Tomcat wouldn't unpack myapp.war even if unpackWar="true" unless myapp.war actually found its way into the appBase of the host which by default in Tomcat is CATALINA_HOME/webapps. Using the Tomcat ant manager tasks to "deploy" a .war to Tomcat, this simply doesn't happen. The .war is not copied to the appBase and, therefore, does not get unpacked under the appBase.
If the docBase points to the .war file, even if the <Host> has unpackWARs="true", the .war file will not be unpacked. I think this is what you are saying, although I'm not sure. I just tested it and it works just as I've described. I'm not sure what Paul is doing to get the behavior he see's???
OK, now I'm thoroughly confused. I believe your description of what you see, and I believe that is what I *should* be seeing. However, its clearly NOT what I'm seeing. And sure, I assume I'm doing something wrong, but I have no idea *what* (especially since I'm doing the same steps that worked with all Tomcat releases up to 4.1.18-LE).
+ I'm using the ant manager tasks for everything (org.apache.catalina.ant.DeployTask and org.apache.catalina.ant.UndeployTask).
+ My build file first runs "undeploy", then "deploy".
+ I uninstalled my old Tomcat instance, which fully removed the TOMCAT_HOME folder.
+ I installed Tomcat 4.1.24-LE.
+ I ran my ant tasks to deploy my webapp.
After this, I end up with:
+ <Context> entry for my webapp in my server.xml that points docBase to TOMCAT_HOME/webapps/[webapp].
+ TOMCAT_HOME/webapps/[webapp] containing the expaned contents of my war.
+ War ends up in TOMCAT_HOME/work/Standalone/localhost/manager/[webapp].war
Then I have to use org.apache.catalina.ant.RemoveTask to remove the webapp (deleting the TOMCAT_HOME/webapps/[webapp] folder and the <Context> entry.
*Then*, if I modify the "unpackWARs" attribute of the <Host> element in my server.xml (setting it to false) and do exactly the same steps as above, I get the behavior I expect: the webapp is *not* unpacked, and its docBase points to the TOMCAT_HOME/work/Standalone/localhost/manager/[webapp].war
*EVEN* if I then change unpackWARs back to true and redploy, I get the behavior I described originally -- the WAR is unpacked! SO even once I have the correct <Context> entry, redeployment changes the entry and unpacks the war. :(
Am I really the only one that is seeing this behavior??? :( :(
What am *I* doing???? I'd really like to figure out what I've done wrong. Please help....
-- PC
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