WAR Deployment Problem (WEB-INF/web.xml not found)

Question

          I have a war application and WebLogic 5.1 with Svr Pack 8 failed to deploy it
          when it start up. Here is what I did,
          1. I jared all necessary files including WEB-INF\web.xml in the myapp.war file;
          here I used all uppercase for WEB-INF directory, but after I jared it, it shew
          up web-inf\web.xml but WEB-INF\lib\pushlet.jar in the myapp.war file. I think
          this is the behavior of jar program.
          2. I appended the myapp.war to the weblogicclasspath in the start script;
          3. In weblogic.properties file, I specified two lines:
          weblogic.httpd.webApp.myapp=c:/weblogic/default/myapp.war
          weblogic.httpd.defaultWebApp=myapp
          4. Then I start up the WebLogic server named "default". It shew the following
          error messages:
          java.io.FileNotFoundException: Directory myapp\ does not contain WEB-INF/web.x
          ml
          at weblogic.servlet.internal.dd.DescriptorLoader.<init>(DescriptorLoader
          .java:177)
          at weblogic.t3.srvr.HttpServer.loadWARContext(HttpServer.java:630)
          at weblogic.t3.srvr.HttpServer.initServletContexts(HttpServer.java:558)
          at weblogic.t3.srvr.HttpServer.start(HttpServer.java:418)
          at weblogic.t3.srvr.T3Srvr.start(T3Srvr.java:1312)
          at weblogic.t3.srvr.T3Srvr.main(T3Srvr.java:827)
          at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
          at weblogic.Server.startServerDynamically(Server.java:99)
          at weblogic.Server.main(Server.java:65)
          at weblogic.Server.main(Server.java:55)
          Thu Mar 29 17:24:16 EST 2001:<E> <HTTP> FATAL: could not load WAR 'myapp' as d
          efault servlet context
          java.lang.NullPointerException
          at weblogic.t3.srvr.HttpServer.initServletContexts(HttpServer.java:560)
          at weblogic.t3.srvr.HttpServer.start(HttpServer.java:418)
          at weblogic.t3.srvr.T3Srvr.start(T3Srvr.java:1312)
          at weblogic.t3.srvr.T3Srvr.main(T3Srvr.java:827)
          at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
          at weblogic.Server.startServerDynamically(Server.java:99)
          at weblogic.Server.main(Server.java:65)
          at weblogic.Server.main(Server.java:55)
          Thu Mar 29 17:24:17 EST 2001:<E> <HTTP> Could not find Web application 'c:/weblo
          gic/default/myapp.war'
          java.io.FileNotFoundException: WEB-INF/web.xml XML file not found in jar file
          at weblogic.xml.dom.DOMParser.getDocument(DOMParser.java:93)
          at weblogic.servlet.internal.dd.DescriptorLoader.<init>(DescriptorLoader
          .java:134)
          at weblogic.t3.srvr.HttpServer.loadWARContext(HttpServer.java:627)
          at weblogic.t3.srvr.HttpServer.initServletContexts(HttpServer.java:602)
          at weblogic.t3.srvr.HttpServer.initServletContexts(HttpServer.java:570)
          at weblogic.t3.srvr.HttpServer.start(HttpServer.java:418)
          at weblogic.t3.srvr.T3Srvr.start(T3Srvr.java:1312)
          at weblogic.t3.srvr.T3Srvr.main(T3Srvr.java:827)
          at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
          at weblogic.Server.startServerDynamically(Server.java:99)
          at weblogic.Server.main(Server.java:65)
          at weblogic.Server.main(Server.java:55)
          Please help me find out what is wrong with this. Greatly Appreciated.
          Thanks in advance,
          Donald
          

