Hi Paul,
First, the BaseX pages tell me that the WAR distribution is 'deprecated'.
Sorry for the confusion. To be honest, I can't recall how this comment ended up in the documentation, as we will continue to provide the WAR file of BaseX. But it's a fact that we don't use this distribution by ourselves, so our experience with it is limited…
Second, where to put the files? I can ssh into the application and transfer files, but where do I put database files I already created with the Windows version of BaseX? And where the .xq files?
…which is why I would be glad if someone else working with the WAR distribution could give feedback on this. ;)
Christian