Johannes Schaefer wrote:
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We're using Forrest either in "live" mode ('forrest run')
or to produce static (HTML, PDF) content, so I cannot help
you with Tomcat ('forrest webapp-local').

You did

"forrest webapp-local"

and copied

forrest\site-author\build\webapp in tomcat 5.5.9 webapp

and got the following error message (localhost/forrest):

type Status report
message Servlet Cocoon is not available
description The requested resource (Servlet Cocoon is not
available) is not available.


From what I see in the documentation it may be that you need
to do 'forrest webapp' w/o the "-local", but the documentation
may be wrong :-(   See:
  http://forrest.apache.org/docs_0_70/your-project.html#forrest_run
  http://forrest.apache.org/docs_0_70/primer.html

No the documentation is correct. Although there was a user reporting issues with plugins in the war file recently. So you may still find problems with that. Please let us know if you do.

Ross