trouble deploying .WAR to tomcat

Question

im having trouble deploying a war file on tomcat.

i have written a webapp in netbeans on my windows machine. it all runs fine. what i want to do is deploy the applicatio

Answer 1

the war archive is corrupt or invalid.

check that the war generation procedure is not failing and that the war file is a valid zip file prior to copying to your pen drive etc.

if you're on windows you can do this by changing the file extension to .zip and opening with a zip program such as winzip or winrar.

if you're on another operating system you probably don't need to change the extension.

if the war is a valid zip it's probably being corrupted as a result of your transfer process ie going onto or from your pen drive.