I have looked through some of the similar threads but could not find answer to my problem.
My liferay tomcat server was working fine, including the hot deploy, until i changed the server.xml to add some new resources. After restarting the server, adding new wars in the deploy folder does not create the exploded folders in the webapps folder. The server does not even recognize then as I don't even see anything on the server console. Here is the relevant part from my server.xml:
<Host appBase="webapps" autoDeploy="true" deployXML="false"
name="localhost" unpackWARs="true" xmlNamespaceAware="false"
xmlValidation="false">
Please let me know if any other info is needed. Appreciate your help!