Hi Chuck, I tried using ROOT.war with Tomcat 5.5.12 and it worked fine. It does not work with Tomcat 4.1.x versions. I guess we will have to (finally) upgrade our Tomcat versions.
thanks for all your help... all of you... regards, Gautam. --- "Caldarale, Charles R" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
