WAR Deployment: Should a WAR 'unpack' when deployed?

[chris kirby]

I am just beginning to work with Tomcat and have attempted to deploy web applications. After creating a .WAR file and adding a new entry to the server.xml file
(<Context path="/mydev" docBase="c:/tomcat/webapps/mydev.war" debug="0" <br /> reloadable="true"/><Context path="/mydev" docBase="c:/tomcat/webapps/mywar.war" debug="0" <br /> reloadable="true"/>)
I have placed the WAR file in the webapps directory. I seem able to access the JSP I have deployed, but I expected the WAR file to be unpacked, which doesn't happen. Is this the correct behavior?

[Mike Curwen]

No, it should unpackage itself.

Try removing that new entry from server.xml and see what happens.
[This message has been edited by Mike Curwen (edited November 19, 2001).]

[chris kirby]

Mike,
That worked! Thanks a lot.
Chris

[Mike Curwen]

As an 'end-note' for this post.. I saw this in another post in this forum, and perhaps it has something to do with your situation.
http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-4.0-doc/config/host.html

Check for the attribute "unpackWARs". Perhaps it was set to false?