tomcat7-maven-plugin contextFile on remote server

Question

I am trying to setup maven to deploy my application to Tomcat for different environments. Everything works when I deploy to localhost, but when trying to deploy to a development server, it fails to deploy. However if I tell the tomcat7-maven-plugin not to deploy the context.xml file, everything works.

pom.xml

...
<profiles>
    <profile>
        <id>local</id>
        <build>
            <plugins>
                <plugin>
                    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                    <artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
                    <version>2.4</version>
                    <configuration>
                        <webXml>src\main\webapp\WEB-INF\web.xml</webXml>
                    </configuration>
                </plugin>
                <plugin>
                    <groupId>org.apache.tomcat.maven</groupId>
                    <artifactId>tomcat7-maven-plugin</artifactId>
                    <version>2.2</version>
                    <configuration>
                        <url>http://localhost:8888/manager/text</url>
                        <username>admin</username>
                        <password>admin</password>
                        <mode>both</mode>
                        <contextFile>${project.build.directory}/${project.build.finalName}/META-INF/local/context.xml</contextFile>
                    </configuration>
                </plugin>
            </plugins>
        </build>
    </profile>
    <profile>
        <id>dve</id>
        <build>
            <plugins>
                <plugin>
                    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                    <artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
                    <version>2.4</version>
                    <configuration>
                        <webXml>src\main\webapp\WEB-INF\web.xml</webXml>
                    </configuration>
                </plugin>
                <plugin>
                    <groupId>org.apache.tomcat.maven</groupId>
                    <artifactId>tomcat7-maven-plugin</artifactId>
                    <version>2.2</version>
                    <configuration>
                        <url>http://devserver.mycompany.com:8083/manager/text</url>
                        <username>myusername</username>
                        <password>mypassword</password>
                        <mode>both</mode>
                        <warFile>${project.build.directory}/${project.build.finalName}.war</warFile>
                        <contextFile>${project.build.directory}/${project.build.finalName}/META-INF/dve/context.xml</contextFile>
                    </configuration>
                </plugin>
            </plugins>
        </build>
    </profile>
</profiles>
...

This is what maven tells me when running mvn tomcat7:redeploy -Pdve:

...
[INFO] Deploying war and context to http://devserver.mycompany:8083/myProject
[DEBUG] No server specified for authentication - using defaults
[INFO] OK - Undeployed application at context path /eDiscovery
[INFO] FAIL - Failed to deploy application at context path /eDiscovery
...

And here is the catalina.out from "devserver"

Jan 10, 2014 1:34:00 PM org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log
INFO: Manager: install: Installing context configuration at 'file:/C:/Users/MyLocalUserName/git/myProject/target/myProject-0.0.1/META-INF/dve/context.xml' from 'file:/C:/Users/MyLocalUserName/git/myProject/target/myProject-0.0.1.war'
Jan 10, 2014 1:34:00 PM org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log
INFO: Manager: undeploy: Undeploying web application at '/myProject'
Jan 10, 2014 1:34:01 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig checkResources
INFO: Undeploying context [/myProject]
java.io.FileNotFoundException: /C:/Users/MyLocalUserName/git/myProject/target/myProject-0.0.1/META-INF/dve/context.xml (No such file or directory)
    at java.io.FileInputStream.open(Native Method)
    at java.io.FileInputStream.<init>(FileInputStream.java:120)
    at org.apache.catalina.manager.ManagerServlet.copyInternal(ManagerServlet.java:1652)
    at org.apache.catalina.manager.ManagerServlet.copy(ManagerServlet.java:1613)
    at org.apache.catalina.manager.ManagerServlet.deploy(ManagerServlet.java:843)
    at org.apache.catalina.manager.ManagerServlet.doGet(ManagerServlet.java:353)
    at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:621)
    at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:722)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:305)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:210)
    at org.apache.catalina.filters.SetCharacterEncodingFilter.doFilter(SetCharacterEncodingFilter.java:108)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:243)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:210)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:224)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:169)
    at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:581)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:168)
    at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:98)
    at org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve.invoke(AccessLogValve.java:927)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:118)
    at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:407)
    at org.apache.coyote.http11.AbstractHttp11Processor.process(AbstractHttp11Processor.java:987)
    at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$AbstractConnectionHandler.process(AbstractProtocol.java:579)
    at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$SocketProcessor.run(JIoEndpoint.java:307)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)
java.io.FileNotFoundException: /C:/Users/MyLocalUserName/git/myProject/target/myProject-0.0.1.war (No such file or directory)
    at java.io.FileInputStream.open(Native Method)
    at java.io.FileInputStream.<init>(FileInputStream.java:120)
    at org.apache.catalina.manager.ManagerServlet.copyInternal(ManagerServlet.java:1652)
    at org.apache.catalina.manager.ManagerServlet.copy(ManagerServlet.java:1613)
    at org.apache.catalina.manager.ManagerServlet.deploy(ManagerServlet.java:848)
    at org.apache.catalina.manager.ManagerServlet.doGet(ManagerServlet.java:353)
    at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:621)
    at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:722)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:305)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:210)
    at org.apache.catalina.filters.SetCharacterEncodingFilter.doFilter(SetCharacterEncodingFilter.java:108)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:243)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:210)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:224)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:169)
    at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:581)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:168)
    at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:98)
    at org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve.invoke(AccessLogValve.java:927)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:118)
    at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:407)
    at org.apache.coyote.http11.AbstractHttp11Processor.process(AbstractHttp11Processor.java:987)
    at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$AbstractConnectionHandler.process(AbstractProtocol.java:579)
    at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$SocketProcessor.run(JIoEndpoint.java:307)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)

It looks like the server is trying to load the context.xml file from my local path, that it does not have access to. Does anyone know how to fix this? If I turn off the loading of the context.xml (by changing the mode from both to war in the pom file.) everything works fine and the application loads.

Thanks.

Do you see the /C:/Users/MyLocalUserName/git/myProject/target/myProject-0.0.1.war? — J.P. Armstrong

Olivier Lamy Olivier Lamy · Accepted Answer · 2014-01-11T13:09:26

0

votes

Sorry not possible due to a Tomcat limitation. The context file must be on the server.

tomcat7-maven-plugin contextFile on remote server

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