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Posted to users@tomcat.apache.org by Daniel Kehoe <ke...@fortuity.com> on 2002/09/01 02:19:43 UTC

deploying war file and "Document base ... does not exist"

Using TC4.1.9beta, I've got a myapp.war file (and matching myapp.xml
configuration file) I install successfully using the Tomcat Web
Application Manager. When I put the myapp.war and myapp.xml files in
<tomcat>/webapps and restart Tomcat (for permanent deployment) I get
the message:

Error initializing resources: Document base
C:\java\tomcat4\webapps\myapp does not exist or is not a readable
directory

The myapp.xml file contains:
<Context path="/myapp" docBase="myapp" 
debug="5" reloadable="true" crossContext="true">
(plus it specifies a dataSource as a resource)

I know the docbase doesn't yet exist when Tomcat starts because the war
file hasn't been unarchived. How is this supposed to work? Is there an
alternative to specifying the docbase? Do I have to manually unarchive
the war file? It was easy with other apps in TC3.2, I just dropped war
files into webapps and they deployed without any complaints. Maybe I've
overlooked a configuration parameter?
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  kehoe@fortuity.com

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Re: deploying war file and "Document base ... does not exist"

Posted by Jacob Kjome <ho...@visi.com>.
Hmm.. .That's not even close to accurate.

Daniel is using a Context Configuration File which may contain a <Context 
... > element and make it so you don't have to modify the server.xml.  As 
far as the unwarring, Tomcat actualy will "not* automatically expand 
webapps which have a defined context element.  This is by design although 
some might consider it a bug.

There are 3 solutions:

1. in the <Context ...> element, point directly to the .war file as the docBase

2. expand the .war file yourself before starting Tomcat and point to the 
expanded directory in the docBase

3. Don't put your app inside $TOMCAT_HOME/webapps and use the install or 
deploy task to dynamically deploy your app.  This can be done through the 
ant tasks using something like....

<install
             url="${manager.url}"
             username="${manager.username}"
             password="${manager.password}"
             path="${app.path}"
             war="file://${build.home}/WEB-INF/myapp.xml" />

myapp.xml would have a <Context .... docBase="../"> or something like that 
pointing to the base of the webapp.  Note that I have *not* gotten this to 
work on Windows.  Craig R. McClanahan says it works for him on Linux.  This 
is the ideal solution, so if it works for you, I would use this one....and 
if you get it to work on Windows, please tell me which version of Tomcat 
you succeeded on and describe what you did to make it work.

later,

Jake


At 06:29 PM 8/31/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>Daniel,
>
>Tomcat will unjar (unwar?) the archived file by default. The <Context> entry
>should be in $CATALINA_HOME/lib/server.xml
>
>Garrett
>
>
>--- Daniel Kehoe <ke...@fortuity.com> wrote:
> > Using TC4.1.9beta, I've got a myapp.war file (and matching myapp.xml
> > configuration file) I install successfully using the Tomcat Web
> > Application Manager. When I put the myapp.war and myapp.xml files in
> > <tomcat>/webapps and restart Tomcat (for permanent deployment) I get
> > the message:
> >
> > Error initializing resources: Document base
> > C:\java\tomcat4\webapps\myapp does not exist or is not a readable
> > directory
> >
> > The myapp.xml file contains:
> > <Context path="/myapp" docBase="myapp"
> > debug="5" reloadable="true" crossContext="true">
> > (plus it specifies a dataSource as a resource)
> >
> > I know the docbase doesn't yet exist when Tomcat starts because the war
> > file hasn't been unarchived. How is this supposed to work? Is there an
> > alternative to specifying the docbase? Do I have to manually unarchive
> > the war file? It was easy with other apps in TC3.2, I just dropped war
> > files into webapps and they deployed without any complaints. Maybe I've
> > overlooked a configuration parameter?
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> >   Daniel
> >   kehoe@fortuity.com
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Re: deploying war file and "Document base ... does not exist"

Posted by garrett smith <ja...@yahoo.com>.
Daniel,

Tomcat will unjar (unwar?) the archived file by default. The <Context> entry
should be in $CATALINA_HOME/lib/server.xml

Garrett


--- Daniel Kehoe <ke...@fortuity.com> wrote:
> Using TC4.1.9beta, I've got a myapp.war file (and matching myapp.xml
> configuration file) I install successfully using the Tomcat Web
> Application Manager. When I put the myapp.war and myapp.xml files in
> <tomcat>/webapps and restart Tomcat (for permanent deployment) I get
> the message:
> 
> Error initializing resources: Document base
> C:\java\tomcat4\webapps\myapp does not exist or is not a readable
> directory
> 
> The myapp.xml file contains:
> <Context path="/myapp" docBase="myapp" 
> debug="5" reloadable="true" crossContext="true">
> (plus it specifies a dataSource as a resource)
> 
> I know the docbase doesn't yet exist when Tomcat starts because the war
> file hasn't been unarchived. How is this supposed to work? Is there an
> alternative to specifying the docbase? Do I have to manually unarchive
> the war file? It was easy with other apps in TC3.2, I just dropped war
> files into webapps and they deployed without any complaints. Maybe I've
> overlooked a configuration parameter?
> -- 
>   Daniel
>   kehoe@fortuity.com
> 
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> To unsubscribe, e-mail:   <ma...@jakarta.apache.org>
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