cant deploy my application,please help

[Khalid Al-Foaim]

hey guys
I have developed a web application by netbeans and when I run it it runs perfectly on the local netbeans glassfish server
but the problem is I could not deploy it on my web server
1st try:
I built it and uploaded the war file "HW6_Build3.war and went to tomcat admin page tried to make a new context and I got a message that the document base doesn`t exist or is not a readable directory
2nd try:
I tried unpacking the war file myself and copying it to the webapps folder but when I try to access the main page I get a 404
3rd try:
I copied the war file to the webapps folder and made a HW6_Build3.xml file ,that didn`t work either.

You might need these:
content of:
1-web.xml

  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app version="2.5" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd">
    <context-param>
        <param-name>javax.faces.STATE_SAVING_METHOD</param-name>
        <param-value>client</param-value>
    </context-param>
    <context-param>
        <param-name>com.sun.faces.validateXml</param-name>
        <param-value>true</param-value>
    </context-param>
    <context-param>
        <param-name>com.sun.faces.verifyObjects</param-name>
        <param-value>false</param-value>
    </context-param>
    <filter>
        <filter-name>UploadFilter</filter-name>
        <filter-class>com.sun.webui.jsf.util.UploadFilter</filter-class>
        <init-param>
            <description>The maximum allowed upload size in bytes.  If this is set to a negative value, there is no maximum.  The default value is 1000000.</description>
            <param-name>maxSize</param-name>
            <param-value>1000000</param-value>
        </init-param>
        <init-param>
            <description>The size (in bytes) of an uploaded file which, if it is exceeded, will cause the file to be written directly to disk instead of stored in memory.  Files smaller than or equal to this size will be stored in memory.  The default value is 4096.</description>
            <param-name>sizeThreshold</param-name>
            <param-value>4096</param-value>
        </init-param>
    </filter>
    <filter-mapping>
        <filter-name>UploadFilter</filter-name>
        <servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
    </filter-mapping>
    <servlet>
        <servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
        <servlet-class>javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet</servlet-class>
        <init-param>
            <param-name>javax.faces.LIFECYCLE_ID</param-name>
            <param-value>com.sun.faces.lifecycle.PARTIAL</param-value>
        </init-param>
        <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
    </servlet>
    <servlet>
        <servlet-name>ExceptionHandlerServlet</servlet-name>
        <servlet-class>com.sun.errorhandler.ExceptionHandler</servlet-class>
        <init-param>
            <param-name>errorHost</param-name>
            <param-value>localhost</param-value>
        </init-param>
        <init-param>
            <param-name>errorPort</param-name>
            <param-value>24444</param-value>
        </init-param>
    </servlet>
    <servlet>
        <servlet-name>ThemeServlet</servlet-name>
        <servlet-class>com.sun.webui.theme.ThemeServlet</servlet-class>
    </servlet>
    <servlet>
        <servlet-name>activate</servlet-name>
        <servlet-class>hw6_build3.activate</servlet-class>
    </servlet>
    <servlet>
        <servlet-name>view</servlet-name>
        <servlet-class>hw6_build3.view</servlet-class>
    </servlet>
    <servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
        <url-pattern>/faces/*</url-pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>ExceptionHandlerServlet</servlet-name>
        <url-pattern>/error/ExceptionHandler</url-pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>ThemeServlet</servlet-name>
        <url-pattern>/theme/*</url-pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>activate</servlet-name>
        <url-pattern>/activate</url-pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>view</servlet-name>
        <url-pattern>/view</url-pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>
    <session-config>
        <session-timeout>
            30
        </session-timeout>
    </session-config>
    <welcome-file-list>
        <welcome-file>faces/Home.jsp</welcome-file>
        
        </welcome-file-list>
    <error-page>
        <exception-type>javax.servlet.ServletException</exception-type>
        <location>/error/ExceptionHandler</location>
    </error-page>
    <error-page>
        <exception-type>java.io.IOException</exception-type>
        <location>/error/ExceptionHandler</location>
    </error-page>
    <error-page>
        <exception-type>javax.faces.FacesException</exception-type>
        <location>/error/ExceptionHandler</location>
    </error-page>
    <error-page>
        <exception-type>com.sun.rave.web.ui.appbase.ApplicationException</exception-type>
        <location>/error/ExceptionHandler</location>
    </error-page>
    <jsp-config>
        <jsp-property-group>
            <url-pattern>*.jspf</url-pattern>
            <is-xml>true</is-xml>
        </jsp-property-group>
        </jsp-config>
    </web-app>
  

