newbe is trying but just can not seem to get started - help

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1)I�ve got a slight problem with jforum- I cant get anywhere with it !

2) I�m not working in the industry my web site in construction is a project, however I have got tomcat running ( 5.5.25) and have several jps working ; also I managed to get jchatbox working by simply downloading their war file and plonking it into webapps, I simply re-tarted tomcat and it unpacked. After that I followed their few instructions such as putting the absolute path in the web.xml and it worked.

Back to jforum- I downloaded the jforum war file & plonked it into webapps, I restarted tomcat & put http://localhost:8080/jforum/install.jsp in my web address, and got 404 resource not available.


The war file did unpack & I can see the install.jsp file inside the folder. It can not be anything to do with class path(can it) since tomcat is in the class path, so everything inside tomcat should be in the class path. Also jchatbx worked why doesn�t jforum?
any ideas ?


[originally posted on jforum.net by andrew]

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Is install.jsp in a jforum (case matters) directory under your Tomcat webapps directory?

Sometimes war file layouts can be tricky...
[originally posted on jforum.net by monroe]

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hi,

Yes directory structure of tomcat & jforum is:
C:/apache-tomcat-5.5.25/webapps/jforum

Inside the first jforum directory is : jforum and META-INF
Inside the second jforum is install.jsp , index.html , documentation.html & folders-images, templates, META-INF, temp,tools, upgrade.


Is there a duplication going on causing the problem ?

[originally posted on jforum.net by andrew]

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Yes, all the stuff in the jforum directory under webapps\jforum needs to be one level up.
[originally posted on jforum.net by monroe]