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From: Bob DeRemer <bob.deremer@thingworx.com>
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Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2011 11:49:49 -0700
Subject: HOW TO: re-deploy or undeploy a webapp when additional files are
 added after initial deployment
Thread-Topic: HOW TO: re-deploy or undeploy a webapp when additional files
 are added after initial deployment
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I'm running Tomcat 6.0.32 on Windows Server 2008 R2.

I am running into a problem when managing our webapp via the Tomcat Manager=
 App.  Specifically, if I add any files to our WEB-INF/extension directory =
in the exploded WAR directory after the initial deployment, an undeploy fai=
ls to completely remove our exploded webapp directory.  It removes everythi=
ng that was in the WAR, but leaves the manually added files.  In addition, =
if we attempt to deploy a new WAR when this skeleton directory is left, the=
 deploy says it's successful, but doesn't explode the new WAR.

If anyone has any suggestions on how we can add files into the exploded web=
app structure and still perform undeploy/re-deploy of our webapp, I would g=
reatly appreciate it.  Or, if there's a way to tell tomcat to completely re=
move the directory - regardless of additional files/directories, that would=
 probably work, too.

The only other options I can think of would be installing these dynamic ext=
ensions outside the webapp, but that's not ideal since some of these extens=
ions will be HTML/CSS content and we'd like to keep it all under the webapp=
 root.

Thanks,

Bob DeRemer
Senior Director, Architecture and Development

http://www.thingworx.com<http://www.thingworx.com/>
Skype: bob.deremer
O: 717.505.7923
M: 717.881.3986


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