I am attempting to deploy my first web application. I have read many tutorials and have worked on it for sometime now. I simply cannot understand what is needed to complete the process. I do not know what files need to be modified and placed where. This is what I have come up with so far. I have a web application called myapp. Inside is a root directory called bluegrass. Bluegrass holds all my jsp and html pages along with a WEB-INF folder. This WEB-INF folder has three components. A Lib folder, a classes folder, and a web.xml file. My classes folder holds one java class. I compile this application using ant. I am left with a .WAR file. I take this .WAR file and place it in the root directory(webapps) of Tomcat5.5. Tomcat then takes the war file and distributes to the directory. I then go to my address line and type in the following: http://localhost:8080/manager/deploy?path=/myapp. When I do this I continually receive a Failed: failed to find application at context path /myapp. I then go back to check my file only to see that myapp is no longer there. I am not sure why whole folder keeps disappearing. Does anyone know if I am supposed to modify the manager.xml files or maybe create a context.xml file or modify the server.xml file?? This is what I am unclear on. I can give more info if needed.
