Re: [WEB400] "location.replace" question

["Colin Williams" <colin.williams@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Joe,

have you tried doing a web application restart, rather than a WAS instance
restart.

Not sure if it will make a difference, but worth a try.

cheers
colin.W
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "'Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries'" <web400@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2004 12:26 AM
Subject: RE: [WEB400] "location.replace" question


> Here's a fun one.
>
> I installed an application on WebSphere Express 5.0 using an EAR file.
> The application was installed correctly and the directory structure was
> blown out just fine.  Way down in my .war folder was a WEB-INF, and in
> that was my web.xml file.  I fired the application up and everything
> looked great; even the adminconsole app showed the descriptors properly,
> including the contents of the aforementioned web.xml file.
>
> And then the trouble started.  What I want to do is make a simple change
> to the web.xml file, and I cannot.  No matter what I do in the WEB-INF
> folder's web.xml file, it does not show up in the application.  I can
> shut down the server and bring it back up, and adminconsole still thinks
> the old web.xml file is in play.  Which is weird, because that file no
> longer exists, at least not with those contents.
>
> The most bizarre thing is that there is this strange folder wstemp under
> the WebSphere instance, and deep down in its bowels, the old web.xml
> file gets recreated.  It's as if somehow WebSphere has cached the old
> version of web.xml somewhere.  Is this possible?
>
> Joe
>
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