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
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> Subject: Re: unpacking of WAR
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> On Fri, 9 Aug 2002, Paul Phillips wrote:
> 
> > Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2002 22:49:00 -0500
> > From: Paul Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> > Subject: unpacking of WAR
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> > 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
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