Deploying WAR file on iPlanet Application Server 6.0 SP3 Test Drive edition on Windows 2000.
Thanks Han-Dat Luc for your replies. I did what you asked me to and here are
the results:
For problem 2 (see email below), I confirmed that the classpath is correct.
I got rid of the files that were causing the "incorrectly packaged" error,
so this time I did not get that error. However, I still got a warning
"NonIAS modules will be migrated to IAS. Please save archive.". I hit OK,
and proceeded to save the changed WAR file, and continued with the
depoyment. Note, I did not make any manual changes at all.
For problem 3, I got the successful deployment message:
10 kas> deployment action "J2EEInstallWar"
(c:/iplanet/ias6/JAR/WebMyApp.war) running.
10 kas> deployment action "J2EEInstallWar"
(c:/iplanet/ias6/JAR/WebMyApp.war) running.
webappreg -nodeprecated c:/iplanet/ias6/ias/JAR/WebMyApp.war 2>&1
10 Connected to LDAP server on g_sang port 389
10 The current input file= c:/iplanet/ias6/ias/JAR/WebMyApp.war
1o login page is being set to;
10 AppComponentDescriptor: com.netscape.server.deployment.WebAppDescriptor
10 All EnvEntries name:
10 All Ejb-refs:
10 All Resource-refs:
10 WebAppName is WebMyApp
20 kas> deployment action "J2EEInstallWar"
(c:/iplanet/ias6/JAR/WebMyApp.war) complete.
Finished deploying to g_sang at [20/Nov/2001 17:05:24]
Can you confirm if this is correct? However, when I try
http://localhost:81/NASApp/WebMyApp/AppName (I get Page Cannot be Displayed
Error) or http://localhost:81/NASApp/WebMyApp/servlet/AppName (I get the GX
Error (GX2GX) Error). Please note that the url pattern defined in web.xml is
<url-pattern>/AppName</url-pattern> for servlet AppName. The location of the
servlet AppName is in a subfolder called jsp under WebMyApp. Please let me
know what is wrong in here.
Thanks,
George
"Han-Dat Luc" <han-dat@sun.com> wrote in message
news:3BFB70C3.4F1EFFD7@sun.com...
> see answers inline
>
> George Sang wrote:
> >
> > Hi All:
> >
> > I will really appreciate your help in answering some of my questions. I
am
> > running iPlanet Application Server 6.0 SP3 Test Drive edition on Windows
> > 2000. I am using the iPlanet Web Server Enterprise Edition 6.0. I have
been
> > able to successfully run the Fortune and HelloWorld examples.
> >
> > 1) Can I deploy a WAR file instead of an EAR file? Is there any
> > documentation on deplying WAR files? Are the steps similar to deploying
an
> > EAR file?
>
> yes, you can definately deploy war files by themselves. It is known as a
> module so you would use deploymodule instead deployapp as the deployment
> option (if using command line)
>
> > 2) I tried deploying my WAR file and also a EAR file. On both occasions
I
> > got the messagen "The following entries are incorrectly packaged or have
> > external dependencies". What is this supposed to mean? I hit OK and
> > proceeded with the deployment, and then it told "NonIAS modules will be
> > migrated to IAS. Please ave archive.". Again, I hit OK, and proceeded to
> > save the changed WAR/EAR file, and then selected the target server and
began
> > the deployment. Is this normal?
> This mean you are trying to deploy a war/ear file not created for iAS.
> As per J2EE spec, an application server may have its own specific
> deployment descriptors in addition to the required ones. iAS needs its
> own specific descriptors. That's why you get the NoniAS modules warning.
> The deployment tool will try to generate those descriptors for you, but
> you may need to manually fix a few entries afterwards depending on how
> your existing file was packaged.
> For the first message, it means that you are using other non default
> packages in your war/module which the deployment tool cannot find
> because you did not add them to your module. If they are in the iAS
> classpath, you can ignore the warning, however, it is very likely, that
> the libraries that are referenced by your war/ear files are not in the
> iAS classpath.
>
> > 3) The noticeable part is that when I deploy WAR/EAR files, in the
Deploy
> > Tab Message window I do get the "Finished deploying to MACHINE_NAME at
....."
> > message with a Success indicator. However, what is missing here is the
> > details I got when I deployed Fortune or HelloWorld examples. I do not
get
> > the following messages in the Deploy Tab Message window:
> >"j2eeappreg -nodeprecated ....."
> >"10 Connected to LDAP server on...."
> >"10 login page is being set to : "
> >"10 Register Web Module:...."
> >"WebApName is ...."
> >"10 j2eeappreg done."
> > Why are these messages missing for my application? Doesn't this clearly
> > indicate that no web module is being created? Then how do I access the
> > application from the browser?
> Check your descriptor files. There may be entries missing. I suggest you
> compare them to the descriptors that the sample apps have.
>
> If I do try
> > http://localhost:81/module_name/servlet_name, I get a GX Error (GX2GX)
> > error.
> > 4) Does the Web Server plugin have to be changed? Where is the context
root
> > to be mentioned?
> You need /NASApp, ie http://localhost:81/NASApp/context/servlet_name
> By default the name of your war/ear is your context root.
>
>
> >
> > Thanks,
> > George
>
> --
> Han-Dat Luc (hdl@sun.com)
> Senior Consultant
> SUN Professional Services (iPlanet)
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