that's just behavior you will have to live with if you insist on using an ancient (by today's standards) version of Tomcat. Upgrade to the latest Tomcat5 release and do docBase="myapp.war" and the WAR file *will* be unpacked.
Jake Quoting Woodchuck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > i'm using tomcat 4.1.24 > > i have both unpackWARs and autoDeploy set to true. > > i have a context for myapp defined: > <Context path="/myapp" docBase="myapp" debug="0" > reloadable="true"> > > tomcat is not expanding my myapp.war file. why is this? so after > reading archives people suggested setting docbase="myapp.war" so i did > that, but my application is not working correctly, there are run-time > nullpointer exceptions. > > however, if i manually unpack my war, my app works fine, no errors. > > why is tomcat not unpacking? (or why does setting docBase="myapp.war" > not work 100%?) > > > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail is new and improved - Check it out! > http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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]