Suffering great frustration deploying Cocoon 2.2 to Tomcat. Reverted to the tutorial to check the basics. Hope following notes will help someone else avoid pain.
Robin - SUMMARY ------------------- A. Tutorial page 1. Welcome page has a link to spring bean which fails if called from http://localhost:8888/myBlock1 but succeeds when called from http://localhost:8888/myBlock1/ Link is not properly fixed up. See #2 below. B. Tutorial page 4. Parent POM fails to compile myCocoonWebapp. Cannot find correct version of maven-war-plugin. Solutions found on mailing list do not work. See #5 below. C. <servlet:context/@mount-path="" ...> is not sufficient to mount the web app as ROOT in Tomcat. The war file must be ROOT.war (or the app must be deployed with a context fragment from elsewhere in the file system). See #7 below. D. <finalName>ROOT</finalName> is not sufficient to mount the web app as ROOT in Jetty. Change <webAppSourceDirectory/>. See #9 below. E. Tomcat does not unpack ROOT.war if there is a context fragment ROOT.xml. Check and remove the conflicting file. See #10 below. F. <finalName>ROOT</finalName> is not sufficient to deploy the web app as ROOT in Tomcat with tomcat-maven-plugin. Add context path. See #12 below. - START ---------------------- 1. Create new tutorial blocks {...}/myBlock1 {...}/myBlock2 from http://cocoon.apache.org/2.2/1159_1_1.html http://cocoon.apache.org/2.2/1290_1_1.html http://cocoon.apache.org/2.2/1291_1_1.html 2. Run under Jetty + rcl cd {...}/myBlock1 mvn compile jetty:run browse to http://localhost:8888/myBlock1/ works fine <--- OK But note that http://localhost:8888/myBlock1 works OK (without trailing slash) but then the link to the Spring bean fails http://localhost:8888/spring-bean <--- FAIL instead of http://localhost:8888/myBlock1/spring-bean This is not good on page one of the tutorial. 3. Add webapp block and parent POM {...}/myCocoonWebApp {...}/pom.xml from http://cocoon.apache.org/2.2/1362_1_1.html 4. Run under Jetty + war file cd {...}/myBlock1 mvn install cd {...}/myBlock2 mvn install cd {...}/myCocoonWebApp mvn package jetty:run browse to http://localhost:8888/ works fine <--- OK 5. Reactor build from parent POM cd {...} mvn install Build fails with <-- FAIL Internal error in the plugin manager executing goal 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-war-plugin:2.0.2:war': Unable to find the mojo 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-war-plugin:2.0.2:war' in the plugin 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-war-plugin' Component descriptor cannot be found in the component repository: org.apache.maven.plugin.Mojoorg.apache.maven.plugins:maven-war-plugin:2.0.2: war. This has been an unsolved problem since I first tested Cocoon 2.2. There are two issues here: i. The tutorial fails [on my machine] despite the standardisation offered by Maven. ii. The requested plugin is not found in the (any?) repository. 6. There two solutions at http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COCOON-2240 Neither one works. The second solution changes the version number in the above message from 2.0.2 to 2.1-beta-1. 7. Work around. Go back to 4 above and copy myCocoonWebApp-1.0.0.war to {tomcat 5.5.20}/webapps. Browse to http://localhost:8080/ <-- FAIL Get error 404 from Tomcat. But browse to http://localhost:8080/myCocoonWebApp-1.0.0/ and it finds the page. Tomcat ignores the servlet:context/@mount-path="" attribute in block-servlet-service.xml 8. Rename the WAR file ROOT.xml by setting <finalName>ROOT</finalName> in the POM for myCocoonWebApp. See http://mojo.codehaus.org/tomcat-maven-plugin/usage.html 9. Test with cd {...}/myCocoonWebApp mvn clean install jetty:run This fails with <-- FAIL Webapp source directory {...}\myCocoonWebApp\target\myCocoonWebApp-1.0.0 does not exist Maven has built a ROOT directory and ROOT.war but installed myCocoonWebApp-1.0.0.war in the repository (which could be OK). Jetty has not recognized the <finalName/>. Fix this by changing maven-jetty-plugin in {...}/myCocoonWebApp/pom.xml under <build> <plugins> <plugin> <groupId>org.mortbay.jetty</groupId> <artifactId>maven-jetty-plugin</artifactId> <version>6.1.7</version> <configuration> change <webAppSourceDirectory>${project.build.directory}/${pom.artifactId}-${pom.ve rsion}</webAppSourceDirectory> to <webAppSourceDirectory>${project.build.directory}/ROOT</webAppSourceDirector y> Browse to http://localhost:8080/ <-- OK 10. Test by copying ROOT.war to {tomcat 5.5.20}/webapps. Browse to http://localhost:8080/ <-- FAIL and Tomcat has not unpacked ROOT.war, though it unpacked the other (see #7, above). Restart Tomcat. No mention of ROOT.war in {tomcat 5.5.20}/logs. Check {tomcat 5.5.20}/conf/{engineName}/{hostName} for ROOT.xml. Remove it. Tomcat unpacks ROOT.war. Browse to http://localhost:8080/ <-- SUCCESS 11. OK, now remove ROOT.war and ROOT subdirectory from {tomcat 5.5.20}/webapps. Log in to the Tomcat manager http://localhost:8080/manager/html Deploy {...}\myCocoonWebApp\target\ROOT.war Browse to http://localhost:8080/ <-- OK 12. Again, remove ROOT.war and ROOT subdirectory from {tomcat 5.5.20}/webapps. Add in {...}/myCocoonWebApp/pom.xml under <build> <plugins> a new plugin <plugin> <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId> <artifactId>tomcat-maven-plugin</artifactId> <version>1.0-beta-1</version> <configuration> <url>http://localhost:8080/manager</url> <server>tomcat-local</server> </configuration> </plugin> Set up the server tomcat-local in your Maven settings file {userHome}/.m2/settings.xml under <settings> <servers> a new server <server> <id>tomcat-local</id> <username>uname</username> <password>pwd</password> </server> All as given at http://mojo.codehaus.org/tomcat-maven-plugin/usage.html Deploy with cd {...}/myCocoonWebApp mvn tomcat:deploy Browse to http://localhost:8080/ <-- FAIL The plugin has ignored <finalName/>. Maven has again built a ROOT directory and ROOT.war but installed myCocoonWebApp.war which works fine but is not required. Browse to http://localhost:8080/myCocoonWebApp/ <-- OK but not useful Add the context path <server> <id>tomcat-local</id> <username>uname</username> <password>pwd</password> <path>/ROOT</path> </server> Redeploy with mvn tomcat:redeploy Browse to http://localhost:8080/ <-- QED - END ----------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@cocoon.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@cocoon.apache.org
