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[[Category:Configuration]]

The <web-app-deploy> tag configures the [[webapps]] directory, i.e. a location where you can drop [[.war]] files and have them expanded to web-apps.

Essentially, it's an automatic directory for <web-app> tags with [[document-directory and archive-path|archive-path]] attributes.

For example, in the default resin.conf, if you drop a foo.war in [[server.root]]/webapps, it will expand to webapps/foo and be browseable at http://www.foo.com/foo.

It's also possible to create a [[Web Application]] without a [[.war]] files by creating a directory in the webapps without  

 ...
 <web-app-deploy path="webapps"/>
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{|
||attribute||description||default
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||path||The location for both expansion directories and archives||none
|-
||archive-directory||The location for archive (.war) files||path
|-
||expand-directory||The directory where archives are expanded||path
|-
||url-prefix||Prefix for any URL access||none
|-
||expand-cleanup-fileset||List of files to delete on redeploy||delete entire archive
|-
||require-file||additional files which will force a reload||none
|-
||[[startup-mode]]||starting mode of deployed web-apps||automatic
|-
||[[redeploy-mode]]||mode for checking an redeploying web-apps||automatic
|-
||[[web-app-default]]||default configuration for all web-apps||none
|-
||[[web-app]]||overriding configuration for any deployed webapps||none
|-
|}