2-faces-config.xml

  <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>

<!-- =========== FULL CONFIGURATION FILE ================================== -->

<faces-config version="1.2" 
    xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" 
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" 
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-facesconfig_1_2.xsd">
    <managed-bean>
        <managed-bean-name>SessionBean1</managed-bean-name>
        <managed-bean-class>hw6_build3.SessionBean1</managed-bean-class>
        <managed-bean-scope>session</managed-bean-scope>
    </managed-bean>
    <managed-bean>
        <managed-bean-name>Home</managed-bean-name>
        <managed-bean-class>hw6_build3.Home</managed-bean-class>
        <managed-bean-scope>request</managed-bean-scope>
    </managed-bean>
    <managed-bean>
        <managed-bean-name>ApplicationBean1</managed-bean-name>
        <managed-bean-class>hw6_build3.ApplicationBean1</managed-bean-class>
        <managed-bean-scope>application</managed-bean-scope>
    </managed-bean>
    <managed-bean>
        <managed-bean-name>RequestBean1</managed-bean-name>
        <managed-bean-class>hw6_build3.RequestBean1</managed-bean-class>
        <managed-bean-scope>request</managed-bean-scope>
    </managed-bean>
    <managed-bean>
        <managed-bean-name>Register</managed-bean-name>
        <managed-bean-class>hw6_build3.Register</managed-bean-class>
        <managed-bean-scope>request</managed-bean-scope>
    </managed-bean>
    <navigation-rule>
        <from-view-id>/Home.jsp</from-view-id>
        <navigation-case>
            <from-outcome>case1</from-outcome>
            <to-view-id>/Register.jsp</to-view-id>
        </navigation-case>
        <navigation-case>
            <from-outcome>goToMain</from-outcome>
            <to-view-id>/Main.jsp</to-view-id>
        </navigation-case>
        <navigation-case>
            <from-outcome>case2</from-outcome>
            <to-view-id>/Home.jsp</to-view-id>
        </navigation-case>
    </navigation-rule>
    <managed-bean>
        <managed-bean-name>Main</managed-bean-name>
        <managed-bean-class>hw6_build3.Main</managed-bean-class>
        <managed-bean-scope>request</managed-bean-scope>
    </managed-bean>
    <navigation-rule>
        <from-view-id>/Main.jsp</from-view-id>
        <navigation-case>
            <from-outcome>case1</from-outcome>
            <to-view-id>/Home.jsp</to-view-id>
        </navigation-case>

    </navigation-rule>
    <navigation-rule>
        <from-view-id>/Register.jsp</from-view-id>
        <navigation-case>
            <from-outcome>case1</from-outcome>
            <to-view-id>/Main.jsp</to-view-id>
        </navigation-case>
    </navigation-rule>
</faces-config>

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE sun-web-app PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Application Server 9.0 Servlet 2.5//EN" "http://www.sun.com/software/appserver/dtds/sun-web-app_2_5-0.dtd">
<sun-web-app error-url="">
  <context-root>/HW6_Build3</context-root>
  <class-loader delegate="true"/>
  <jsp-config>
    <property name="keepgenerated" value="true">
      <description>Keep a copy of the generated servlet class' java code.</description>
    </property>
  </jsp-config>
</sun-web-app>

What is wrong? , please help me the home work is due in two days and I am a good java programer but the stupidest man in the deployment stuff

One final thing:
I have deployed other applications before and they run perfectly but there is a difference which is they are only a couple of servlets but this one has some visual jsp pages that I made
by the visual jsp plug in for netbeans

Thank you

[Tim Holloway]

1st try:
I built it and uploaded the war file "HW6_Build3.war and went to tomcat admin page tried to make a new context and I got a message that the document base doesn`t exist or is not a readable directory
2nd try:
I tried unpacking the war file myself and copying it to the webapps folder but when I try to access the main page I get a 404
3rd try:
I copied the war file to the webapps folder and made a HW6_Build3.xml file ,that didn`t work either.

Make sure there aren't any errors in the log file (catalina.out).

I'm not sure how you uploaded, but if you use the installer in the Tomcat admin webapp, you can select and upload a WAR and supply a context name at the same time. They don't mention, however, that you need a "/" in the front of the context name.

If you install directly into TOMCAT_HOME/webapps (unpacked or otherwise), the context name will default to the name of the file/directory that you installed. In the case of an unexploded WAR, that excludes the ".war" part. It's case-sensitive, by the way.

You didn't include the HW6_Build3.xml file, so I don't know if it was defective. You should have installed it in TOMCAT_HOME/conf/Catalina/localhost/.

But mostly you need to check the Tomcat logs. If the WAR itself is defective, it won't deploy. You don't get "half a WAR".

[Khalid Al-Foaim]

Thanks for the reply tim
anyway I have solved my problem by installing glass fish on my server
I dont know why Tomcat didn`t deploy my application
Thank you