How do I install axis2 into tomcat6?

Question

I'm trying to install axis2 onto tomcat6 and I'm having some difficulties.

I've installed tomcat6 using apt and I've downloaded the axis2.war file and placed it in /usr/share/tomcat6/webapps/.

From the instructions I'm following, tomcat should now unpack the war file and create and axis2 directory in webapps/ but this is not happening.

I can see the default tomcat page on http://localhost:8080/ but I cannot see the axis2 page on http://localhost:8080/axis2/

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

I managed to figure this out. In tomcat6, you need to set-up an admin user and go to the manager application to launch war files. Problem solved :)

Answer 2

Copy axis2.war under the path /var/lib/tomcat6/webapps which is my case, you can check in your system. But make it sure that you are not copying else where or inside webapps any other folder like root (/).

Once you've copied axis2.war in the above path then restart the tomcat6 server from path /usr/share/tomcat6 by using

./shutdown.sh 

and

./startup.sh.