Hi, Let's say your Application is named as Test.
try this. 1. Let the default web.xml be there. 2. Go to %CATALINA_HOME%\webapps\Test 3. jar -cvf Test.war 4. place Test.jar in %CATALINA_HOME%\webapps 3. Remove %CATALINA_HOME%\webapps\Test directory. Note no entry in sever.xml is needed. If you have a mapping for Test, make sure you remove it. in server.xml, you can specify unpackWARs=true to see the unpacked folder. If you make war file from %CATALINA_HOME%\webapps, you can see your directory structure, as %CATALINA_HOME%\webapps\Test\Test instead of %CATALINA_HOME%\webapps\Test. I'm using tomcat 4.1.10 with java 1.4.1. Madhava Reddy Try stomping the work file directory found in: /usr/local/tomcat/work/Standalone/localhost Then restart and see what happens. Oops - just reread your message. You need to change to /usr/local/tomcat/webapps. Then execute the following command: jar cvf apress.war apress/* The problem is you don't have your top level directory name when you change into the directory and jar the application. To convince yourself of this take your file and do a jar tf apress.war. Then remove the war file, change to the webapps directory, issue the jar cvf apress/* command and verify it with jar tf apress.war. HTH /mde/ just my two cents . . . . At 09:40 AM 1/19/2003 +0100, you wrote: Greetings! New to Jakarta and I'm stuck. Again, most likely an easy solution but I can't find it. I'm following the instructions in a book on deploying a war file yet it won't automatically expand when I restart Tomcat. Here's the steps I took and some config stuff: I cd to the working directory of the application, in this case /usr/local/tomcat/webapps/apress jar cvf apress.war . I then move apress.war to /usr/local/tomcat/webapps and delete the apress directory. Yet when I restart Tomcat the apress.war file remains and there is no directory called apress. I've read that Tomcat can use the war file rather than a directory but there are some problems. In my case the first page (jsp) appears ok, but it chokes when calling the servlet. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
