ColdFusion 8 as WAR on JBoss 4.2.3 WEB-INF/flex-config.xml error

Question

I have done this by the book multiple times and have also tried using someone else's WAR to deploy, but I keep getting the same error. I am running JBoss 4.2.3 and have tried this on multiple installations (of 4.2.3)

I have verified that the supposed missing file file exists.

1.) 19:19:15,853 INFO [ContextLoader] Root WebApplicationContext: initialization completed in 54014 ms 19:19:18,172 ERROR [STDERR] javax.servlet.ServletException: The configuration file cound not be found at /WEB-INF/cfform/flex-config.xml 19:19:18,174 ERROR [STDERR] at flex.server.j2ee.cache.CacheFilter.setupFlexService(CacheFilter.java:93)

This error results in failure of the WAR to deploy:

--- MBeans waiting for other MBeans --- ObjectName: jboss.web.deployment:war=cfusion.war,id=611163449 State: FAILED Reason: org.jboss.deployment.DeploymentException: URL file:/jee/workspace/tools/server/default/deploy/cfusion.war/ deployment failed

Any ideas?

Answer 1

I've seen this one a million times. It's usually when I forget a file in the WEB-INF of my war. Is flex-config.xml in your WEB-INF?

Answer 2

I have this same problem, did you ever find a fix?

Answer 3

I found a solution. It's insane, but it's worked twice now (on OS X, at least).

copy the WEB-INF directory to your file system root.

Ex: cp -R ./cfusion.war/WEB-INF /

start the instance. Everything works.

Delete the newly copied file system root /WEB-INF folder.

From now on, it will work. Crazy, but there you go.