Craig, I was under the impression that the WAR would only be expanded if there was no existing Context of that name. Is this correct?
- Andrew > -----Original Message----- > From: Craig R. McClanahan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2002 1:01 AM > To: Tomcat Users List > Subject: Re: unpacking of WAR > > > > > On Fri, 9 Aug 2002, Paul Phillips wrote: > > > Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2002 22:49:00 -0500 > > From: Paul Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Reply-To: Tomcat Users List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: Tomcat Users List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: unpacking of WAR > > > > I worked on deploying my first webapp to another server today. I > > packaged it up as a war, transferred it to the other tomcat server, > > added the one line context element in the server.xml, and > restarted. > > Nothing - the logs said that the webapp that was referenced by the > > context statement was not available or in a readable > format. In fact, > > the war did not expand into the file system. > > > > So, I removed the context element, and restarted. With the context > > gone, the WAR expanded properly. Then I added the context back in, > > and it worked fine. > > > > Is this normal? > > > > Depends on what you specified for the docBase parameter in > the Context element. This needs to be the absolute or relative (to > $CATALINA_HOME/webapps) name of the WAR file. > > Craig > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:tomcat-user-> [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For > additional commands, > e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
