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Bug 360571

Summary:	Application base [...] for host [localhost] does not exist or is not a directory
Product:	[RT] Virgo	Reporter:	Violeta Georgieva <milesg78>
Component:	snaps	Assignee:	Glyn Normington <glyn.normington>
Status:	CLOSED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	trivial
Priority:	P3	CC:	eclipse, glyn.normington
Version:	3.0.1.RELEASE
Target Milestone:	3.5.1.RELEASE
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:

Description Violeta Georgieva

2011-10-11 14:17:35 EDT

"Application base [...] for host [localhost] does not exist or is not a
directory"

The erro message above is traced in the console when GW is started.

More info: http://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/t/245249/

Comment 1 Violeta Georgieva

2011-10-11 14:21:22 EDT

In tomcat-server.xml there was not Host's attibute "appBase". So Tomcat
sets "webapp" as a value for this attibute, but because such directory does not
exits, the error message is written to the log. Virgo does not need "appBase"
attribute, because of this we can add appBase="" to the Host configuration in
tomcat-server.xml

Comment 2 Violeta Georgieva

2011-10-11 14:30:53 EDT

(In reply to comment #1)
> In tomcat-server.xml there was not Host's attibute "appBase". So Tomcat
> sets "webapp" as a value for this attibute, but because such directory does not
> exits, the error message is written to the log. Virgo does not need "appBase"
> attribute, because of this we can add appBase="" to the Host configuration in
> tomcat-server.xml

Correction to my previous comment. We have appBase="webapps" in tomcat-server.xml
In Virgo we do not need this attribute so we can set it like this appBase=""

Comment 3 Violeta Georgieva

2011-10-12 07:34:21 EDT

Change is tested, committed and pushed.
Commit IDs:
- org.eclipse.virgo.apps - 5764950d52e2fc556510e97c0e83bd4b8c661862 - change is in test's resources
- org.eclipse.virgo.web - cf8ce5dae8e0838b43e48c3e0fc24df8b102d842 - change is in test's resources
- org.eclipse.virgo.web-server - 1801e47ed31e10aef18ef7d8feeed6dac8e7b732 - change in the default tomcat-server.xml that is provided with Virgo Tomcat Server distribution

Comment 4 Glyn Normington

2011-10-12 09:28:40 EDT

Also changed in system verification tests a3dd9605b75c09967c6eb834106ac6bf8fb110d2.

Comment 5 Glyn Normington

2011-10-12 09:42:07 EDT

Another SVTs commit 4a2ef02cc06b8dff03a52656107f61fc4b3b8aa5 to make this configuration match that in use elsewhere.

Comment 6 Chris Frost

2012-05-28 09:45:04 EDT

This also needs to be fixed in the Snaps integration tests.

Comment 7 Glyn Normington

2012-09-10 06:51:05 EDT

(In reply to comment #6)
> This also needs to be fixed in the Snaps integration tests.

Fixed in snaps commit f89907b9058e5ad566e923a1e157ea81167a1b5e.