Symptoms

Deployment of an EAR file fails with the following exception:
com.sap.engine.services.servlets_jsp.server.exceptions.WebDeploymentException: Web application redirectForm does not contain "/WEB-INF/web.xml" file or it is spelt incorrectly

Keywords

• deployment fails
• web.xml file does not exists

Solution

1. Check the WAR file if there is a web.xml file present
2. If the web.xml file is present then check the directory entry in your war file is with upper case i.e. WEB-INF