Spring 4 with Annotation Tomcat Deployment 404 Error

Question

I am using Spring 4, Servlet 3 API and Tomcat 8 for my project. I have a problem with deployment. I am trying to deploy WAR package in my VPS. I am using Intellij IDEA.

I coppied my WAR to /opt/tomcat/webapps path. I can see WAR from Tomcat's apps page. But when I try to browse URL I get 404 Not Found error.

I am using Spring with annotation and empty web.xml and also I am using Spring Security.

WepAppInitializer.java

public class WepAppInitializer implements WebApplicationInitializer {

@Override
public void onStartup(final ServletContext servletContext) throws ServletException {
    AnnotationConfigWebApplicationContext ctx = new AnnotationConfigWebApplicationContext();
    ctx.register(WebConfig.class);
    ctx.setServletContext(servletContext);
    ServletRegistration.Dynamic dynamic = servletContext.addServlet("dispatcher", new DispatcherServlet(ctx));
    dynamic.addMapping("/acentecilik");
    dynamic.setLoadOnStartup(1);
    }
}

WebConfig.java

@Configuration
@EnableWebMvc
@EnableTransactionManagement
@ComponentScan("com.decimatech.acentecilik")
@PropertySource("classpath:application.properties")
public class WebConfig extends WebMvcConfigurerAdapter{

@Override
public void addInterceptors(InterceptorRegistry registry) {
    registry.addInterceptor(new ThymeleafLayoutInterceptor());
}


@Override
public void addResourceHandlers(ResourceHandlerRegistry registry){
    registry.addResourceHandler("/resources/**").addResourceLocations("/static/");
}

@Bean
@Description("Thymeleaf template resolver serving HTML 5")
public ServletContextTemplateResolver templateResolver() {
    ServletContextTemplateResolver templateResolver = new ServletContextTemplateResolver();
    templateResolver.setPrefix("/WEB-INF/html/");
    templateResolver.setSuffix(".html");
    templateResolver.setTemplateMode("LEGACYHTML5");
    templateResolver.setCharacterEncoding("UTF-8");
    templateResolver.setCacheable(false);

    return templateResolver;
}

@Bean
@Description("Thymeleaf template engine with Spring integration")
public SpringTemplateEngine templateEngine() {
    SpringTemplateEngine templateEngine = new SpringTemplateEngine();
    templateEngine.setTemplateResolver(templateResolver());

    return templateEngine;
}

@Bean
@Description("Thymeleaf view resolver")
public ThymeleafViewResolver viewResolver() {
    ThymeleafViewResolver viewResolver = new ThymeleafViewResolver();
    viewResolver.setTemplateEngine(templateEngine());
    viewResolver.setContentType("text/html;charset=UTF-8");
    viewResolver.setCharacterEncoding("utf-8");

    return viewResolver;
}

@Value("${spring.datasource.driver-class-name}")
private String driverClassName;

@Value("${spring.datasource.url}")
private String datasourceUrl;

@Value("${spring.datasource.username}")
private String datasourceUsername;

@Value("${spring.datasource.password}")
private String datasourcePassword;

@Bean(name = "dataSource")
public DataSource getDataSource() {
    DriverManagerDataSource dataSource = new DriverManagerDataSource();
    dataSource.setDriverClassName(driverClassName);
    dataSource.setUrl(datasourceUrl);
    dataSource.setUsername(datasourceUsername);
    dataSource.setPassword(datasourcePassword);

    return dataSource;
}

@Autowired
@Bean(name = "transactionManager")
public HibernateTransactionManager getTransactionManager(SessionFactory sessionFactory) {
    HibernateTransactionManager transactionManager = new HibernateTransactionManager(sessionFactory);

    return transactionManager;
}

@Autowired
@Bean(name = "sessionFactory")
public SessionFactory getSessionFactory(DataSource dataSource) {

    LocalSessionFactoryBuilder sessionBuilder = new LocalSessionFactoryBuilder(dataSource);

    sessionBuilder.scanPackages("com.decimatech.acentecilik.model");
    sessionBuilder.addProperties(getHibernateProperties());

    return sessionBuilder.buildSessionFactory();
}

private Properties getHibernateProperties() {
    Properties properties = new Properties();
    properties.put("hibernate.dialect", "org.hibernate.dialect.PostgreSQLDialect");
    properties.put("hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto", "update");
    properties.put("hibernate.show_sql", "true");
    properties.put("hibernate.format_sql", "true");
    properties.put("hibernate.use_sql_comments", "true");
    properties.put("hibernate.enable_lazy_load_no_trans", "true");
    return properties;
}

