Agreed Mark. This is not a valid war file, and would not install onto any
servlet container. If the jForum team doesn't want jForum installed directly as a war file, then it'd be better to provide no file than a broken one. (I understand that the app can't run directly from the war, but most servlet containers let you deploy a war file, which it will auto-explode).
I'd enter a Jira bug if the jForum Jira site was working.
[originally posted on jforum.net by blaine]