Hi, When I deploy (/manager) some web-application with extension .WAR (uppercase) then I see: SEVERE: HTMLManager: FAIL - Deploy Upload Failed, Exception: String index out of range: -1 java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: String index out of range: -1 at java.lang.String.substring(Unknown Source) at org.apache.catalina.manager.HTMLManagerServlet.doPost(HTMLManagerServlet.java:194) In source of HTMLManagerServlet: 194: basename = war.substring(0, war.indexOf(".war")); // no lowerCase BUT: 180: if (!war.toLowerCase().endsWith(".war")) // lowerCase --- May be is better make so: 194: basename = war.substring(0, war.toLowerCase().indexOf(".war")); Thanks. Anton. PS I am sorry for my English :)
Don't worry about your English ;) Good catch, good recommendation, I've applied it for 5.5.13. Thank you ;)