Problems with Startup of VIVO 1.9

Sarbajit Dutta

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Sep 22, 2016, 12:31:01 PM9/22/16

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Hi,

I am getting the following error when I start tomcat.

2016-09-22 12:27:21,301 ERROR [StartupStatus] From ApplicationSetup: Failed to initialize the Application.

java.lang.IllegalStateException: Can't find a value for the Vitro home directory. Looked in JNDI environment at 'java:comp/env/vitro/home'. Looked for a system property named 'vitro.home'. Looked in 'WEB-INF/resources/build.properties' for 'vitro.home'.

at edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.application.VitroHomeDirectory$HomeDirectoryFinder.confirmExactlyOneResult(VitroHomeDirectory.java:160)

at edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.application.VitroHomeDirectory$HomeDirectoryFinder.<init>(VitroHomeDirectory.java:82)

at edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.application.VitroHomeDirectory.find(VitroHomeDirectory.java:27)

at edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.application.ApplicationSetup.contextInitialized(ApplicationSetup.java:45)

at edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.startup.StartupManager.initialize(StartupManager.java:179)

at edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.startup.StartupManager.contextInitialized(StartupManager.java:65)

at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:4813)

at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:5272)

at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:147)

at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$StartChild.call(ContainerBase.java:1407)

at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$StartChild.call(ContainerBase.java:1397)

at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)

at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)

at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)

at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)

How can I resolve it?

Thanks,

Sarbajit

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Sep 22, 2016, 12:35:39 PM9/22/16

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Hi Sarbajit,

I¹ve seen this too. The workaround is the create a file at
"webapp/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/resources/build.properties² with the
contents:

vitro.home = /path/to/your/vitro/home

I would be curious to know what needs to happen to resolve this and not
have to use the workaround.

Ted

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Benjamin Gross

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Sep 22, 2016, 12:46:00 PM9/22/16

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Are you adding context elements to Tomcat?

https://groups.google.com/d/topic/vivo-tech/qxg1X_IcQx8/discussion

I got around this by adding the vitro/home path as an environmental variable within the Tomcat config context elements like so:

<Environment

type="java.lang.String"

name="vitro/home"

value="/usr/local/vivo/home" override="true”/>

Really, I should probably just remove the context elements from server.xml…

Benjamin

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Sarbajit Dutta

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Sep 22, 2016, 2:16:37 PM9/22/16

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Hi Ted,

Yes I also did the same in order to resolve it. But my question the error did not come up when I deployed it to my local machine.

It came up now when I deployed it to our staging server. I am curious to know can this be resolved internally without creating a file in Tomcat webapps since that would mean whenever I freshly deploy the webapp I have to create the file.

Thanks,

Sarbajit

Sarbajit Dutta

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Sep 22, 2016, 2:39:17 PM9/22/16

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Hi Benjamin,

I checked in webapp in installer project and it had context.xml and was deployed to tomcat with that. But still the error came up. I added the stanza you mentioned to server.xml and removed build.properties from WEB-INF/resources and it worked.

Is there any way to make this work without adding the <Environment> stanza to server.xml?

Thanks,

Sarbajit

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Graham Triggs

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Sep 22, 2016, 3:46:34 PM9/22/16

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Hi,

There is something about the configuration of your staging Tomcat that is preventing it from reading the META-INF/context.xml

Maybe there was another, partially created context configuration in the server that was overriding it?

See the Tomcat documentation for the various places that it can read a context from - and check the staging server for the locations that it mentions:

https://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-8.0-doc/config/context.html#Defining_a_context

Regards,

G

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Hi,

I am getting the following error.

FATAL: ApplicationSetup

This is asking for vitro.home directory but VIVO 10.1 does not having vitro folder. So what path I should write in <Environment> tag

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Gross, Benjamin

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Sep 10, 2018, 7:52:47 AM9/10/18

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Hi,

You should write the vivo home directory path in the <Environment> tag if you go that route. See the example here:

<Environment

type="java.lang.String"

name="vitro/home"

value="/usr/local/vivo/home" override="true”/>

Replace /usr/local/vivo/home with the actual location of the VIVO home directory if it is different.

Benjamin

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YASHASVEE SHUKLA

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Thankyou for your reply.

I have replaced the actual location of vivo home but same error occurs.

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