title: What could be the reason for war files not exploding?
body: <p>War files and not exploding after deploying them to webapps folder.</p>
  
  <p>We are using tomcat 7, below is the process which I followed.</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>stopped the tomcat service</li>
  <li>deployed the war file</li>
  <li>started the tomcat service</li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>I have set auto deploy and unpackwars to "True"</p>
  
  <p>below is the server.xml file:</p>
  
  <p></p>
  
  <pre><code>  &lt;Host name="x.x.x.x"  appBase="/var/lib/dweb13s2/webapps"
          unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true"&gt;
  
      &lt;!-- SingleSignOn valve, share authentication between web applications
           Documentation at: /docs/config/valve.html --&gt;
      &lt;!--
      &lt;Valve className="org.apache.catalina.authenticator.SingleSignOn" /&gt;
      --&gt;
  
      &lt;!-- Access log processes all example.
           Documentation at: /docs/config/valve.html
           Note: The pattern used is equivalent to using pattern="common" --&gt;
      &lt;Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve" directory="logs"
             prefix="localhost_access_log." suffix=".txt"
             pattern="%h %l %u %t &amp;quot;%r&amp;quot; %s %b" /&gt;
  
    &lt;/Host&gt;
  </code></pre>