You are confusing Tomcat. If you are going to dynamically deploy your webapp, don't have the .war file sitting in $TOMCAT_HOME/webapps. Have it somewhere else. Everything in $TOMCAT_HOME/webapps is automatically deployed and, yes, it is expanded if you *don't* have a Context entry defined for that webapp.
when you install like you are, there is already a webapp defined for the path you are specifying. Now you install another webapp under the same name. I don't know how Tomcat handles this situation, but it looks as if it hoses the webapp entry. Make sure to name your webapps uniquely and don't put any .war files or expanded directories that you plan on dynamically installing through the manager in Tomcat's default auto-deploy directory (webapps). Jake Quoting Dave Robbins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello All, > kindof a newbie here so be gentle > I wrote a little dummy app with Forte 4.0 that consists of a jsp page with > a link that calls a servlet which does a database lookup and spews out some > > data. It works fine with the built in copy of Tomcat that comes with Forte. > I build a war file and try to deploy it on another machine with Tomcat > 4.0.4 on it. I put my file dummy.war in the $CATALINA_HOME/webapps/dummy > dir and use this command from a browser > > http://localhost:8080/manager/install? > path=/dummy&war=jar:file:$CATALINA_HOME/webapps/dummy/dummy.war!/ > > now the command > > http://localhost:8080/manager/install > > tells me that my app is running, but when I try to access it with > > http://localhost/dummy or http://localhost/dummy/index.jsp it says the > resource is not available. I kinda thought Tomcat could access the war file > > in it's bundled state but after reading the docs I got the impression the > manager app was gonna expand it, is that true? In my case the file wasn't > expanded. After some head scratching I figured I'd manually expand the war > file in the $CATALINA_HOME/ROOT dir. After doing that and restarting Tomcat > > everything works fine with http://localhost/index.jsp. > > So, let me ask a few questions > > 1) What does the manager app do > does it modify $CATALINA_HOME/conf/server.xml > should it expand the war file > > 2)If I'm gonna deploy multiple apps, what's the typical dir structure > $CATALINA_HOME/ROOT/app1, $CATALINA_HOME/ROOT/app2, etc > could i deploy an app outside the Tomcat dir structure (ie /home/mydir) > > 3)Is this the correct flow of things > Tomcat starts up and reads $CATALINA_HOME/conf/server.xml and now knows > about the apps that are installed and what path they're mapped to. when a > client tries to access an app, Tomcat goes and looks in the jar file and > reads web.xml to discover what all is in the war file. Within the war file > any static content goes in the WEB-INF dir, class files go in WEB- > INF/classes and .jar files goe in WEB-INF/lib > > hep me, hep me > > Dave > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:[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]>
