To unpackWARs or not to unpackWARs

[EdwinL]

Uploading the war file through Plesk Panel 9.5.2, if I leave the server.xml entry at unpackWARs="false" then I get this error in catalina.out:

a)
java.io.FileNotFoundException: myapp.war (No such file or directory)

or if I go in and change the entry manually so that unpackWARs="true" then I have this error in catalina.out:

b)
java.io.FileNotFoundException: /usr/share/tomcat5/psa-webapps/myapp.mydomain.com/myapp/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF (No such file or directory)

because now that the war file is expanded, that directory and file indeed do not exist. Plesk has made it in the Linux filesystem so that it uses symbolic links pointing to the actually file somewhere else.

So basically it seems that unpackWARs="false" must stay?

And if so what might be the real problem? Error 'a)' is what baffles me.

All ideas welcome!

cheers
Ed


Jabez Networks, Inc.
Web Solutions, E-commerce, and SEO Consulting

 

[EdwinL]

Turns out to be a file access rights problem it seems. chmod to more access to tomcat5/ and sub-directories and saw error 'a' gone. I might have changed them manually a few days ago and caused the problem.

thanks
Ed
Jabez Networks, Inc.
Web Solutions, E-commerce, and SEO Consulting

 

[Amin Taheri]

What were they set to before/after?

 

[EdwinL]

It was a while ago and a lot of setup has changed. Perhaps you can start adding write access to the directories and post back your findings for others.

Ed
Jabez Networks, Inc.
Web Solutions, E-commerce, and SEO Consulting

 

[Amin Taheri]

I actually dont have the problem, I was hoping you could post that for the community in hopes it may help some one else