What can cause a .war file not to show/load?

I've uploaded my .war file to /webapps. I'm able to see it in the path, but if I got to //localhost:8080/Test it's not pulling up....or if I got to the localhost/manager.

Any tips to look for?

btw, sorry if i posted this in the wrong spot. I'm new here and didn't quite know where this one fell. Thanks.

Tomcat? Resin? Websphere? Fred's Fabulous Server?

Tomcat 6.0
Mysql
JDK update 17 i think.

I set the context path="<name of my war file>"

I'm able to load it in Netbeans, but not on tomcat.

Moved to the Tomcat forum.

This is the error I'm getting. The .war file is in /webapps and I have other .war files visible when i go to tomcat manager....this one is not showing.

HTTP Status 404 - /MyApp

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type Status report

message /MyApp

description The requested resource (/MyApp) is not available.

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Apache Tomcat/6.0.24

I would start by looking in the tomcat logs. Tomcat is very good about logging any problems it is having when trying to deploy a web application.
I would:

Stop Tomcat

Delete all the logs in tomcat/logs

Remove the war file and the directory it created (if it did) from tomact/webapps

Start Tomcat

While watching the logs, copy the war file to the webapps directory again

This way you won't have to sift through any older issues to find out what is actually causing the problem.

I'll try this. Thanks for the reply.

It never created a directory/folder from my .war file. Does that matter or aid in the troubleshooting? my helloworld.war did.

This is what I got when I did the steps above.

Mar 15, 2010 8:04:50 AM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployWAR
SEVERE: Error deploying web application archive MYAPP.war
org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: The markup in the document following the root element must be well-formed.
        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(AbstractSAXParser.java:1231)
        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.SAXParserImpl$JAXPSAXParser.parse(SAXParserImpl.java:522)
        at org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.Digester.parse(Digester.java:1626)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWAR(HostConfig.java:873)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWARs(HostConfig.java:740)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:500)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.check(HostConfig.java:1345)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java:303)
        at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:119)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.backgroundProcess(ContainerBase.java:1337)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$ContainerBackgroundProcessor.processChildren(ContainerBase.java:1601)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$ContainerBackgroundProcessor.processChildren(ContainerBase.java:1610)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$ContainerBackgroundProcessor.run(ContainerBase.java:1590)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)

INFO: Deploying configuration descriptor MYAPP.xml
Mar 15, 2010 9:07:35 AM org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.Digester fatalError
SEVERE: Parse Fatal Error at line 3 column 6: The markup in the document following the root element must be well-formed.
org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: The markup in the document following the root element must be well-formed.
        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.createSAXParseException(ErrorHandlerWrapper.java:195)
        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.fatalError(ErrorHandlerWrapper.java:174)
        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(XMLErrorReporter.java:388)
        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLScanner.reportFatalError(XMLScanner.java:1414)
        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl$TrailingMiscDriver.next(XMLDocumentScannerImpl.java:1422)
        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl.next(XMLDocumentScannerImpl.java:648)
        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:510)
        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(XML11Configuration.java:807)
        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(XML11Configuration.java:737)
        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XMLParser.parse(XMLParser.java:107)
        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(AbstractSAXParser.java:1205)
        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.SAXParserImpl$JAXPSAXParser.parse(SAXParserImpl.java:522)
        at org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.Digester.parse(Digester.java:1626)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptor(HostConfig.java:593)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptors(HostConfig.java:563)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:498)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.start(HostConfig.java:1277)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java:321)
        at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:119)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1053)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:722)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1045)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:443)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:516)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:710)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:593)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)

Typical causes of this error are that the XML is not valid.

I don't know what happened, but I recreated the project under a different name in net beans and it works.

I just copied the files out of the orginal and pasted them in the new one too...strange. The only thing I could think of is that my project name/war file was the same name as my database. This may have cause conflicts in xml.