Hi I'm on 5.2 and 'have' to use tomcat 6 - I package it and can get the default install running fine - However when i drop my app into webapps/ as i war and start tomcat i get this INFO: Starting service Catalina Nov 28, 2008 10:44:15 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine start INFO: Starting Servlet Engine: Apache Tomcat/6.0.18 Nov 28, 2008 10:44:15 AM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployDescriptor WARNING: A docBase /xxxxx/xxx.war inside the host appBase has been specified, and will be ignored << error Nov 28, 2008 10:44:16 AM org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol start INFO: Starting Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-9080 Nov 28, 2008 10:44:16 AM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina start INFO: Server startup in 603 ms The error is noted with the << - Has anyone used tomcat 6 before as i am sure this used to work just fine in < 5.x ? If this is felt to be the wrong list for this then sorry about that, but i am sure many people are experienced with tomcat here. thanks