Usually in the past web based deployment/undeployment has been through the manager app and not the admin app. The work directory is only for the compilation of the JSP. Can you deploy using ANT? Please reply with more info and maybe you will get a better response:
OS: type/version JDK: version Install dir: (path) c:\Apache Tomcat\whatever or /usr/local/Apache... JAVA_HOME: path CATALINA_HOME: path CLASSPATH: path ANT_HOME: path Karr, David wrote .. > I installed v5.5.25. I installed the "admin" app (although the > instructions on doing this seem uncertain). I used it for a few hours, > deploying and undeploying some experimental apps using MyFaces and > RichFaces. Now, for some reason, I'm finding that Tomcat won't start up > at all, and I've undeployed all the apps (except the admin app) that I > had deployed. I first only removed the war and exploded dir from the > webapps dir, but then I tried removing them from the > "work/Catalina/localhost" directory also. > > The error I'm seeing in the localhost log is this: > > java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: > org.apache.myfaces.webapp.StartupServletContextListener > at > org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader > .java:1362) > at > org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader > .java:1208) > at > org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.j > ava:3712) > at > org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4216 > ) > > Obviously, since something is still trying to reference MyFaces, there's > some remnant of one of my deployed apps lying around in a place that I'm > not aware of. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]