > > > Hi all .. > I'm having difficulity in getting my wars to unpack into "non standard > locations" > > > I have tomcat4.0 + apache 1.3.22 running on Red hat Linux 7.2 > Using mod_webapp and seems to be working fine > > Did a search on google and mailing lists but to no avail. > At wits end :-( > > > Tomcat is installed into /home/wasp/tomcat/4.0/ > Tomcat conf files are in /home/wasp/tomcat/4.0/conf/server.xml etc.. > Apache is in /home/wasp/apache/1.3.22/ etc.. > The document root of my virtual hosts are in > /home/wasp/vhosts/virtual_host_name > > I want to deploy a web app (war file "app-example.war", build with > jbuilder and examined with jar and looks ok) into a virtual host called > www.test.com > i.e /home/wasp/vhosts/www.test.com/htdocs/webapps > > > It seems to recognise the context "app-example" I want to set up but > does not read the WEB-INF/web.xml file inside the war ?? > > I keep getting an error "WEB-INF/web.xml" not found > i.e in my > /home/wasp/vhosts/www.test.com/logs/www.test.com-2002-02-05-app-example-context.log > (custom log for virtual host www.test.com set up in server.xml) > > StandardContext[/app-example]: Configuring default Manager > StandardContext[/app-example]: Processing standard container startup > WebappLoader[/app-example]: Deploying class repositories to work > directory /home/wasp/tomcat/4.0/work/www.test.com/app-example > WebappLoader[/app-example]: Reloading checks are enabled for this Context > StandardManager[/app-example]: Seeding random number generator class > java.security.SecureRandom > StandardManager[/app-example]: Seeding of random number generator has > been completed > ContextConfig[/app-example]: ContextConfig: Processing START > StandardContext[/app-example]: Setting deployment descriptor public ID > to '-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.3//EN' > ContextConfig[/app-example]: Missing application web.xml, using defaults > only......... > > StandardWrapper[/app-example:invoker]: Loading container servlet invoker > invoker: init > StandardWrapper[/app-example:jsp]: Using Jasper classloader for servlet jsp > jsp: init > Internal Error: File /WEB-INF/web.xml not found > > > > my config details are.... > > > in httpd.conf > <VirtualHost 10.20.32.13> > ServerAdmin [EMAIL PROTECTED] > DocumentRoot /home/wasp/vhosts/www.test.com/htdocs > ServerName www.test.com > TransferLog /home/wasp/vhosts/www.test.com/logs/www.test.com-xferlog > ErrorLog /home/wasp/vhosts/www.test.com/logs/www.test.com-errorlog > > WebAppConnection www.test.com.warpConnection-8008 warp 10.20.32.13:8008 > WebAppDeploy app-example www.test.com.warpConnection-8008 /app-example > </VirtualHost> > > > > in server/xml .. > > <!-- Define an Apache-Connector Service --> > <Service name="Tomcat-Apache Virtual Host Warp connector Service"> > <Connector > className="org.apache.catalina.connector.warp.WarpConnector" port="8008" > minProcessors="5" maxProcessors="75" enableLookups="false" > acceptCount="10" debug="0"/> > <Engine className="org.apache.catalina.connector.warp.WarpEngine" > name="www.test.com" debug="1" > appBase="/home/wasp/vhosts/www.test.com/htdocs/webapps"> > <Logger className="org.apache.catalina.logger.FileLogger" > prefix="www.test.com-" suffix="-engine.log" timestamp="false"/> > <Host name="www.test.com" debug="0" > appBase="/home/wasp/vhosts/www.test.com/htdocs/webapps" unpackWARs="true"> > <Logger className="org.apache.catalina.logger.FileLogger" > directory="/home/wasp/vhosts/www.test.com/logs" prefix="www.test.com-" > suffix="-tomcat.log" timestamp="false"/> > <Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve" > directory="/home/wasp/vhosts/www.test.com/logs" prefix="www.test.com-" > suffix="-tomcat-access.log" pattern="common"/> > <Context path="" > docBase="/home/wasp/vhosts/www.test.com/htdocs/webapps/" debug="0"/> > <Context path="/app-example" > docBase="/home/wasp/vhosts/www.test.com/htdocs/webapps/app-example.war" > debug="1" reloadable="true"> > <Logger className="org.apache.catalina.logger.FileLogger" > directory="/home/wasp/vhosts/www.test.com/logs" prefix="www.test.com-" > suffix="-app-example-context.log" timestamp="false"/> > </Context> > </Host> > <Realm className="org.apache.catalina.realm.MemoryRealm" /> > </Engine> > </Service> > > > > any help or pointers to sombody who has the same problem would be great !! > > Thx in advance > Liam > > > -- > To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Troubles with the list: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > -- > To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Troubles with the list: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > The context is set up within an host element of my server.xml file context name is "app-example" which corresponds to an app-example.war file in /home/wasp/vhosts/www.test.com/htdocs/webapps i.e .. <Host name="www.test.com" debug="0" appBase="/home/wasp/vhosts/www.test.com/htdocs/webapps" unpackWARs="true"> <Logger className="org.apache.catalina.logger.FileLogger" directory="/home/wasp/vhosts/www.test.com/logs" prefix="www.test.com-" suffix="-tomcat.log" timestamp="false"/> <Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve" directory="/home/wasp/vhosts/www.test.com/logs" prefix="www.test.com-" suffix="-tomcat-access.log" pattern="common"/> <Context path="" docBase="/home/wasp/vhosts/www.test.com/htdocs/webapps/" debug="0"/> <Context path="/app-example" docBase="/home/wasp/vhosts/www.test.com/htdocs/webapps/app-example.war" debug="1" reloadable="true"> <Logger className="org.apache.catalina.logger.FileLogger" directory="/home/wasp/vhosts/www.test.com/logs" prefix="www.test.com-" suffix="-app-example-context.log" timestamp="false"/> </Context> </Host> Do you know how to actually run the web application without unpacking the wars at all ? 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