Daniel,

Tomcat will unjar (unwar?) the archived file by default. The <Context> entry
should be in $CATALINA_HOME/lib/server.xml

Garrett


--- Daniel Kehoe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Using TC4.1.9beta, I've got a myapp.war file (and matching myapp.xml
> configuration file) I install successfully using the Tomcat Web
> Application Manager. When I put the myapp.war and myapp.xml files in
> <tomcat>/webapps and restart Tomcat (for permanent deployment) I get
> the message:
> 
> Error initializing resources: Document base
> C:\java\tomcat4\webapps\myapp does not exist or is not a readable
> directory
> 
> The myapp.xml file contains:
> <Context path="/myapp" docBase="myapp" 
> debug="5" reloadable="true" crossContext="true">
> (plus it specifies a dataSource as a resource)
> 
> I know the docbase doesn't yet exist when Tomcat starts because the war
> file hasn't been unarchived. How is this supposed to work? Is there an
> alternative to specifying the docbase? Do I have to manually unarchive
> the war file? It was easy with other apps in TC3.2, I just dropped war
> files into webapps and they deployed without any complaints. Maybe I've
> overlooked a configuration parameter?
> -- 
>   Daniel
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