Let me clarify: Tomcat NEVER unpacks the war, not when it's restarted, and even if the directory is not there. On restart, Tomcat complains that it can't start the application, because the directory does not exists.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel Bruce Lynes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tomcat Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 10:09 AM Subject: Re: Tomcat 4.0.3. is not unpacking my WAR file > On March 21, 2002 08:02 am, you wrote: > > > Tomcat 4.0.3 is NOT unpacking my WAR file and my application > > is not getting loaded. Is this a bug or is there a configuration > > issue that I am missing. > > It'll only do this if the server is restarted. Tomcat doesn't support > on-the-fly deploy yet. I've also noticed that if the directory already > exists for the web application in question, that it never extracts the war > file. This seems to be the behaviour on all of the Tomcat versions I've > tried recently (3.2.1,3.2.3,3.3rc1,4.0.1). > > -- > To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Troubles with the list: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Troubles with the list: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>