I tested this on a Lucee Express 4.5.1.006 on Windows 7 64-Bit.
My simple test setup was:
* creating a directory "test1" in the webroot, put a more-or-less-nonsense index.cfm there ("<cfoutput>#now()#</cfoutput")
* in the web admin created a mapping "/test1" for "{web-root-directory}/test1"
* created the archive in the web admin and downloaded it, got a "archive-test1.lar".
From here on I'm not sure about the right way to continue:
Does the mapping have to exists for auto-deploy? I'd suppose not, but not sure here.
Does the directory for the mapping have to exists? Totally unsure.
I tried all variants without success:
* directory exists, mapping not
* directory exists, mapping exists
* directory and mapping don't exist
I all cases I put the archive-test1.lar into the WEB-INF\lucee\deploy folder.
Nothing happens (waiting for max. over 2 minutes). The archive file is still there, no mapping was created etc.
Thanks for stepping in, Micha!
Although - and that could be a good thing in the long run - I already downloaded the Lucee source and was starting to have a look around.
As Java is far from my day-to-day-slang this is an "interesting" journey right now ;-)
Christian