Although I think this is too restrictive in a sense that war files should be deployable and any requirements to write to a directory should be relative or using tmp work dir
Well, you need to modify the configuration file from inside the WAR file... You *can* deploy JSPWiki as a WAR-file, but then you need to set up the config file by hand and set it up in a container-specific manner.
It's much easier for the majority of the users to unzip the war file, then modify the jspwiki.properties from WEB-INF. Those instructions work for all containers the same way.
/Janne
