Regarding tomcat and extracted files,
I configured server.xml on auto deploy : true. The name of my war file is ROOT.war, since I don't want / subdir after the .com site.
But I do not see the .css.js.java or .class files in / webappts / ROOT or anywhere. (I have them in ROOT.war, and the site is working fine, reflecting them)
I only see .class and .java in
/var/cache/tomcat7/Catalina/localhost/_/org/apache/jsp/
/var/cache/tomcat7/Catalina/localhost/_/WEB-INF/classes/
how to configure tomcat to explode a .war file?
Update I
I Host name="localhost" appBase="/home/ubuntu/www" unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true"
and I still do not see the unpacking. My ROOT.war is located at / home / ubuntu / www
Update II
One problem that I see is this:
Feb 27, 2013 6:29:02 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployWAR
INFO: Deploying web application archive /home/ubuntu/www/ROOT.war
Feb 27, 2013 6:29:02 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig init
SEVERE: Exception fixing docBase for context []
java.io.IOException: Unable to create the directory [/home/ubuntu/www/ROOT]
at org.apache.catalina.startup.ExpandWar.expand(ExpandWar.java:100)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.fixDocBase(ContextConfig.java:720)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.init(ContextConfig.java:843)
If I manually do a ROOT in / home / ubuntu / www / using chmod 777 . it gives 404 error (does not exist)