On 14/03/2012 22:25, Dave Shevett wrote: >> From: Pid <p...@pidster.com> >> Exactly which OS, Java & Tomcat versions are you using? > > This is an AWS micro instance running some variant of CentOS > Tomcat 6.0.33 > [ec2-user@app01 tomcat6]$ java -version > java version "1.6.0_22" > OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea6 1.10.6) > (amazon-52.1.10.6.41.amzn1-x86_64) > OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 20.0-b11, mixed mode) > >>> <Context path="/" docBase="/var/wars/application.war" /> >> >> path="" would be correct if it was valid here, which it is not - it is >> redundant because the path is derived from the Context definition file >> name 'ROOT.xml'. > > Fair enough - I removed the path= entry from the ROOT.xml. > >>> I'm assuming when I hit vhost.REDACTED.com, I should see a deployed >>> version of the application.war, right? Or am I doing something >>> blatantly stupidly wrong here? >> >> What _do_ you see? > > Right now I'm getting 404's on the root. > > sloop:~ shevett$ curl -I http://REDACTED.com/ > HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found > Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 22:16:30 GMT > Content-Type: text/html;charset=utf-8 > Content-Length: 952 > Connection: close
What is serving that error? Tomcat & HTTPD error pages look different. >> Are there any relevant messages in the Tomcat logs? > > Just that the app was in fact unpacked into the work directory (and I > can see it there), and it looked like it tried to start (there's a stack > trace, but that's application specific - it definitely tried to start, I > just don't know where it is) If it didn't start, that would explain why you can't get it to respond. What is the stacktrace? p >> How have you defined the Hosts in server.xml? > > Umm, to be honest initially I hadn't. :( I was trying to come up with a > way to get 'dynamic' vhost allocation - kick a ROOT.xml and directory > structure into place, restart / hup, and the vhost goes live. That > doesn't look possible (as it appears I need Host entries in server.xml > to do this, which is hard to dynamically edit). > > Anyway, I created a new Host entry, and added a Valve for logging: > > <Host name="REDACTED.com" appBase="REDACTED.com" unpackWARs="false" > autoDeploy="true"> > <Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve" > directory="logs" prefix="REDACTED_access_log." suffix=".txt" > pattern="common" resolveHosts="false"/> > </Host> > > When I hit the host, the vhost is obviously getting handled, as I'm now > getting traffic into the REDACTED_access.log, but it's not actually > triggering the app: > > [ec2-user@app01 tomcat6]$ cat REDACTED_access_log.2012-03-14.txt > 96.39.62.78 - - [14/Mar/2012:21:58:01 +0000] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 404 952 > 96.39.62.78 - - [14/Mar/2012:21:58:01 +0000] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" > 404 952 > > Hope that's enough information! -- [key:62590808]
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