WL 7.0 and Web Application Deployment - HELP

Question

I've got a problem with WL 7.0 on Windows 2000.
I messed up a Web Applications deployment. I was having problem with
an example of an application I installed. Someone suggested I do the
following:
Shut down WL
cd c:\bea\user_projects\AppDomain
mv BuyServer BuyServer-ORIG <<< BuyServer is the name of the WL
domain server this web app is deployed to
Restart everything
They said this would undeploy the web app. Yeah, right ....
Well, the web app still showed up. So being a dork I tried to
Undeploy it even though the BuyServer directory wasn't there anymore.
This obviously didn't work.
So I did a fresh deployement of the web app. This actually worked. A
new BuyServer directory was created by WL. BUT in the Deployment
Activities screen for the web app, there is a Activity I can't get rid
of. The first listed activity is the deployment activitiy with a
status of COMPLETED.
The second listed activity says:
Activity: Activate application buy on
BuyServer Running
Status: RUNNING
Begin/End times are blank
And there is a CANCEL button on the far right. I'm pretty sure this
is the attempted undeploy I mentioned above. Pressing this button
doesn't do anything. I can repeated undeploy and redeploy this web
app but that second activity keeps coming back.
Where does WL keep these Deployment activities stored ? Its putting
them somewhere in storage. Is there anyway I can delete this failed
activity ?
Any thoughts appreciated.

Answer 1

I am sure you "sovled" the problem by now but...
Sean O'Neill <[email protected]>
wrote:
I've got a problem with WL 7.0 on Windows 2000.
I messed up a Web Applications deployment. I was having problem with
an example of an application I installed. Someone suggested I do the
following:
Shut down WL
cd c:\bea\user_projects\AppDomain
mv BuyServer BuyServer-ORIG <<< BuyServer is the name of the WL
domain server this web app is deployed to
Restart everythingAll this does is move the domain directory to a new one, it doesn't take care
of the application.
They said this would undeploy the web app. Yeah, right ....Sorry someoned fed you the wrong info. Buyer beware. ;)
So when you "deploy" an applicaiton, it goes into config.xml
$DOMAIN_NAME/config.xml
It looks something like:
<Application Name="mywebapp"
Path="E:\weblogic\dev\sandbox\griffith\apps\output" TwoPhase="true">
<WebAppComponent Name="mywebapp" Targets="myserver" URI="mywebapp.war"/>
</Application>
You should be able to "undeploy" this thing in 3 ways.
1) by starting the server and "deleteing" it with the little trash can icon in
the Application/module list.
2) don't start your server, and removed the <Application tag
3) start server and run weblogic.Deployer
java weblogic.Deployer -name mywebapp -remove
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Well, the web app still showed up. So being a dork I tried to
Undeploy it even though the BuyServer directory wasn't there anymore.
This obviously didn't work.Nope.
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So I did a fresh deployement of the web app. This actually worked.
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new BuyServer directory was created by WL. I dont follow how doing a deployment creates BuyServer, I thought that was the
name of your domain, is that also the name of your webapp?
BUT in the Deployment
Activities screen for the web app, there is a Activity I can't get rid
of. The first listed activity is the deployment activitiy with a
status of COMPLETED.
The second listed activity says:
Activity: Activate application buy on
BuyServer Running
Status: RUNNING
Begin/End times are blank
And there is a CANCEL button on the far right. I'm pretty sure this
is the attempted undeploy I mentioned above. Pressing this button
doesn't do anything. I can repeated undeploy and redeploy this web
app but that second activity keeps coming back.Sorry sounds like you have hit a bug. :(
Deploy from the command line.
java weblogic.Deployer <url/user/pass> -name mywebapp -source PATH_TO_EXPLODED_DIR_OR_EAR_OR_WAR_FILE
-activate
If it fails to return, then post the server's log file.
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Where does WL keep these Deployment activities stored ? Its putting
them somewhere in storage. They are only in memory for duration of server run, if you restart they go away.
Is there anyway I can delete this failed
activity ?
Any thoughts appreciated.Cheers
mbg
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