Manually extract WAR file?

I have a completed JSP/servlet website that I'm trying to deploy on a webhosting site but I'm having some problems. The root directory is apparantly /html and then there's a /web-inf folder in that that containts a /classes and /lib folder. I've tried placing the war file in the /html and the /web-inf folder and having them restart tomcat, but it won't automatically uncompress the war file. I don't have access to any of the server configuration files. Is there a line of code I can use to telnet in and manually extract the war file?

Easy enough,
*.jar, *.war, and *.ear files are really zip files. What you can do is use the jar command "jar -xf file.jar" since your extention is war you might want to do "mv blah.war blah.jar". I am not sure if jar will spit errors cause of the extention. So just rename the war file if it does.
You can also do "mv blah.war blah.zip" followed by "unzip blah.zip"
I hope this helps.
-Richard Burton

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Hello,
I had a problem in extracting .war file.
I got a .war file to deploy in weblogic application server.
I want to extract this file and look inside it (need to edit) but i couldn't.
I use this commnand and got following error.
[sarad.mk@inek2 sampleapp]$ ls
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rocky777 wrote:
Hello,
I had a problem in extracting .war file.
I got a .war file to deploy in weblogic application server.
I want to extract this file and look inside it (need to edit) but i couldn't.
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Can anyone please help me out quick. I am in real difficult.
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( echo $PATH ).
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Anand,
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DRE
BEA Technical Support

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          hi
          Is there any attribute to extract the WAR file at the time of deployment.Please
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          Anand MOhan


On Wed, 04 Dec 2002 00:30:57 +0000, Anand wrote:
          >
          > hi
          > Is there any attribute to extract the WAR file at the time of deployment.Please
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          >
          > Regards
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4] Stop server.
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hi.
I have put my SEA.WAR (test WAR file) into /webapps of
TOMCAT.
I checked the server.xml and put:
     <Context path="/SEA" docBase="SEA" debug="0"/>
I restarted TOMCAT and tried to execute the file:
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But I got error message:
Apache Tomcat/4.0.3 - HTTP Status 404 -
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while running build file of portletpreparer tool to create .portlet files from the war.
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a) Set your environment variable IWS_SERVER_HOME to your server_root directory.
b) Add the server_root/bin/https/httpsadmin/bin directory to your classpath.
c) Configure your virtual server for web applications.
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/iws60/plugins/servlets/examples/web-apps/HelloWorld/HelloWorld.war
The syntax for the command is as follows:
wdeploy deploy -u uri_path -i instance -v vs_id [-d directory] war_file
uri_path Specify the URI prefix (a path to access the web application from the browser).
instance Specify the server instance name. (Note: Do not include "https" in the front.)
vs_id Specify the Virtual Server name as it appears on the Manage Virtual Servers page.
directory Specify a directory to extract WAR files. If this directory doesn't exist already, it will be created for you now.
war_file Specify the name of the WAR file.
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colors
index.jsp
META-INF
WEB-INF/
web.xml
/classes/
HelloWorldServlet.class
HelloWorldServlet.java
SnoopServlet.class
SnoopServlet.java
In the server_instance/config directory, the web-apps.xml file should have the following entry:
<vs>
<web-app uri="/hello"
dir="/iws60/https-server.iplanet.com/testvs/web-apps/hello"/>
</vs>
Restart the server instance from the command line or go to the admin GUI and apply configuration changes to the server instance.
Now when you access the webserver instance in your browser, the Error log of that server instance will record successful initialization of the web application environment(web-apps.xml) for the virtual server(vs name). You can access the web application from a browser as follows:
http://server.Mydomain.com:80/hello/index.jsp
or:
http://server.Mydomain.com/hello/
The syntax is as follows:
http://vs_urlhost[:vs_port]/uri_path/[index_page]
Thanks
Selva

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<Context path="/SEA" docBase="SEA" debug="0"/>
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<Context path="/SEA" docBase="SEA" debug="0"/>
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On a weblogic I have
to offer a test environment
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of the extracted archieve for faster testing.
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Hi.
Not sure what could be the cause. Are you running the latest service pack (sp2)? If not
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the directories.
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Hi there,
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but the server is running and the applications work fine. Should I just ignore
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thanx
Alex--
Michael Young
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BEA Support

How to extract a WAR file..

Hi,
How to extract a WAR file.. please help me..
thanks in advance

Hi,
It's simple. If u use tomcat server it put in webapps directory and start server u can see unzip war file. OR
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try it

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Hi Experts,
I am trying to import a WAR file, make changes to the project and create an EAR file for the same. I am not able to remove import
errors despite of adding required jar files to it.
Also, I am not able to create an EAR file for the same.
I have copied the steps here with screen shots. Below are the steps :
Import WAR file in NWDS 7.3 – Enterprise Portal perspective
Select WAR file to create WAR and EAR project for it.
Project created with import errors. e.g – com.sapportals.portal.prt*
Found jar file from Class – target jar file table.
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Configure Build path and Add External jars.
Portalapp file screen shot
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In JWSDP 1.1 xrpcc would create a *Config.properties file, and I would add the following to my web.xml file
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2. Is the configuraiton I'm using optimal for use with 1.2 (I haven't even looked at 1.3 yet)?
3. Does anyone else build/deploy not using WAR files?!? Do you have any ideas/suggestions/experience that might be helpful.

I dont know if this will help, but I also use a config.properties to load my servlet values and also using JWSDP 1.2 .
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