@Bean
public static PropertySourcesPlaceholderConfigurer propertySourcesPlaceholderConfigurer() {
    return new PropertySourcesPlaceholderConfigurer();
}
}

web.xml

<web-app xmlns="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee"
     xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
     xsi:schemaLocation="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee
                  http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_3_1.xsd"
     version="3.1"
     metadata-complete="true">

<display-name>Acentecilik</display-name>
<description>
    Acentecilik
</description>
</web-app>

pom.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
     xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
     xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>

<groupId>com.decimatech</groupId>
<artifactId>acentecilik</artifactId>
<version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>

//Some package dependencies

<build>
    <plugins>
        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>3.3</version>
            <configuration>
                <source>1.8</source>
                <target>1.8</target>
            </configuration>
        </plugin>

        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-resources-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>2.7</version>
            <configuration>
                <encoding>UTF-8</encoding>
            </configuration>
        </plugin>
    </plugins>
</build>

</project>

Here is some screenshot about what settings I used.

IDEA WAR Settings

Project Structures

Tomcat Manage Apps Page

And 404 Error

How can I solve this problem?

Here is my catalina log file's output. I changed WAR's ownership from root to tomcat user. But still same problem.

02-Oct-2015 16:03:23.800 SEVERE [localhost-startStop-10] org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.beforeStart Exception fixing docBase for context [/acentecilik] java.io.IOException: Unable to create the directory [/opt/tomcat/webapps/acentecilik] at org.apache.catalina.startup.ExpandWar.expand(ExpandWar.java:115) at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.fixDocBase(ContextConfig.java:618) at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.beforeStart(ContextConfig.java:744) at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.lifecycleEvent(ContextConfig.java:307) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:95) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleBase.java:90) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.setStateInternal(LifecycleBase.java:402) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:147) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:725) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:701) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:717) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWAR(HostConfig.java:945) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig$DeployWar.run(HostConfig.java:1798) at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:471) at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:262) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)

02-Oct-2015 16:03:58.561 INFO [localhost-startStop-10] org.apache.jasper.servlet.TldScanner.scanJars At least one JAR was scanned for TLDs yet contained no TLDs. Enable debug logging for this logger for a complete list of JARs that were scanned but no TLDs were found in them. Skipping unneeded JARs during scanning can improve startup time and JSP compilation time.

02-Oct-2015 16:03:58.649 INFO [localhost-startStop-10] org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWAR Deployment of web application archive /opt/tomcat/webapps/acentecilik.war has finished in 34,860 ms

Edit I changed /opt/tomcat/webapps ownership to tomcat and now I don't get the 404 error. But now I have this.

INFO [http-nio-8080-exec-17] org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext.log No Spring WebApplicationInitializer types detected on classpath

Have you checked Tomcat logs ? I guess there is nothing since you're getting a 404 error but just to be sure.. — Gaël J
just one thing, offtopic, you are trying to hide the "localhost" word which mentionned on the whole code ? — Chaibi Alaa
No. It is my test server's ip. So real world ip. @ChaibiAlaa — fatiherdem
I'm tempted to vote to close this as "Questions seeking debugging help ("why isn't this code working?") must include the desired behavior, a specific problem or error and the shortest code necessary to reproduce it in the question itself. Questions without a clear problem statement are not useful to other readers." Once you fix one issue, there's probably a plethora of others. @destan already answered the first issue. You should go for minimal example reproducing the problem, the deployment issue, not complex configurations like you have here. — eis
I write my all config files because I did't know where the problem is. I tought the problem could be related with config or Tomcat or Maven. That's why I write so much about problem. — fatiherdem

destan destan · Accepted Answer · 2015-10-03T12:20:06

the exception says

org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.beforeStart Exception fixing docBase for context [/acentecilik] java.io.IOException: Unable to create the directory

and you've already stated that tomcat is under /opt. so I suppose tomcat has not sufficient permission to create (write permission) on its own directory /opt/tomcat.

If you give write permission to the user who launches the tomcat (most probably your own user) then the problem goes away.

sudo chmod -R 0744 /opt/tomcat

Spring 4 with Annotation Tomcat Deployment 404 Error

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