Hi,
see this:
<Host name="localhost" debug="0" appBase="webapps"
unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true"
xmlValidation="false" xmlNamespaceAware="false">
There is unpackWARs attribute in the Host element in the server.xml.
But I'm not sure that you have asked about this.
Lipi
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> From: Simon Brooke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2004 3:17 PM
> To: Tomcat Users List
> Subject: Persistent workspace
>
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> I've been deploying webapps with Tomcat since 1997, so you'd think I
> should
> know what I'm doing by now...
>
> But I find I don't. I'm increasingly trying to package my webapps so
that
> they
> can be 'just dropped in' without any skill or knowledge being needed
by
> the
> site administrator to get them set up and deployed, and this has
raised
> two
> problems with relation to persistent workspace.
>
> If a preconfigured war file is installed into Tomcat using the manager
> webapp,
> it doesn't get unpacked, and in many ways that's a good thing. But I
have
> up
> till now used sub-directories of the webapp root directory to store
> persistent data, for example cached pages and uploaded files. More
> particularly, I've been using the presence of a file
'WEB-INF/hymen.txt'
> as a
> marker that this webapp has never been accessed before and needs final
> initialisation, and had any servlet redirect to a special servlet
which
> handled final setup if that file exists. Obviously, the final setup
> servlet
> then removed the marker file. Clearly neither of these things work if
the
> webapp is delivered as a war file.
>
> Generally my webapps talk to databases (usually SQL databases, but
could
> be
> LDAP, or other things) so it should be possible to replace the
'hymen.txt'
> mechanism with a simple database call which will succeed if the
database
> has
> been initialised but fail if it hasn't.
>
> However this doesn't solve the problem of where to put caches and
upload
> directories, and I can't find anything in the Servlet API which helps
with
> this. I really don't want to be storing large lumps of arbitrary data
into
> the database.
>
> Is there any mechanism in the Servlet spec which allows me either
> (i) to request that my war file should be unpacked when it is
deployed, or
> else
> (ii) to get hold of some persistent filespace that my webapp can write
to?
>
> Cheers
>
> Simon
>
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