Re: war fie not expanding, creating directory

[Jacob Kjome]

You, no doubt, are defining a <Context> for your app.  Don't specify that 
and you will get the default behavior of the .war's unpacking.  Whenever 
you specify a <Context> for your app, Tomcat will not unpack you .war file 
for you.  For instance, let's say you have...

myapp.war

<Context path="/myapp" docBase="myapp">

Tomcat matches up that Context entry to your .war file based on the docBase 
name being the base name for the .war file.  It, then ignores that .war 
file for unpacking.  You can do one of two things...

1.  Unpack the .war yourself using the "jar" command or any program that 
deals with .zip files.
2.  point to docBase="myapp.war" instead of a directory. Now you don't have 
to unpack and your app will just work.  The downside is that you have no 
file system access to the contents of your context.  But you shouldn't 
count on file system access to your context anyway based on what the 
servlet spec says.

Jake

At 08:36 AM 3/17/2003 -0600, you wrote:
I have created a war file primarily as a container for a group of servlets.
Strange thing is that it is not being unpacked by Tomcat 4.0.6 even though i
have set unpackWAR to true and if I unpack it manually it just extracts the
WEB-INF and related files to the webapps directory and does not create the
root directory from the name of the archive.
What am I doing wrong?

Thanks,
-Mark