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Genadinik
Asked: 2011-04-07 14:04:12 +0800 CST

Is a new .war file uploaded to the webapps directory supposed to force tomcat restart?

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I am putting together a new build environment and when I upload a new .war file, Tomcat does not seem to be unwrapping it into a directory structure, or restarting.

Does there have to be some setting that needs to be set for this? I am using ubuntu

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    To get the autodeploy behavior, you'll want to find the <Host> block in your Tomcat config, and make sure the following is part of it: unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true"

    As long as those are set, it should automatically explode the .war file. Keep in mind that this only applies to .war files placed in the webapps directory.

    A service restart is not necessary for a redeploy, so you should not expect to see the Tomcat service restart itself.

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