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http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4829 Automatic deployment of war files does not work properly ------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2002-03-22 18:36 ------- I have also observed this behavior. This probably could be considered more of a bug in the documentation than the code. The 4.0 on-line docs state you can "set (the unpackWARS attribute of a <Host> element) to true if you want web applications that are deployed into this virtual host from a Web Application Archive (WAR) file to be unpacked into a disk directory structure." They also state that "(y)ou can nest one or more Context elements inside this Host element, each representing a different web application associated with this virtual host." As to Context, "(t)he <Context> element represents a web application, which is run within a particular virtual host. Each web application is based on a Web Application Archive (WAR) file, or a corresponding directory containing the corresponding unpacked contents...", and that"(e)ach (<Context> element) MUST have a unique context path, which is defined by the path attribute." The docs don't say that before Tomcat unpacks any warfiles, it will first attempt to verify the context path of a <Context> element by checking for a web.xml file in the corresponding webapp WEB-INF directories. It also doesn't state that if it can't find the web.xml file in the context path directory referenced by the <Context> element, it will shut down. If anything, the desired behavior should be the opposite: unpack the warfiles, then check the <Context> elements in server.xml against the appropriate web.xml. That might be a little less irritating than not. PaulGarvie -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
