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grails app will not deploy on tomcat FAIL - Application could not be started

Answer 1

A:

Look in the Tomcat logs. If there was a problem deploying the war, there will usually be some log message describing the problem. I can't remember how the logs are organized in 5.5 (I'm using 6) but I think you should start with the one called catalina.out.

Mike Baranczak 2010-07-03 16:48:28

I looked in /usr/share/tomcat5.5/logs and there where not any log files at all.

mswallace 2010-07-03 19:09:45

Very strange. If Tomcat is running, then it should be producing some log output somewhere. Two possibilities that I can see: 1. you changed Tomcat's logging configuration (but if you did, you wouldn't be asking about it), or 2. you have more than one copy of Tomcat installed, and the one in /usr/share/tomcat5.5 is not the one that's running.

Mike Baranczak 2010-07-03 21:51:43

Answer 2

A:

check you configuration file to see where your log files are being written to. The error indicates there is a permission problem with your configuration. Your application is trying to create files that it does not have permission to create.

Aaron Saunders 2010-07-04 05:20:30

Answer 3

+2 A:

use the following snippet in grails-app/Config.groovy:

def catalinaBase = System.properties.getProperty('catalina.base')
if (!catalinaBase) catalinaBase = '.'   // just in case
def logDirectory = "${catalinaBase}/logs"

log4j = { root ->
    appenders {
        rollingFile name:'stdout', file:"${logDirectory}/${appName}.log".toString(),  maxFileSize:'100MB'
        rollingFile name:'stacktrace', file:"${logDirectory}/${appName}_stack.log".toString(), maxFileSize:'100MB'
     }

     error  'org.codehaus.groovy.grails.web.servlet',  //  controllers
            'org.codehaus.groovy.grails.web.pages', //  GSP
            'org.codehaus.groovy.grails.web.sitemesh', //  layouts
            'org.codehaus.groovy.grails.web.mapping.filter', // URL mapping
            'org.codehaus.groovy.grails.web.mapping', // URL mapping
            'org.codehaus.groovy.grails.commons', // core / classloading
            'org.codehaus.groovy.grails.plugins', // plugins
            'org.codehaus.groovy.grails.orm.hibernate', // hibernate integration
            'org.springframework',
            'org.hibernate'
     root.level = org.apache.log4j.Level.WARN
 }

Stefan 2010-07-04 07:59:56

This totally worked! Thanks so much

mswallace 2010-07-04 15:01:18

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