Weblogic only deploys 'WEB-INF' directory....

Hi,
I desperatly try to deploy an exploded war file - but it seems weblogic just pics the web-inf folder & leaves everything else behind. Deployment failes because during startup the application tries to access a file stored outside the WEB-INF, which would be the top-level of the war archive.
Anyone knows why this is the case? Is this configureable somehow?
Weblogic version is 11g (10.3.2) under Windows....

Thanks for the quick response!
It's a Webservice using Axis.
I know that during startup, a servlet tries to load stuff like configuration details, logging details etc. "Unfortunatly" those files are stored in a config folder on the "root" level of the war file.
In essence, the structure looks like this:
---| some_webservices.war
------| WEB-INF
---------| lib
---------| ..........
------| META-INF
------| config
---------| ...some files...
If i deploy the whole thing as a archive, the applicaton works fine - but if I explode the war file & choose to deploy the root folder, weblogic just grabs the web-inf folder, copies it to the server & starts the application (which leads to the problem).
To answer your other questions:
- no there are no "weblogic" errors in the logfile - the only error comes from the application, because it tries to load a file from the config directory...

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