- *never* start tomcat as root: create a user "tomcat" if not already existing and run tomcat with that user-id
- if it's not a production-server with very high security, grant ftp-access to user "tomcat" - from your local pc, ftp to your ubuntu, login as user "tomcat" - change to directory "www/webapps" - put your web-app.war that's it be sure that autodeploy is set to true. having done so, there's no need to delete any directories on your ubuntu-server cheers gregor ps: before starting tomcat as user tomcat, you might have to issue chown -R tomcat:tomcat * in $CATALINA_HOME -- what's puzzlin' you, is the nature of my game gpgp-fp: 79A84FA526807026795E4209D3B3FE028B3170B2 gpgp-key available @ http://pgpkeys.pca.dfn.de:11371 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]