Hi Andre did you try to clean all folders below $TOMCAT_HOME/work, make sure the wars are not located in webapps (and recycle TC) ?
Martin ______________________________________________ Disclaimer and confidentiality note Everything in this e-mail and any attachments relates to the official business of Sender. This transmission is of a confidential nature and Sender does not endorse distribution to any party other than intended recipient. Sender does not necessarily endorse content contained within this transmission. > Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 21:19:29 +0100 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: users@tomcat.apache.org > Subject: Where does it find them ? > > Hi. > > At a customer runs a Tomcat 5.5.9, on Java 1.5, under HPUX 11.11. > It was installed from a standard HPUX package, which install in > /opt/hpws/tomcat, but otherwise looks pretty much like a plain vanilla > Tomcat5.x from the official site. > The package comes with a series of sample webapps, apparently installed > in /opt/hpws/tomcat/webapps. > I have added my own application under there too, and it works. > (Fine is another story, but that's not the crux here). > For various reasons, I wanted to slim down this Tomcat, and for that > remove the sample applications. > I thus created a backup directory somewhere, stopped Tomcat, and moved > the following subdir trees totally to this new dir : > ../webapps/jsp-examples > ../webapps/servlets-examples > ../webapps/webdav > (to respectively somewhere_else/webapps-saved/jsp-examples etc..) > then I restarted Tomcat. > > Tomcat starts, > and I have this kind of lines in the catalina.out logfile : > ... > Nov 21, 2008 11:12:51 AM org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol start > INFO: Starting Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-8081 > Nov 21, 2008 11:12:51 AM org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket init > INFO: JK: ajp13 listening on /0.0.0.0:8009 > Nov 21, 2008 11:12:51 AM org.apache.jk.server.JkMain start > INFO: Jk running ID=0 time=0/33 config=null > Nov 21, 2008 11:12:51 AM org.apache.catalina.storeconfig.StoreLoader load > INFO: Find registry server-registry.xml at classpath resource > Nov 21, 2008 11:12:52 AM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina start > INFO: Server startup in 10019 ms > ... > > So far, so good. > Using the Manager app, I don't see the above apps anymore (but still see > the ones I left sitting in /webapps, and can use them). > ... > > But a while later, I discover the following in the Tomcat catalina.out > logfile : > > Nov 21, 2008 11:57:39 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext stop > INFO: Container > org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[Catalina].[localhost].[/jsp-examples] > has not been started > Nov 21, 2008 11:57:41 AM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig > checkResources > INFO: Undeploying context [/jsp-examples] > Nov 21, 2008 11:57:48 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext stop > INFO: Container > org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[Catalina].[localhost].[/servlets-examples] > > has not been started > Nov 21, 2008 11:57:48 AM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig > checkResources > INFO: Undeploying context [/servlets-examples] > Nov 21, 2008 11:58:23 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext stop > INFO: Container > org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[Catalina].[localhost].[/webdav] > has not been started > Nov 21, 2008 11:58:23 AM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig > checkResources > INFO: Undeploying context [/webdav] > Nov 21, 2008 12:00:04 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext stop > > Now, my question is, considering these webapps are no longer "there" (in > mean in the tomcat/webapps directory, where does Tomcat find the > information about them, to see (apparently) that that they should have > been there ? > > Magic ? > > (An accessory question of course is why it takes Tomcat some 40+ minutes > to figure this out.) > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _________________________________________________________________ Get more done, have more fun, and stay more connected with Windows Mobile®. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/119642556/direct/01/