I'm having the same problem with unpacking updated war files when the directory already exists.
Anyone out there know what's up? Jeff ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Teter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2002 11:03 AM Subject: manager/remove functionality > Hello. > > I'm just beginning to use the manager app to deploy my > app instead of dropping a myapp.war file into the > webapps dir, deleting the webapps/myapp directory and > myapp.war file, stopping Tomcat, and retarting Tomcat. > > The stopping and restarting of Tomcat was a real drag. > > So now I do manager/install ... my war file from my > dist directory, and that makes my app available. I > like it so far. But then I modify my app, build (with > ant), manager/remove, and manager/install. > > That doesn't work unless I manually (or as part of my > ant dist activity) delete webapps/myapp directory. > > Now to my point. I would expect manager/remove to > completely remove the app (including the webapps/myapp > directory.) It doesn't remove the directory, so > subsequent manager/install attempts do nothing. At > least, I can't see my changes unless I: ant dist > (including rm $TOMCAT_HOME/webapps/myapp), > manager/remove, and then manager/install. > > Am I misusing this or misunderstanding it? Shouldn't > manager/remove actually remove the webapps/myapp dir? > Or shouldn't manager/install remove or overwrite the > webapps/myapp directory or its contents? > > Thanks for any pointers. (I've read what > documentation I can find on Manager app, but it's > fairly sparse.) I suppose I could change manager's > behavior by modifying its source, but I'll reserve > that for last. > > Michael > > PS: anyone know how to get XEmacs to highlight > Java/JSP code? any pointers there would be welcome... > not much useful answers to this question from what I > can find on the net. > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Movies - coverage of the 74th Academy Awards® > http://movies.yahoo.com/ > > -- > 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]>
