Unable to unzip the WAR file inside Tomcat 6 server

Question

I uploaded the WAR file to the Tomcat 6 server in /var/lib/tomcat6/webapps . Usually Tomcat 6 server unzips the WAR file. I alreay uploaded 2 WAR files which automatically unzipped by Tomcat 6 server. When I uploaded the 3rd WAR file it didn't unzip automatically. I have the web app connected to the database.

Answer 1

Precisely Tomcat does not simply unzip the WAR. It makes various operations needed to deploy the webapp starting from the WAR.

There must be some problem inside the WAR. Eg a corrupted JAR in WEB-INF/lib .

Try

• copying another time the WAR in webapps folder (overwriting the previous copy)
• stopping and restarting Tomcat