No. its' not necessary but convenient way to deploy app. You may directly copy the entire dir into context dir and start the tomcat. It will stillwork.
Are you sure the file name is Index.sjp and NOT index.jsp? navjot singh |-----Original Message----- |From: Jagannayakam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] |Sent: Monday, July 07, 2003 5:24 PM |To: Struts Users Mailing List (E-mail) |Subject: is war file essential | | |Hi all , | |I am using tomcat 4.1.24 . I am trying to start with struts. Is it |essential |that the application should be deployed as war file only . | | |Suppose if i have index.jsp in my webapp/MyExample directory . this page |is defined in the web.xml in webapp/MyExample/web-inf as | | <welcome-file-list> | <welcome-file>Index.jsp</welcome-file> | </welcome-file-list> | | |But after starting the tomcat server and if i give the url as |http://localhost:8080/MyExample |the page is not getting identified . | |Regards, |Jagan. | | | |--------------------------------------------------------------------- |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]