Answer 1

          If it is still not working, try to set the weblogic.httpd.documentRoot =c:/weblogic/default
          in the weblogic.properties & try.
          "Donald Ye" <[email protected]> wrote:
          >
          >
          >I have a war application and WebLogic 5.1 with Svr Pack 8 failed to deploy
          >it
          >when it start up. Here is what I did,
          >
          >1. I jared all necessary files including WEB-INF\web.xml in the myapp.war
          >file;
          >here I used all uppercase for WEB-INF directory, but after I jared it,
          >it shew
          >up web-inf\web.xml but WEB-INF\lib\pushlet.jar in the myapp.war file.
          >I think
          >this is the behavior of jar program.
          >
          >2. I appended the myapp.war to the weblogicclasspath in the start script;
          >
          >3. In weblogic.properties file, I specified two lines:
          >weblogic.httpd.webApp.myapp=c:/weblogic/default/myapp.war
          >weblogic.httpd.defaultWebApp=myapp
          >
          >4. Then I start up the WebLogic server named "default". It shew the following
          >error messages:
          >
          >java.io.FileNotFoundException: Directory myapp\ does not contain WEB-INF/web.x
          >ml
          > at weblogic.servlet.internal.dd.DescriptorLoader.<init>(DescriptorLoader
          >.java:177)
          > at weblogic.t3.srvr.HttpServer.loadWARContext(HttpServer.java:630)
          > at weblogic.t3.srvr.HttpServer.initServletContexts(HttpServer.java:558)
          > at weblogic.t3.srvr.HttpServer.start(HttpServer.java:418)
          > at weblogic.t3.srvr.T3Srvr.start(T3Srvr.java:1312)
          > at weblogic.t3.srvr.T3Srvr.main(T3Srvr.java:827)
          > at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
          > at weblogic.Server.startServerDynamically(Server.java:99)
          > at weblogic.Server.main(Server.java:65)
          > at weblogic.Server.main(Server.java:55)
          >
          >Thu Mar 29 17:24:16 EST 2001:<E> <HTTP> FATAL: could not load WAR 'myapp'
          >as d
          >efault servlet context
          >java.lang.NullPointerException
          > at weblogic.t3.srvr.HttpServer.initServletContexts(HttpServer.java:560)
          > at weblogic.t3.srvr.HttpServer.start(HttpServer.java:418)
          > at weblogic.t3.srvr.T3Srvr.start(T3Srvr.java:1312)
          > at weblogic.t3.srvr.T3Srvr.main(T3Srvr.java:827)
          > at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
          > at weblogic.Server.startServerDynamically(Server.java:99)
          > at weblogic.Server.main(Server.java:65)
          > at weblogic.Server.main(Server.java:55)
          >
          >Thu Mar 29 17:24:17 EST 2001:<E> <HTTP> Could not find Web application
          >'c:/weblo
          >gic/default/myapp.war'
          >java.io.FileNotFoundException: WEB-INF/web.xml XML file not found in
          >jar file
          > at weblogic.xml.dom.DOMParser.getDocument(DOMParser.java:93)
          > at weblogic.servlet.internal.dd.DescriptorLoader.<init>(DescriptorLoader
          >.java:134)
          > at weblogic.t3.srvr.HttpServer.loadWARContext(HttpServer.java:627)
          > at weblogic.t3.srvr.HttpServer.initServletContexts(HttpServer.java:602)
          > at weblogic.t3.srvr.HttpServer.initServletContexts(HttpServer.java:570)
          > at weblogic.t3.srvr.HttpServer.start(HttpServer.java:418)
          > at weblogic.t3.srvr.T3Srvr.start(T3Srvr.java:1312)
          > at weblogic.t3.srvr.T3Srvr.main(T3Srvr.java:827)
          > at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
          > at weblogic.Server.startServerDynamically(Server.java:99)
          > at weblogic.Server.main(Server.java:65)
          > at weblogic.Server.main(Server.java:55)
          >
          >
          >Please help me find out what is wrong with this. Greatly Appreciated.
          >
          >Thanks in advance,
          >
          >Donald