hi,
i will explain the scenario, we have deployed a software which is created using
servlets and
jsp and jtds to communicate with sql server 2005. the application is running on
tomcat 6.0
the server in which the application and tomcat is running is in europe (clients head office) , the client using the application is in India. the application is working good from 2009, time by time they requested changes in software and we will finish it and upload to the server , they have given the shared access to the web-apps folder of tomcat, and we have amended the server.xml in the conf folder to allow autodeploy. i used to copy the war file to the webapps folders , the site will be get updated this was going well till this January, i dont know what happen suddenly
when ever i copy the war file to webapps folder , the application is not working. i.e. the browser throws 404 error. now i have to call the sever maintenance guy and i have to literally beg him to go to the tom cat manager stop the application undeploy it and redeploy . then the application starts working. i am able to see the tomcat welcome page in my client system but unable to login to the manager , so what are my options and why this is happening.