On 08 Jul 2023, at 10:08, Graham Leggett <minf...@sharp.fm.INVALID> wrote:
> Another data point - when starting the application up under tomcat9 in
> eclipse, there is also no mention in the logs of the web application having
> been deployed, however I am able to hit the application with curl and receive
> a sensible result. The application has been silently started.
>
> On the target machine, we get no log line same as under eclipse, and no
> application (404 Not Found). The application might have been silently started
> at a different URL and with no log line we’ll never know, or it silently
> failed to start and with no error we’ll never know.
Having switched from declaring a context in server.xml to Catalina/localhost we
now get the startup line - it seems that applications defined in server.xml are
silently deployed, but the behaviour hasn’t changed, we still get 404 on the
application.
08-Jul-2023 11:59:59.016 INFO [main]
org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptor Deployment of
deployment descriptor
[/var/lib/tomcats/xxx-service-test/conf/Catalina/localhost/xxx-service-test.xml]
has finished in [5,334] ms
A further data point - the access_log as defined by default under the Host is
created but stays empty:
<Host name="localhost" appBase="webapps"
unpackWARs="false" autoDeploy="true" deployOnStartup="true">
<!-- SingleSignOn valve, share authentication between web applications
Documentation at: /docs/config/valve.html -->
<!--
<Valve className="org.apache.catalina.authenticator.SingleSignOn" />
-->
<!-- Access log processes all example.
Documentation at: /docs/config/valve.html
Note: The pattern used is equivalent to using pattern="common" -->
<Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve"
directory="logs"
prefix="localhost_access_log" suffix=".txt"
pattern="%h %l %u %t "%r" %s %b" />
</Host>
In summary, the client hits tomcat, tomcat returns 404 on the request, and
there is no trace in the access logfile that the client was ever there.
Anyone seen behaviour like this before?
Regards,
Graham
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