Undeploy web application from tomcat doesn't remove the deployed directory

java tomcat undeploy
Shahe picture Shahe · Dec 23, 2013 · Viewed 19.4k times · Source

I am using tomcat manager commands to deploy and undeploy web applications on a tomcat server. The problem is when I try to undeploy a web application, it does remove the .war file from the webapps directory but the exploded directory doesn't get removed (the WEB-INF/lib folder), neither from the List Applications in the tomcat mananger.

I am on Windows and I am using Tomcat 6.0.20.

Note: When I tried to delete the directory manually it gave me an error saying that the file is being used by another program.

Answer

Shahe picture Shahe · Dec 24, 2013

I found the solution, just put this in your context.xml file in your_tomcat_home_directory/Config:

<Context antiJARLocking="true" antiResourceLocking="true">

Everything works fine.

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