I am not a Linux man myself but I would think that you do have a problem with the access rights - unless Tomcat is running as root, which I thing would be even worse. If not, the Tomcat user will need rw access to its webapp dir (and should own it) in order to unpack anything.
HTH, Jan Mark Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb am 13.12.2005 00:32:42: > I have Tomcat 5.5.9 running on a Linux server. I am having hard timedeploying > war files remotely from my Linux desktop over the LAN. I have tried the > following: > > 1. Upload war file using tomcat manager > I can access the war file on my local machine using the tomcat manager from > the server. So, I select the war file and click on deploy. I get the error > message - FAIL - Deploy Upload Failed, Exception: null > > Do I have a permissions problem? I am deploying to /var/webapps > (root.root) on > the server from my local machine. > > 2. Deploy a local war file > I copy the war file to my local directory the server (not the > appBase). I then > try to deploy the file: > > Context: /HopiRockets > URL: jar:file:/home/mark/HopiRockets/HopiRockets.war!/ > > and I get the error message: FAIL - Failed to deploy application at context > path /HopiRockets > > 3. Copy the war file to /var/webapps/. Tomcat recognizes the application and > it runs correctly. However, the application is never unpacked, so itis slow. > The server.xml file is setup to automatically unpack the war file, but tomcat > never does. > > <Host name="localhost" appBase="webapps" > unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true" > xmlValidation="false" xmlNamespaceAware="false"> > > Perhaps permission problem? /var/webapps is owned by root. > > Thanks for any help you can give me! > > -- > Mark Phillips > Phillips Marketing, Inc > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 602 524-0376 > 480 945-9197 fax > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]