On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 7:12 PM, Caldarale, Charles R < chuck.caldar...@unisys.com> wrote:
> > From: Richard Sickler [mailto:richard.sick...@avagotech.com] > > Subject: Problem on Tomcat 6.0.20 > > > > when I copy the war, (WebApplication2.war) to > > c:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 6.0\webapps > > on my Windows Server 2008 machine, and rename it to ROOT.war > > Unless Tomcat is stopped, this is not good practice. You first make then > webapp visible to Tomcat as WebApplication2, then make that disappear and > materialize the ROOT webapp. Better to do the renaming as part of the copy > to avoid confusing the container or make sure Tomcat is not running. > > > Feb 1, 2010 6:33:14 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext > > resourcesStart > > SEVERE: Error starting static Resources > > java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Document base > > C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\ > > Tomcat 6.0\webapps\WebApplication2 does not exist > > or is not a readable directory > > You may well have a WebApplication2.xml file in the conf/Catalina/[host] > directory, left over from a previous deployment attempt. Check for that and > delete it. > > You were correct. I removed a file and a directory named WebApplication2, and that cleared up that problem. On to the next undocumented feature! Thanks. > - Chuck > > > THIS COMMUNICATION MAY CONTAIN CONFIDENTIAL AND/OR OTHERWISE PROPRIETARY > MATERIAL and is thus for use only by the intended recipient. If you received > this in error, please contact the sender and delete the e-mail and its > attachments from all computers. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > >
