Oh, you mean that you have a PACKED WAR, such that it is not extracted. Yep, that would probably blow up because 'getRealPath' is almost guaranteed to return null in such a case.
-Nathan -----Original Message----- From: mclovis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 04, 2008 12:50 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: Roller as unPacked war Dave and Nathan, I think I am not making myself clear. Under Tomcat's Host container the attribute unPackWars is equal to false. This is the manner my ISP mandates wars be deployed. At this point roller will not deploy properly or so it seems. Does this now make sense? Nathan Beyer (Cerner) wrote: > > I run roller unpacked via an Eclipse project using WST and deployed to > Tomcat all the time. > > -----Original Message----- > From: mclovis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, August 04, 2008 11:17 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: Roller as unPacked war > > > Nathan, > This is in org.apache.roller.weblogger.ui.core > RollerContext > > That was my original point. > if you change the code to check for a null reference (because this class > is > seemingly trying to anticipate roller properties), it then does not bomb > and > you can use the roller-custom.properties to set values OUTSIDE of the war. > However Dave has noted that he has ran roller as an UNPACKED war with no > code changes and no difficulties. So I am a little baffled. I am not a > developer on roller and therefore am not familiar with all the code base. > > > > Nathan Beyer (Cerner) wrote: >> >> Where is this at in the codebase? Without knowing much of the context, >> that's not the best way to determine the 'context path', as it is >> possible >> for null be returned, though according to the javadoc, that generally >> only >> happens when the WAR isn't unpacked [1]. If you want the 'context path', >> generally you use 'getContextPath' [2], but I don't know exactly what >> this >> code is attempting to do. As I understand 'getRealPath', the intent is to >> get a OS-specific/filesystem-specific path to a resource, which is why >> the >> code below uses 'File.separator'. For example, you might pass >> "WEB-INF/web.xml" and it would return >> "/opt/tomcat/webapps/myapp/WEB-INF/web.xml" on a linux deploy. >> >> -Nathan >> >> [1] >> http://java.sun.com/javaee/5/docs/api/javax/servlet/ServletContext.html#getRealPath(java.lang.String) >> [2] >> http://java.sun.com/javaee/5/docs/api/javax/servlet/ServletContext.html#getContextPath() >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: mclovis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Monday, August 04, 2008 10:40 AM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: Roller as unPacked war >> >> >> Dave, >> RollerContext without being modified looks like the following >> >> >> >> // get the *real* path to <context>/resources >> String ctxPath= servletContext.getRealPath("/"); >> //log.info(ctxPath); >> if(!ctxPath.endsWith(File.separator)) >> ctxPath += File.separator + "resources"; >> else >> ctxPath += "resources"; >> >> And ctxPath in an unPacked War returns null and the String test .endsWith >> results in an NullPointerException. This can be found in catalina.out >> when >> ran with Tomcat. It will not run properly for me then. Am I missing >> something? >> >> >> >> >> >> Dave Johnson-8 wrote: >>> >>> On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 9:51 AM, mclovis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> >>>> Does anyone know has any thought been given to running roller as an >>>> unPacked >>>> war. If you changed the code in RollerContext as follows: >>>> >>>> String ctxPath =""; >>>> >>>> // get the *real* path to <context>/resources >>>> ctxPath= servletContext.getRealPath("/"); >>>> >>>> It will allow it to run until other issues arise. >>>> >>>> I need to see if this option has been explored before. >>> >>> I'm able to run Roller as a WAR or as an unpacked WAR without any code >>> changes. >>> >>> Perhaps you are running into some other problem? >>> >>> - Dave >>> >>> >> >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://www.nabble.com/Roller-as-unPacked-war-tp18811688s12275p18813719.html >> Sent from the Roller - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE This message and any included attachments are from >> Cerner Corporation and are intended only for the addressee. 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