> From: Vivek Mohan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Deploying in ROOT folder using a war file > > Tomcat is extracting the files to localhost/_ because thats where it > knows it has to extract anything from the ROOT application.
However, that's true only if using the unpackWARs="false" setting. In that case, Tomcat extracts some of an app's .war file into a work/Catalina/localhost/<app_name> directory (where "_" is substituted for "ROOT" for some unknown reason, presumably historical). I just zip'd up my webapps/ROOT directory into a ROOT.war file in the webapps directory, deleted the now redundant webapps/ROOT, and restarted Tomcat. The result, as expected, was recreation of webapps/ROOT during Tomcat initialization. This is on level 5.5.12; I've never used any of the 4.x levels. The only way I could duplicate the behavior reported by the original poster was by setting unpackWARs to "false". Are you really, really sure you have it set to "true"? Can you try using a newer version of Tomcat? - Chuck THIS COMMUNICATION MAY CONTAIN CONFIDENTIAL AND/OR OTHERWISE PROPRIETARY MATERIAL and is thus for use only by the intended recipient. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the e-mail and its attachments from all computers. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
