Not able to create a new domain through ant task

Question

Hi,
I have to upgrade weblogic 8.1 to weblogic 10.3 and I am using vanilla version of it. the first step to it is to create weblogic domain and then configure it and then start teh server and then deploy it. The problem starts when I am creating the domain, I am using ant task for domain creation and following these steps
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E12840_01/wls/docs103/programming/ant_tasks.html
when ant-task is trying to build the specified domain, it is looking for some config.xml and that config.xml should also generated by wlserver/ant task through a template. I have no idea, where and how to define that template.. hence getting following error.. tried hard but not able to get through. can anyone please help..
Thanks in Advance
Error stack trace:
[WLServer THS-SA-Admin] <Feb 16, 2009 1:49:27 PM IST> <Info> <Management> <BEA-1
40013> <C:\WIRES\Standalone\weblogic\domains\THSStandAlone\config\config.xml not
found>
[WLServer THS-SA-Admin] <Feb 16, 2009 1:49:27 PM IST> <Info> <Management> <BEA-1
41254> <Generating new domain directory in C:\WIRES\Standalone\weblogic\domains\
THSStandAlone>
[WLServer THS-SA-Admin] <Feb 16, 2009 1:49:28 PM IST> <Critical> <WebLogicServer
<BEA-000362> <Server failed. Reason:[WLServer THS-SA-Admin] There are 1 nested errors:
[WLServer THS-SA-Admin] weblogic.management.ManagementException: Failure during
domain creation
[WLServer THS-SA-Admin] at weblogic.management.internal.DomainDirectoryS
ervice.generateDomain(DomainDirectoryService.java:229)
[WLServer THS-SA-Admin] at weblogic.management.internal.DomainDirectoryS
ervice.ensureDomainExists(DomainDirectoryService.java:152)
[WLServer THS-SA-Admin] at weblogic.management.internal.DomainDirectoryS
ervice.start(DomainDirectoryService.java:72)
[WLServer THS-SA-Admin] at weblogic.t3.srvr.ServerServicesManager.startS
ervice(ServerServicesManager.java:459)
[WLServer THS-SA-Admin] at weblogic.t3.srvr.ServerServicesManager.startI
nStandbyState(ServerServicesManager.java:164)
[WLServer THS-SA-Admin] at weblogic.t3.srvr.T3Srvr.initializeStandby(T3S
rvr.java:711)
[WLServer THS-SA-Admin] at weblogic.t3.srvr.T3Srvr.startup(T3Srvr.java:4
82)
[WLServer THS-SA-Admin] at weblogic.t3.srvr.T3Srvr.run(T3Srvr.java:440)
[WLServer THS-SA-Admin] at weblogic.Server.main(Server.java:67)
[WLServer THS-SA-Admin] Caused by: com.bea.plateng.domain.script.ScriptException
: Template "null" does not exist. Line 1
[WLServer THS-SA-Admin] at com.bea.plateng.domain.script.ScriptParserCla
ssic$StateMachine.processRead(ScriptParserClassic.java:510)
[WLServer THS-SA-Admin] at com.bea.plateng.domain.script.ScriptParserCla
ssic$StateMachine.execute(ScriptParserClassic.java:428)
[WLServer THS-SA-Admin] at com.bea.plateng.domain.script.ScriptParserCla
ssic.parseAndRun(ScriptParserClassic.java:150)
[WLServer THS-SA-Admin] at com.bea.plateng.domain.script.ScriptParserCla
ssic.doExecute(ScriptParserClassic.java:112)
[WLServer THS-SA-Admin] at com.bea.plateng.domain.script.ScriptParser.ex
ecute(ScriptParser.java:73)
[WLServer THS-SA-Admin] at com.bea.plateng.domain.DomainInfoHelper.execu
teSilentScript(DomainInfoHelper.java:861)
[WLServer THS-SA-Admin] at com.bea.plateng.domain.DomainInfoHelper.creat
eDefaultDomain(DomainInfoHelper.java:1755)
[WLServer THS-SA-Admin] at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(
Native Method)
[WLServer THS-SA-Admin] at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(N
ativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
[WLServer THS-SA-Admin] at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invo
ke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
[WLServer THS-SA-Admin] at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:5
97)
[WLServer THS-SA-Admin] at weblogic.management.internal.DomainDirectoryS
ervice.generateDomain(DomainDirectoryService.java:224)
[WLServer THS-SA-Admin] ... 8 more
[WLServer THS-SA-Admin] >
[WLServer THS-SA-Admin] <Feb 16, 2009 1:49:28 PM IST> <Notice> <WebLogicServer>
<BEA-000365> <Server state changed to FAILED>
[WLServer THS-SA-Admin] <Feb 16, 2009 1:49:28 PM IST> <Error> <WebLogicServer> <
BEA-000383> <A critical service failed. The server will shut itself down>
[WLServer THS-SA-Admin] <Feb 16, 2009 1:49:28 PM IST> <Notice> <WebLogicServer>
<BEA-000365> <Server state changed to FORCE_SHUTTING_DOWN>
[WLServer THS-SA-Admin] Error in server execution (THS-SA-Admin)

Answer 1

Thanks for your reply.
I have seen sample xml and my target looks the same
<wlserver dir="${weblogic.domain.dir}"
                         port="${weblogic.domain.admin.server.port}"
                         servername="${weblogic.domain.admin.server.name}"
                         username="${weblogic.domain.admin.user}"
                         domainname="${weblogic.domain.name}"
                         password="${weblogic.domain.admin.password}"
                         configFile="config.xml"
                         generateConfig="true"
                         action="start"
                         beahome="${env.BEA_HOME}"/>
my requirement is to use ant task.. otherwise I am able to create through configuration wizard
Thanks